Networking + programming

l0p3n · 01-19-2014, 03:46 PM

What are some jobs that involve both networking and programming?

rtmistler · 01-20-2014, 09:11 AM

Writing software for network devices.
Writing software for network enabled applications.
Testing software for either of the above.

Software could be anything from: assembly code, to formal languages, or scripting languages.

You asked a very open and very general question there by the way. Be more specific if you get answers which aren't what you were expecting.

baldy3105 · 01-20-2014, 02:14 PM

I use perl quite a lot for working with network device configs on a large scale.

anomie · 01-21-2014, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by l0p3n

What are some jobs that involve both networking and programming?

I play a "dev ops" role (among a few others) for a large public organization. We have a core networking group, but I still am responsible for planning, configuration, documentation, the bulk of troubleshooting, packet filtering, et al. And I write / maintain a lot of our backend infrastructure (Perl, Javascript/Node.js, Bourne shell, some Java and C, and a couple painful legacy mainframe languages).

So add "dev ops" (or whatever they're calling it now) to your list.

Habitual · 01-21-2014, 05:15 PM

It's funny, I can literally good peoples' questions and get decent hits:
Your next job may be 'network programmer': What you'll need to know