William Herrin wrote on 21/07/2020 20:21:
This is happening a lot in the big shops like Amazon that can afford to employ software developers to write purpose-built network code.
IOW, it works if you have a large and homogeneous enough network with a sufficiently narrowly product portfolio that you can justify the cost of getting enough programming skill to make the cost/benefit ratio work.
Some networks are like this; many aren't. In fairness, most networks would benefit from some degree of automation. Nick
