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It is time to wish everybody happy holidays and do annual reflection of 2025. Career and professional development This blog has started to support my CCIE studies. Surprising it is, but I am still pursuing the title.  With almost 20 years in networking I still think that CCIE has some value, at least as a long-term goal. This December I passed 305-401 ENCOR and started 1.1 blueprint with INE subscription. I keep INE for the third year now and happy with their materials and lab setup. To prove my new title I did some research and studies on what it is to be a Technical Architect. Among others I took a PM and BA foundation trainings, passed Juniper Associate Design test. Lot of "buzz technology" trainings were taken: Cisco Infrastructure for AI, advanced prompting, Cisco Security solutions, etc. It's always good to keep up with the market, I don't regret any minute spent on those. Project-wise I had a good one of integrating on-premises routing / Azure cloud routing / C...