 She's already called a character. Did you just call me a character? No, yeah, you're good, yeah, yeah. She's a cube. I thought it was normal. No, you're good. Good to see you again, happy new year. Happy new year, good to see you. Keep alumni, so, thanks for coming. I know you got to go real quick. I do, I got to speak and run. Just a couple quick comments, obviously at VMworld, it's on SiliconANGLE TV, great interview with Jay Shree around, in-depth deep dive, rapid fire questions, the good stuff, but here we got a quick sound bite. Node.js really talks about, you know, IO, real-time web, developer community's robust. That's the application side of the business. Applications exploding, front-end developers need to get a little smarter and do a little more back-end capabilities. It does that. Computers, smartphones are all CPUs growing more power, but the network. Yeah. It's the network. Behind the scenes. It's just CPIP, it's all that magic and it needs to be kind of rethought through and you guys are doing that. What's your stance with the Node.js community? Share with us your views, networking, speed. Yeah, I'm excited to be here because I think we're turning networking upside down, right? If you look at most of what we did the last two decades in networking, it was connect the dots. And now, to your point, we're really connecting applications and tuning the applications better to the network and better to the devices, which is a different way of looking at the whole problem because we have to better now understand the behavior of the applications and make the network more application-aware and vice versa. So that's a very different way. Now you add to that the fact that the enterprise IT is really changing from a cost center to the buzzword, the cloud, but really there's the tick cloud for financials, there's the web 2.0 cloud, then there's the actual cloud providers, the public providers. And so there are really different forms of private, public and hybrid clouds emerging. And I'm proud to say that Arista's smack in the middle of these exciting technologies and it's good to be back with you again. I can say I've seen some of the most emerging companies in the cloud and I've seen stacks of your boxes and I know they're not cheap. So the smart money's buying Arista right now. Cost effective. So cost effective, not inexpensive, very valuable, but the smart money's buying Arista, so why? Why is Arista so there and others aren't relative to the making the network go faster for the IO intensive infrastructure? I think the secret crown jewel in Arista is not just that we're high performance transactions and low latencies, lower power, low footprint and all of the good stuff, but really our software, the extensible OS. When you don't build a software ground up with the automatic self-feeling and resilience and open APIs that you can tune the applications, then you really build a closed system and it's difficult to make that agile for different environments. So I think the excitement in our platform is not just the feeds and speeds, but really powering this with the right software enablement. So I saw you talking to Theo in there and who's got an opinion about what's going on in the marketplace. Theo's been trying to buy our boxes and apparently we didn't respond. I got to fix that. But you know the word here has been an abstraction layer. Abstractions and abstracting away complexities. You're not a stranger to this notion of abstracting away complexities in the networking business. What should these developers be thinking about when they hear the word abstraction? I think one of the key pieces of an abstraction layer really depends on how you build a software to deal with state. For example, you can have in a networking element, you can have thousands of agents and if they all have to interact with each other through message passing or conventional methods, you have single points of choke and that's a real issue. But if in fact you have like we do with our software, a system database that's really machine generated and is state oriented and can understand the interaction between everyone and everything, there's the layer of abstraction right there because you can have any to any abstraction in a very simple yet scalable fashion. And this can apply to 10 nodes, 100 nodes, 1000 nodes, 10,000 nodes. So, what's your take of node summit, node.js? I mean, what's the vibe here? What do you, what do you feel like? That's a lot of energy. I expect a January to be sort of a slow start. It's just the beginning of the year. But I'm impressed with both the caliber, the depth of technology and the different industries that are represented. I didn't realize there's so much action and buzz going on. So I'm looking forward to being a part of it. Jay Shree, thank you very much to CEO of Arista Networks. Great company, changing the game and networking which we know needs a lot of work to keep up on the app side. This explosion of backend and real-time processing. Thank you for coming on theCUBE. I know you got to go and do your talk. Great to see you again. Always a pleasure. Thank you, John. We'll see you in the future. We'll be right back with more interviews and five minutes.