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• Not So Easy ZTP Server: But Hey, It Works! applies a Zero Touch Provisioning approach that actually could scale and work for your Network devices, read on for some bootstrap classics like TFTP, DHCP and Linux bashery 👉

• Reducing HIP: This Meeting Could Have Been Code takes you through reducing a Firewall Request from several days to less than a few hours, and most of the work is actually about improving the process for the better rather than spackling with Jira and SNOW tickets; this is what every NetEng process needs to become 🎯

• Nautobot - Palo Alto how to keep up with environment? - Part 1 is part of a series looking at how you can integrate Panorama and PAN-OS into your Nautobot (or NetBox, with some API tweaking) Source of Truth and start to enrich the alarm, inventory and general Firewall Management for your own good 👍

• VXLAN as Code: Why I Built a Two-Day Workshop Around It is a teaser for a free online 2-day course about implementing VXLAN via IaC and is well worth a go if you’re playing with VXLAN, EVPN, Cisco ACI or even Cisco NDFC and want to get used to the modern approach under the hood 🔧

• Virtual WAN Is Not Required For SD-WAN explores Azure vWAN and related concepts in detail, and covers when you can DIY it without vWAN and with a bunch of VPC spanners and IPsec glue, and when you probably should vWAN it instead 🪄

• Tuning a DWDM optic. What does it mean? and do you really need a prism cube of light and pack of Crayola to do it properly? Probably not, but err… “Hello? Yeah the SFP slot? Yeah, knackered mate - green crayon is jammed in and won’t come out…” 🌈

• How far can you go with IX Route Servers only? do you really need direct IXP Peers anyway? Read on and see what you think 🌐

• Notes on Network Signal Congestion Control goes deep on topics like TCP congestion control, BDP, window sizing, Multipath, ECN and has the maths to back it up 🧮

• PC Tools - Detecting Wi-Fi Roaming on the Client During Zoom/Teams/WebEx Calls is invaluable if most of the “Wireless is down!” problems at $work actually smell a lot more like “teams.exe sucks”, Wi-Fi is nearly always an End User Device problem 🛜

Book Club 📚

• AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou

• Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir

• DDoS: Understanding Real-Life Attacks and Mitigation Strategies by Stefan Behte

• Network Engineer Toolkit - 22 Production Templates for ISP & Data Center Engineers

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 15h 30m)

• Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 16h 30m)

• Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)

• Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)

• Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
  (Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)

🪚 Tools

• SShiD: Covert Communication via SSID Beacons
  (Wireless, Hacking, 802.11)

• Google Stitch: Frontend (Web/Mobile App) Vibe Mocks
  (HTML, Mobile, Vibe Coding)

• Codeberg: GitHub alternative
  (DevOps, Git, GitLab)

🎓 Learning

• POV: Your Life as Every Tech Company Rank
  (Video, 20 mins, Career)

• Modular Micro-Reactors - The Future of Nuclear Energy [for Data Centers]?
  (Video, 20 mins, Power)

• CS615 - System Administration
  (Course, 13 weeks, SRE)

Hiring 💼

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇮🇪 Lead SRE Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Senior NetOps Engineer @ Bumble, UK, London

• 🇺🇸 Network Security Engineering Manager @ Barclays, USA, Whippany, NJ

• 🇵🇹 Senior NetDevOps Engineer @ Expleo Group, Portugal, Porto

• 🇮🇳 Network Engineer @ Verizon, India, Telangana

• …and over 230 more jobs at the Reload in 10 Network Engineer Jobs Board

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NotEng 🤔

• Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity) has some absolute solid gold, especially reset after you accidentally cat’d the binary file and not the log file for it… 😔

• Avoiding a Culture of Emergencies hits hard especially if you’ve worked in this chaotic culture where everybody seems to be turning 9-5 into 999 (or 911 for our American cousins) all the damn time 🚨

• Context Hub is a way of version controlling, managing and feeding your documentation (maybe Network Docs, HLD, LLD, Standards…) into your AI LLM of choice to start automating some of the documentation toil out of your life ✍️

• From Engineer to Architect - It’s much more than pretty diagrams because learning how draw.io works is only a small part of the transition from the what to the why in the Network landscape sky ⭐️

• Why working harder stops working because at some level the next step isn’t known to the person paying you, and that’s the point - you’re paid to figure it out, not to draw it out 🤔

• Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase lets you slice your time “in half” in a world of AI-generated code and time-deprived living 👀

• Career Decisions If You Take AGI Seriously goes down both paths of what might happen if AGI comes true, with practical advice either side and a mental model to work out where we are in that hype cycle, if at all 🔖

• Self-taught people often don’t realize it, but psychology says the way they solve problems is fundamentally different from most people reminds us that learning how to code HTML in FrontPage Express was and always remains, a bad, bad move 🥸

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• Network Automation Community Exchange, London, 21 April 2026

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 13 May 2026

• CPH Network Meetup, Copenhagen, 2 October 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• TORNOG, Toronto, 13 April 2026

• FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026

• SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026

• AI Networking Summit, Dallas, 13 - 14 May 2026

• RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026

• Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026

• AutoCon 5, Munich, 8 - 12 June 2026

• NetUK 3, London, 6 - 7 July 2026

• AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026

• BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026

• AI Networking Summit, New York, 28 - 29 October, 2026

• Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026

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Industry 🏭

• AI promised supreme productivity, but it’s actually straining workloads for employees - time spent emailing has doubled, and focused work sessions fell by 9% could definitely never have been predicted by those of us who have worked for one of the other eleven billion non-San Francisco-area Tech Companies 😒

• ProbeNet Live: Run Network Measurements from 150+ Countries from the brilliant people at IPinfo to track geolocation changes, privacy detection, IP stability and more 👏

• Airtel traffic to Europe faces intermittent disruptions following cable cuts is probably telling you something you may already have guessed thanks to a little ongoing event in the Middle East 😢

• The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis managed to spook the Markets and make stock prices actually change, regardless of what you think about it’s view on a future with AI everywhere 😦

• User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller - security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds but luckily doesn’t affect old Henry Hoover, clearly the original - and best - vacuum cleaner available today (cheque’s in the post, Numatic, right?) 🧹

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NetEng 🔧

• Wirewiki is like Google Dig, BGP.tools and a few other useful Internet infrastructure tools all rolled into one slick, beautiful UI; try it 🥰

• Abyssal Link is a game that lets you play the role of submarine cable layer and see if you can do a better job than the big Internet pipe haulers out there 🎮

• Running Your Own AS: Going Multi-Homed with iBGP and three Transits essentially covers how to make your own ISP using GRE tunnels, BGP, Linux, Vultr and a bunch more duct tape to get into the Default Free Zone (DFZ) 🔎

• F5 configuration with Infrahub and Kriten briefly covers using these tools together to make Network Automation of F5 Load Balancers easier, with links and screenshots for inspiration 🚀

• FortiGate MCP Server is a production-ready Model Context Protocol server to manage FortiGate firewalls, and if nothign else should get your juices flowing about use of MCP to interface with your Network, Security, Proxy and other middleboxes for daily toil reduction 🤔

• 6 days of netclaw – by netclaw is the Network Engineering-fork of OpenClaw self-documenting all the ways it’s going to augment CCNPs in their jobs with daily Network Engineering activities; careful now, the AI is learning from…. the AI? 🤖

• Stop Guessing: A Layered Wi-Fi Troubleshooting Methodology applies the OSI Model to 802.11 for - and we can’t believe we’re about to type this - for… good? Wait, we need a lie down… 🛜

• The Collapsed Edge: Simulating a BGP WAN Handoff on a Single Device is a handy technique to simulate WAN and Carriers in your Labs without actually bridging to them 🧪

Book Club 📚

• AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou

• Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 15h 30m)

• Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 16h 30m)

• Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)

• Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)

• Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
  (Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)

🪚 Tools

• Wirewiki: Explore internet infrastructure
  (Internet, DNS, BGP)

• BadgerWiFi-Tools: Desktop automation for Ekahau reporting workflows
  (Wireless, Heatmap, Ekahau)

• Cloudflare Radar Network Quality Test
  (Internet, Speed Test, ISP)

• Models.dev: An open-source database of AI Models
  (AI, LLM, Benchmarks)

🎓 Learning

• PP098: What Goes On Inside a Firewall?
  (Podcast, 1 hour, Network Security)

• Can AI actually understand networking?
  (Video, 20 mins, AI LLMs)

• Speed Up Resolution Using SVCB and HTTPS Records
  (Video, 7 mins, DNS)

Hiring 💼

📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇦🇺 Staff Network Engineer @ ServiceNow, Australia, Millers Point, NSW

• 🇧🇬 IP Network Automation Engineer @ Swisscom, Bulgaria, Krivodol

• 🇩🇪 Network Engineer @ firstcolo GmbH, Germany, Frankfurt

• 🇮🇳 Principal Network Engineer @ London Stock Exchange Group, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ NetApp, Ireland, Cork

• 🇵🇱 Network Engineer @ Euroclear, Poland, Warsaw

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, UK, Harrogate

• 🇺🇸 Principal AI Network Engineer @ NVIDIA, USA, Santa Clara, CA

• 🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Visa, USA, Ashburn, VA

• 🇺🇸 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ JP Morgan, USA, New York, NY

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NotEng 🤔

• Packet Pushers 2026 Salary Survey is here, see how you rank in areas like pay, work-life balance, certification and training and generally against your Networking peers 🎩

• Two Beliefs About Coding Agents wraps what we’ve thought for a while, and it’s not the obvious “dey took er jerbs” rhetoric you’ll see elsewhere 🧑‍🏫

• The Last Gasps of the Rent Seeking Class has a differing take on what a world with reduced friction might look like, and it’s not exactly what you might think; some friction is actually good for you, now hush up and eat your Weetabix 🥣

• Kafka at the low end: how bad can it get? reminds you that, just like getting served at a bar, the answer to every problem does not have to be queuing 🍻

• Centralized vs. Decentralized: The Best (and worst) of Both Worlds contrasts the two approaches to networking in the context of the blockchain, but there’s some learnings for us as Internet pipe plumbers there too 🔧

• Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe; in a world of uncertainty, the old advice is also likely no longer true - if everyone else is in chaos, perhaps you can exploit that for good 💼

• Working More, Not Less is the natural result of what happens when the rising AI tide lifts all coding boats; rate of shipping slop isn’t going to be the edge in the new world 👀

• How I Use Claude Code gives a prescriptive guide in getting the best out of Anthropic’s coding companion, with actionable steps that could just as easily be applied to NetOps or Network Engineering 😦

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 13 May 2026

• CPH Network Meetup, Copenhagen, 2 October 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026

• Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026

• TORNOG, Toronto, 13 April 2026

• FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026

• SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026

• AI Networking Summit, Dallas, 13 - 14 May 2026

• RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026

• Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026

• AutoCon 5, Munich, 8 - 12 June 2026

• NetUK 3, London, 6 - 7 July 2026

• AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026

• BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026

• AI Networking Summit, New York, 28 - 29 October, 2026

• Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026

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Industry 🏭

• New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises but it’s not really as bad as you think unless you mind your neighbour (not the brick house one, the Wi-Fi client one) snitching on you a bit 🕵️‍♀️

• Data centre builder Equinix to create 200 jobs with €590m investment in Louth which definitely isn’t the Irish version of Slough-th, we promise 🏭

• The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up after 37 years on the sea floor - TAT-8 to be removed after entering service in 1988, broke in 2002 nearly brings a tear to the eye, wonder if the fish will notice when it’s gone 🐟

• Amazon: AI-assisted hacker breached 600 Fortinet firewalls in 5 weeks, which would have been 2 weeks, but the LLM wasted a solid 3 weeks trying to do the nursery run and remind AI Junior to pack his lunch box already 🌮

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NetEng 🔧

• Monitoring AS-SETs and why they matter but not that one that involves Confederation of ASNs, the other one you wrangle with in your IRR, RIPE and ARIN portals to advertise prefixes to the Interwebs 🌎

• IPv6 Adoption in 2026 is growing way, way more than you think; if you haven’t yet got a plan on IPv6, you’re quick to becoming as behind as by not using the letters “A” and “I” in every second sentence you type for money 📈

• Demystifying VASI - It’s easier than you think! and we’re ashamed to admit, were not even aware there was a way of getting Prefixes between tables without Route Replication or Route Leaking 🚰

• Don’t Trust Packet Captures on Firewalls always verify, and in many cases have a TAP network in place to SPAN that stuff to for a second opinion 🤔

• What’s The Deal With Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance? and should you even bother learning about it or will you even end up deploying it in production anytime soon? 💡

• Wireless PCAP I/O Graph Analyzer shows the power of vibe coding for a specific issue, and how it can quickly get you from 0 to problem solved with not too much effort; as long as you know the domain at hand 🦾

• Git in Practice - Version Control For Network Engineers is a sublime, simple and yet detailed walkthrough of how to apply to magic of Git to your NetEng change, config and implementation workflows 🎛️

• GTP-U Decapsulation: Isolating Subscriber Traffic in Mobile Networks is a different kind of networking from the IP/Ethernet stack you might be used to; if you’ve heard about 3GPP and LTE and wondered what the difference is, it’s this ☎️

Book Club 📚

• AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou

• Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 15h 30m)

• Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 16h 30m)

• Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)

• Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)

• Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
  (Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)

🪚 Tools

• NetClaw: A CCIE-level AI network engineering coworker
  (MCP, OpenClaw, AIOps)

🎓 Learning

• The BGP Clock and the BGP Observatory: Hunting Stuck Routes​
  (Video, 30 mins, BGP)

• Cisco AI Summit: The AI Factory
  (Video, 45 mins, NVIDIA x Cisco)

• Cisco AI summit: Enterprise and AI
  (Video, 30 mins, Anthropic x Cisco)

• Redefining Netflix BGP Architecture
  (Video, 45 mins, VoD)

Hiring 💼

📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇦🇺 Network Implementation Engineer @ Google, Australia, Sydney

• 🇩🇪 Network Engineer @ Syserso Networks, Germany, Hanover

• 🇮🇳 Network AI Delivery Manager @ Ford Motor, India, Chennai

• 🇮🇪 Junior Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇳🇱 Network Engineer @ Booking.com, Netherlands, Amsterdam

• 🇵🇱 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Poland, Warsaw

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Waymo, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Gymshark, UK, Birmingham

• 🇺🇸 Director of Network Planning @ JP Morgan, USA, NJ/TX

• 🇺🇸 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Avangrid, USA, Boston, MA

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NotEng 🤔

• Post the Wrong Answer: Why Your First Draft Should Be Imperfect is both an old XKCD favourite and a timeless reminder that’s it’s faster to get right by being wrong and waiting to be corrected 🤬

• Agentic anxiety brings FOMO to coding and development, but actually in a good way, well maybe - as long as you don’t want to be left behind 🏃‍♂️

• Spiderman Phishing Kit Mimics Top European Banks With A Few Clicks is a timely reminder that AI accelerates both sides of the fence; a rising tide lifts all boats, even the annoying pirate ones that want to watch the world burn 🏴‍☠️

• Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI presumably they don’t listen to their own streams while awaiting the AI to compile the PR, otherwise that’s some sort of recursive loop? 🔂

• Something Big Is Happening and you know it’s true whether you want to admit it or not; head up, out the sand, embrace it all, because it’s coming AI-nyway, so you may as well benefit from it 💪

• Why I Think Curiosity is an Important Trait for Engineers because the learning never really stops, it just changes pace, place and how much you’re willing to stay in the race 🥇

• A spoiler for the future - Bitcoin is over 12 years old but is playing out depressingly close to this prediction 🔮

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

  • NetBCN March 2026, Barcelona, 4 March 2026

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 20 May 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026

• Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026

• FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026

• SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026

• RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026

• Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026

• AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026

• BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026

• Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026

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Industry 🏭

• Rev Up to Recert: GenAI - From AI Possibilities to Real-World Impact gives you 16 Cisco Continuing Education (CE) credits towards a CCNA or CCNP, is entirely free and runs until Mar 26 2026 so go, go, go! 🎓

• Cisco launches AI networking chip to compete with Nvidia and Broadcom was a slightly left-field move, but then again, there’s a reason the 800-pound gorilla Cisco just keeps getting that slow, steady growth 🦍

• How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage answers the chicken and egg DNS conundrum with a bang 💥

• Adopting IPv6 to your existing Amazon VPC walks through how to retrofit v6 into your v4-”only” AWS VPC Network topologies with worked examples to follow 👌

• CVE-2026-24061 reminds you that if you’re still using Telnet to do stuff, there’s a good chance you’re stuffing do wrong 😑

• Openreach Publish UK Pilot Pricing for FTTP Broadband Speeds to 8500Mbps faster to your house than you likely get to your workplace for probably a fraction of the cost 💸

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NetEng 🔧

• Cisco is Bringing Lossless AI Networking to the Enterprise and it’s definitely not FCoE all over again, well maybe a teensy little bit - but maybe they’ll actually win this time 💪

• Why Adding More Access Points Is Breaking Your Wi-Fi! because as Wi-Fi Miyagi says (other than being named after a type of antenna): less is more ☯️

• Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires is kinda like powerline networking, but instead taking advantage of the inter-room cabling most UK houses already have in place doing not much these days 📞

• Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan? and who even went that deep DNS diving to find out 🤿

• Providing zone transfers directly from Netbox DNS is a novel way of hooking NetBox into other AXFR flows, maybe for pDNS mitigation or as a BCP plan for your DNS estate 🤔

• The Future of the Control and Management Plane takes you on a possible journey of abstraction that starts with SDN, goes via IaC and you’ll never guess which two-letter phrase it ends with… 🦾

• Cable cuts, storms, and DNS: a look at Internet disruptions in Q4 2025 as there were rather a lot, rather a lot more, rather a lot bigger 🎬

• Shift Change Wi‑Fi Failures: Sticky Clients, Authentication Storms and Lessons Learned is definitely a problem you could never get to the bottom of on your 802.11 networks, but now you maybe can 🛜

Book Club 📚

• AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou

• Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)

• Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)

• Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
  (Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)

🪚 Tools

• BGP AI Agent
  (BGP, AIOps, IXP)

• prefixd Automated DDoS Mitigation
  (BGP, FlowSpec, DDoS)

• Cloudflare Radar
  (Internet, IX, Transit)

• Beszel lightweight server monitoring platform
  (Docker, o11y, NMS)

🎓 Learning

• Build Intelligent Networks with AI
  (Tutorial, 6 hours, AI for Networks)

• The Hidden Risks of Staying in the Wrong Job
  (Video, 1 hour, Career Advice)

• Agentic ProbLLMs: Exploiting AI Computer-Use and Coding Agents
  (Video, 1 hour, AI)

Hiring 💼

📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇩🇪 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Deutsche Borse, Germany, Frankfurt

• 🇭🇰 Network Engineer @ QRT, Hong Kong

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ FIS, India, Bangarde

• 🇮🇳 Principal Network Engineer @ London Stock Exchange Group, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇳🇱 Senior Staff Network Engineer @ Zscaler, Netherlands, Remote

• 🇵🇱 Senior Enterprise Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Poland, Warsaw

• 🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ KLA, Singapore

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Kraken, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ University of Manchester, UK, Manchester

• 🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ First Commonwealth, USA, Allentown, PA

• 🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ SpaceX, USA, Starbase, TX

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NotEng 🤔

• I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren’t Allowed and saw things no human should ever have to see (for those of you living under a crab-shaped rock, Moltbot == OpenClaw == Clawdbot) 🦀

• Iran blocked the Internet, then butchered its protestors. What’s the lesson for activists? and how exactly did they manage to cut off the resilient infrastructure that is the Internet in the region ✂️

• AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals, so get writing up your docs and knowledge into Markdown so you can take advantage of the AI wave yourself ⬇️

• Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? can never be unseen once it’s seen, just like wondering why the tea-towel holder looks like a cat’s… you’re welcome 🐈

• My time at Amazon, Part I gives a big insight into the Levels and culture within Amazon, and speculates why there is no L9 engineer in the phonebook ☎️

• He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive will have you hooked, learning about the Golden Triangle and considering another angle to rapid Internet provision for “office workers” 🏢

• Stop Laughing at AI: How It’s Actually Coming for Network Jobs (and What to Do About It) isn’t a shock piece, but has a scary underlying message; best get our learning hats on 🎓

• Docs as Code: The Best Guide for Technical Writers gives tips and tricks on mastering Markdown, and the reasons that Documentation as Code is a surefire productivity hack in the age of AI Ops 🚤

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

  • NetBCN March 2026, Barcelona, 26 March 2026

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 20 May 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

• Cisco Live EMEA, Amsterdam, 9 - 13 February 2026

• IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026

• Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026

• FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026

• SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026

• RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026

• Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026

• AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026

• BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026

• Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026

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Industry 🏭

• Why is Slough full of data centres? and for those of you not in the UK, find out exactly where most of the Equinix LDx estate actually is in relation to the capital 📍

• AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say because sadly, AIOps goes both ways - soon it’ll just be AI fighting AI for AI to make money for other AI… 🤖

• Google takes down an invisible network that was secretly using your phone’s internet and it’s not really to do with Android either 👿

• Colt UK Trial 800Gbps Multi-Core Fibre Cable on Metro Optical Network in London, so get ready for conf t → interface EightHunGigEthernet → shake the wrist off… ⌚️

• Taara internet is 10 to 100 times faster than Starlink and cheaper than fiber and is powered by light and lasers rather than LEO or fibre 🔴

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• I Built a RAG System That Actually Understands Cisco Docs. Here’s What I Learned especially when it comes to knowing stuff like FHRP, VRRP and HSRP are all pretty much the same thing (don’t write to us, we’ll pre-empt it to the bin…) and understanding the many a.k.a’s of the Networking world 📕

• RoCE networks for distributed AI training at scale expands on real-world deployments of AI Fabrics in Meta with useful details about the speeds, feeds and some characteristics of their setup 🚀

• Building the Future of Network Automation: RALPH, GAIT, and pyATS in Harmony uses Ralph’s looping construct to great affect, with git for version control and “go back in time” capability, it’s an unbeatable way of adding AI magic to your NetOps 🤖

• A Traffic Engineering Process Perspective looks at the process mechanics and levers behind TE and how to think about which types of traffic might, and might not, be good candidates to TE tunnel vs those that are better left alone 💡

• Rethinking Infrastructure Operations in the Age of AI has some ideas about AIOps in NetOps you might want to consider 🦾

• Subnet peering and ExpressRoute works a little differently than you might expect or be able to AI your way out of, dig in and learn more if you’re deep in the Azure network space ☁️

• Things I Would Do Differently If I Designed an NSX Platform Today didn’t include our hot take of “don’t”, but that’s probably for the best ⛈️

• From InfiniBand to Ultra Ethernet Why AI Networks Had to Rethink RDMA on Ethernet…. because Ethernet. Always. Wins. Always 🛜

Book Club 📚

• AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou

• Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)

• Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
  (Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)

• Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
  (Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)

🪚 Tools

• IPv6 Army IPv6 Connectivity Test
  (IPv6, Client, Benchmarking)

• E3d.ai 3D Blockchain Visualiser
  (Blockchain, Web 3.0, Cryptocurrency)

• Transitive Trust Checker
  (DNS, ASNs, Web of Trust)

• difftastic Code Comparer
  (Diff, Coding, Semantics)

• Seasonal IPv4 Subnet Calculator
  (IPv4, CIDR, RFCs)

🎓 Learning

• I Worked At A Google Data Center: What I Saw Will Shock You
  (Video, 15 mins, Socioeconomics)

• RRM Unplugged
  (Video, 15 mins, Wireless)

• Success Is Hard Until You Build Systems Like This
  (Video, 25 Mins, Life Skills)

Hiring 💼

📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇧🇷 NetDevOps Engineer @ Netcracker, Brazil, Sao Paulo

• 🇨🇦 Lead Network Engineer @ McKesson, Canada, Ontario

• 🇫🇷 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ QRT, France, Paris

• 🇩🇪 Cloud Network Engineer @ Hannover Re, Germany, Hanover

• 🇮🇳 NetDevOps Engineer @ Deutsche Bank, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Dublin City University, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ System C, UK, Liverpool

• 🇺🇸Network Engineer @ Nutanix, USA, San Jose, CA

• 🇺🇸 NetDevOps Engineer @ Vultr, USA, Remote

• 🇺🇸 Junior Network Operations Engineer @ Vultr, USA, Remote

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• I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine) is a different way of getting “remote access” to your Container estate ⛽️

• AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage goes into detail about what Cory Doctorow thinks will happen when - not if - the AI bubble bursts 🍾

• Step-by-step guide to get Ralph working and shipping code is the guide you need to know if you want to combine the power of iteration with vibe coding for AI that codes while you sleep 😴

• The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network because it’s just so, so, so big; thanks a bunch, IoT 🔌

• Diataxis is a a systematic approach to technical documentation authoring, and is easy to follow and memorise when writing new documentation for your next Networking adventure 📝

• Power Network Tycoon is a power grid simulation and strategy game and is a great way to destress from the other kind of Networking you do in your day job 🔋

• The CQS (Command Query Separation) Design Principle is quick but powerful when it comes to coding for Network Engineering purposes, put this in your mental shelf next to DRY 😎

• Meet the ‘empowered non-complier’: A certain kind of valuable worker who flouts return to office whenever they feel like it, and when they do, they might be surprised to find themselves connected at 10 Mbps, Half Duplex all of a sudden… 😇

• The Math of Why You Can’t Focus at Work is because of constant. Context. Switching. Back. And. Forth. And. Back. And. Wait, what were we doing again? 🤨

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

  • NetBCN March 2026, Barcelona, 26 March 2026

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 5 February 2026

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 20 May 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026

• NANOG, San Francisco, 2 - 4 February 2026

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

• Cisco Live EMEA, Amsterdam, 9 - 13 February 2026

• IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026

• Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026

• FutureNet World 2026, London, 21 - 22 April 2026

• SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026

• RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026

• Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026

• AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026

• BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026

• Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026

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Industry 🏭

• Musk’s Starlink offers cheaper broadband than BT after UK price cuts so much so we might have to get up on the roof and have a look to see if it’s cheaper, will miss than sub-10 ms latency though… 🛰️

• 4G mobile phone coverage on Tube reaches halfway stage - with roll-out to be completed by end of year and it’s mostly run by Boldyn Networks in case you were wondering why they’re hiring 🤙

• Google to build subsea cables in Papua New Guinea under Australia defence treaty bringing more connectivity to the bottom-right side of the world map (unless they flip it down under too?) 🌏

• Faster than Starlink and cheaper than fiber: the technology shaking up the web is frikkin lasers man, lasers all over everywhere, pew, pew 🔫

• Iran Goes Dark as Government Cuts Itself Off from Internet is a sign of troubling times indeed when the ASNs go dark 😢

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NetEng 🔧

• Why AI Networks Fail (Even With Enough Bandwidth) goes into Networks for AI (AI Fabrics) and why the mouse versus elephant flow looks a bit different on them to traditional Ethernet or FC Storage networks 🔎

• Building an IPv6 Subnet Planner with AI Assistance combines the two things we love - Vibe Coding and Networking - to combat one thing we don’t - IPv6 subnetting 👊

• RDMA — The Network Powerhouse of an AI Fabric (For Now Anyway) which is finally displacing InfiniBand (y’know, the Storage thing that isn’t Fibre Channel?) from being that “other Ethernet” sat humming away on your Data Centre LUNS, WWNs and SANs… but now it’s for AI instead 🦿

• Hunting For North Korean Fiber Optic Cables is a fascinating look into uncharted parts of the Internet that most don’t know about 🇰🇵

• CDN Up and Running - Building a CDN from Scratch does exactly that, with code examples and screenshots to help you build your own competitor to Cloudflare, Bunny CDN or Akamai 📦

• NetBox DNS is a NetBox plugin for managing DNS data and it’s a pretty great integration from the DCIM world into the often opaque DNS Management world ☎️

• Why Routing Protocol Choice Still Matters even in a world of AI and where everything feels “done”, sometimes it can be a good time to evaluate if what IS good IS actually good…IGRP BGP OSPF (too obvious?) 😆

Book Club 📚

• Full Stack Network Automation: Network Automation with Python, Django, SQLite & Docker - from fundamentals to deployment

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  (Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)

🪚 Tools

• Network Monitor (FastAPI, React, Celery, PostgreSQL)
  (FOSS, NMS, Observability)

• Jodies IP Subnet Calculator
  (Subnetting, IPv4, CIDR)

• LLM Stats AI Leaderboard
  (AI, LLM Models, Benchmarking)

• Visual Subnet Calculator
  (Subnetting, IPv4, CIDR)

🎓 Learning

• Infrastructure Review (CCC)
  (Video, 1 hour, Hacking)

• pyATS AI Agent: Dynamically Self-Testing Network Agent
  (Video, 30 mins, NetDevOps)

• Large Scale IPv6 Reconnaissance
  (Video, 30 mins, IPv6)

Hiring 💼

📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇦🇺 Senior Data Center Engineer @ Fastly, Australia, Melbourne

• 🇮🇳 Infrastructure Automation Engineer @ Workday, India, Pune

• 🇮🇪 Associate Network Engineer @ SMBC, Ireland, Tralee

• 🇵🇹 Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Portugal, Lisbon

• 🇬🇧 Junior Network Engineer @ SUEZ, UK, Maidenhead

• 🇬🇧 Principal Network Security Engineer @ Entrust, UK, Newbury

• 🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Gemini, USA, New York, NY

• 🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Google, USA, Thornton, CO

• 🇺🇸 NetDevOps Engineer @ Vultr, USA, Remote

• 🇺🇸 Junior Network Operations Engineer @ Vultr, USA, Remote

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NotEng 🤔

• Vibe Check: Opus 4.5 Is the Coding Model We’ve Been Waiting For especially if you thought the jump to Gemini 3 was good, Opus is really, really good for vibe coding 😎

• How good engineers write bad code at big companies is a story of misaligned incentives meets Conway’s Law - or namely, it’s hard to be great when the people and process around you are setup to be mediocre on purpose 💡

• The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data, so it might be time to dust off that Iomega Zip Drive after all (always wanted the Jaz, couldn’t afford…) 😷

• How to be creative (without taking drugs) is solid advice, but hard to follow - to do really is not to try, but to do 🥷

• AI becoming sentient is risky, but that’s not the big threat. Here’s what is… it’s the side effects that normally get you into weird and unexpected ways, which AI just might be on course for ⚡️

• 2025: The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise has some surprises, including how far behind your workplace probably isn’t and what the success rate of AI initiatives is (clue: it’s less than wiping spit on an LC connector and plugging it back in again) 💦

• Can I just check - are my emails holding me back at work?! is great advice to sometimes withhold your p’s and q’s to get rid of a mounting list of To Do’s 😤

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

• NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 5 February 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026

• NANOG, San Francisco, 2 - 4 February 2026

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

• Cisco Live EMEA, Amsterdam, 9 - 13 February 2026

• IETF 125, Shenzhen, 14 - 20 March 2026

• Upperside World Congress, Paris, 24 - 26 March 2026

• SwiNOG, Geneva, 28 April 2026

• RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026

• Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026

• BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026

• Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026

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Industry 🏭

• Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief but we reckon it’s definitely at the back of the sofa somewhere, just left of that long-lost Hi-Fi remote control 🔊

• Critical 0-Day RCE Vulnerability in Networking Devices Exposes 70,000+ Hosts including Sd-WAN appliances and some well-known Router devices 🚨

• 5 Azure Networking announcements you probably missed summarised expertly by Mr Pinto ☁️

• Oracle’s $248 Billion Rent is Another AI ‘Bombshell’ and is going to suck all the power out of the grid to power the AI to tell people that there’s not enough power in the grid 🔌

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NetEng 🔧

• How to power any 802.3bt Wi-Fi access point using standard USB-C battery pack takes a battery pack, some Sugru (yes, it was new on us too), an RJ45 lead and provides PoE on the go to an AP 🛜

• Branch Office WAN Congestion: Is it still a Valid Concern in Modern Networks? or should you just chuck more and more bandwidth at it? Read on 🫓

• Simplifying SR-TE with mesh templates uses built-un IaC-like features to make some of the Segment Routing setup a little easier and a lot more consistent ䷓

• Cisco 9800 WLC GUI Not Loading? Here’s the Real Fix and it’s easier than just hammering it and trying again or messing with your browser cache 💡

• Geolocate much? because it turns out there actually is a standard or two - RFC9092 and RFC9632 - to take control of bad GeoIP location and put the pin back where it actually belongs 📍

• Why Every ISP Should Have a PeeringDB Listing, Even If They’re Not in a Data Center and maybe even some of you Enterprise and End User organisations who run a BGP ASN or two 🌏

• Subnet peering and ExpressRoute is a slightly new way of doing things at a lower-level of granularity in Azure VNETs and SDCI than you may be used to in your Landing Zones 🛬

• 2025 Tier 1 Analysis Report covers a bunch of interesting stats from the Internet DFZ - think ASNs, Bogons, Connectivity, v6 adoption… read on for fascinating insights into the Interwebs 🕸️

Book Club 📚

• Full Stack Network Automation: Network Automation with Python, Django, SQLite & Docker - from fundamentals to deployment

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  (Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)

🪚 Tools

• pyNTM Network Traffic Modeler
  (Python, PerfMon, Benchmarking)

• nossl.sh doesn’t support a secure connection (and we like it)
  (Web, HTTP, Testing)

• DNSAudit.io DNS Checker
  (Web, DNS, Vulnerability Testing)

🎓 Learning

• Ansible roles to deploy Ubuntu servers
  (DevOps, Ansible, Orchestration)

• # Writing a good CLAUDE.md
  (DevOps, AI, Vibe Coding)

🎥 Videos, Papers, Surveys

• BGP Blackhole Survey
  (BGP, ISP, IX)

• Agentic DevOps: Will AI Replace DevOps Engineers?
  (Video, 30 mins, AI)

• Getting 1+ Tbps from an x86 server
  (Video, 30 mins, Optimisation)

Hiring 💼

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇫🇷 Network Engineer @ AXA, France, Paris

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Chevron, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇵🇹 Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Portugal, Lisbon

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Design Engineer @ Sky, UK, London

• 🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ Viasat, Australia, Remote

• 🇨🇦 Network Automation Developer @ TELUS, Canada, Edmonton

• 🇩🇪 Network Systems Engineer @ Serco, Germany, Darmstadt

• 🇮🇳 Network Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA, India, Hyderabad

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NotEng 🤔

• OWASP AI Testing Guide project is an open-source initiative that you can use to gain an insight through the attackers eyes as to how all this AI stuff hangs together, or doesn’t… 🚳

• Beads is a memory upgrade for your coding agent and while we don’t understand it enough yet, hopefully it’ll be as good as the Memory Expansion pack was on the Nintendo64 🍟

• Google’s Antigravity beats VS Code at its own game and brings some agentic tweaks to the IDE you (probably) know and love 🧑‍💻

• AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself is a long piece about how modern University is an act of paying to convert money to AI, which gets graded by an AI and converted back to Professor, and costs a small house or two in the process 🏠

• Everything’s Fake Now and can’t be enjoyed; this is why we can’t have nice things (but if you do want some, for just 5 down-payments of $9.99…) 💰

• Opus 4.5 Collapsed Six Months of Development Work Into One Week and proved value to this guy with perhaps the best surname ever given his role as a Developer 🚢

• UK Chamber Covers is where you need to go if you’ve ever wondered what’s under a manhole cover on a UK Street; some of them aren’t as obvious as the label says ☎️

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

Let us know about an Event

Industry 🏭

• A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official so those of you with Internet-facing environments might want to read up on how RSL will impact your web traffic from now on 🤖

• React2Shell flaw exploited to breach 30 orgs, 77k IP addresses vulnerable meaning any React, Vue or related Internet-facing web apps you’re responsible for are gonna get a teensy bit busier over the next few days 🔫

• 29.7 Tbps DDoS Attack Via Aisuru Botnet Breaks Internet With New World Record, and given access speeds on broadband are now shooting up above 1 Gbps, expect this to only worsen over time 📈

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NetEng 🔧

• DNS Packet Capture: DoT, DoH, DoQ, DoH3 because the D in DNS is about the only consistent thing when you look at it’s encrypted, newer equivalents 🔏

• AutoCon4 Takeaway: Flock9 Announced bringing Slurpit, Netpicker and NetBox even closer together 🍕

• MX301 Deepdive for those of you deep in the Juniper and Enterprise or Service Provider realms 🕯️

• Enterprise AP Comparison Database is the Wi-Fi comparison tool you didn’t know you needed already 🛜

• Visualizing All of the World’s Data Centers in 2025 because there’s more and more than you think you knew about; Equinix might run out of letters and numbers at this rate 🛟

• traceroute breaks the time-space continuum! breaks down some interesting behaviours seen on RTTs in a traceroute, and might leave you questioning your reliance on commands like ping in future… 🤔

• Do we need Wi-Fi 7 in our Enterprise Network? poses some questions you might have thought about back in the 512 Kbps broadband days before websites changed to download 1 TB of tracking and ad data for every useful 1 KB of data; things do change over time 🕰️

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  (Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)

🪚 Tools

• DNSMap DNS Propagation Check
  (DNS, Checker, Internet)

• CLOUDPerf Cloud Latency Check
  (Cloud, Latency, RTT)

• xDNS DNS Manager for BIND
  (DNS, BIND, Commercial)

🎓 Learning

• MIMO Gain Visualiser
  (Tool, Wi-Fi, Radio Engineering)

• Integrating Azure Route Server with Infoblox NIOS
  (Tutorial, DNS, Cloud and API)

🎥 Videos and Papers

• The DNS course for developers
  (Tutorial, DNS, DNS, DNS…)

• Modern Network o11y (Round 3)
  (Video, YouTube, 1 hour)

• Designing Network Automation at Scale
  (eBook, NetDevOps, Systems)

Hiring 💼

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🤫 Secret Subscriber-only Jobs

• 🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ A Vendor, UK, London/Remote

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ A Bank, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ A FinTech, UK, London/Hybrid

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• 🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ Viasat, Australia, Remote

• 🇨🇦 Network Automation Developer @ TELUS, Canada, Edmonton

• 🇩🇪 Network Systems Engineer @ Serco, Germany, Darmstadt

• 🇮🇳 Network Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA, India, Hyderabad

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ DXC, UK, Gloucester

• 🇨🇦 Network Engineer @ Cerebras Systems, Canada, Toronto

• 🇮🇪 Production Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ QRT, UK, London

• 🇺🇸 Zero Trust Network Engineer @ SoFi, USA, FL/NY

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• How Ireland became the weak spot in Europe’s defences especially for the Internet series of tubes that passes through it’s many and various Cloud Provider shores 🪈

• Snorting the agi with claude code gives some recipes to bring together all the settings, .md and other files to make Claude Code work for you instead of you working for it 🧘

• Coding agents have crossed a chasm and are becoming another normal part of the developer workflow, no more unusual than Merging a PR just before making a brew ☕️

• Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI applies regardless of your age, and reminds everyone what you already know; if you were that good at predicting the future, then you’d be better off using it to win the lottery already 🎟️

• Stop Coding and Start Planning surely needs to be called “vibe planning” if its ever going to take off in practice 🤖

• Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm might be a performance optimisation for some of your scripts you didn’t know you needed yet 🧨

• HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere and you know this to be HTTP/1.1 GET true if you check half the proxy logs of where your people are browsing to 🧐

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

• CHNUG, Switzerland, 4 December 2025

• LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

Let us know about an Event

Industry 🏭

• Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages might just be the alternative for you AWS people to pay-per-Gig Cloud data transfer pricing that keeps you up at night 🛌

• Arelion launches built-in SecureConnect DDoS mitigation solutions for enterprise and wholesale customers amid rising AI threats is DIA, but not as we know it, Jim 🚀

• Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 which you might have noticed, but did you want the full details, in full-full? 👗

• SilentButDeadly – Network Communication Blocker Tool That Neutralizes EDR/AV hopefully not coming to defeat some endpoint security near you soon 🦠

• Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads and academia has a lot to say for not helping to make this easier for newbie Network Admins 🎓

• Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape because patching makes perf… more patching? 🩹

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• Stop upgrading routers: enable SQM and fix your home’s real bottleneck is a reminder that QoS isn’t just for Christmas work, it’s also useful for your home FTTx and DSL broadband connections too 🎅

• Blast-Off: 3.5 Years of Starlink’s Growth (Part 2) carries on from the first part in covering the LEO giant’s stratospheric rise to planetary… yeah ok, more space puns here, but an interesting dive into how AWS does Transit and IPv6 for the service ⚡️

• Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall is finally here, so no need to jimmy your DNS lookups elsewhere just so they’re logged while the rest of your traffic goes out via Azure’s Internet 🤙

• It was MTU! Zscaler over GRE behind Palo, blocking ICMP Frag Needed because if it’s not DNS, and you’re sure it’s not DNS, and you’re definitely sure you’re sure… then it’s probably MTU or NTP 🕣

• Testing Gemini CLI for Network Troubleshooting Inside EVE-NG and a reminder that they’ve also got Google Jules which might bend to some NetDevOps needs 🐙

• Top 5 reasons why access points fail to join the WLC and none of them are “because it isn’t plugged in yet” - are you really alive if the cleaner hasn’t unplugged your AP because they thought it was a ceiling vaccum? Just us? 🤖

• Wi-Fi 7 – Multi-Link Association turbocharges everything you thought you knew about MIMO in the 802.11 world with PCAP proofs to boot 🛜

• NCAT5 LEO Satellite Video covers all the satellites in space over the course of a day; there’s a lot of dishes up there in outer space, man 🧑‍🚀

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  (Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)

🪚 Tools

• Topolograph MCP is awesome
  (AI, MCP, Visualisation)

• wifichannel tool
  (Wireless, Blog, 802.11)

• Jules - An Autonomous Coding Agent
  (AI Tool, Coding, Agentic)

• DNSPerf DNS Speed Benchmark
  (DNS, Checker, Internet)

🎓 Learning

• Communicating With the Future
  (Paper, Digital Archiving, Storage)

• Automation API software
  (Slideshow, c4o, NetDevOps)

• Network Engineers’ Introductory Guide to NCCL
  (Tutorial, AI, NVIDIA Language)

🎥 Videos and Papers

• Modern Network Observability
  (Video, 1 hr, o11y)

• How To *Think* Like A Developer (For Network Engineers)
  (Video, 10 mins, NetDevOps)

• Closed loop automation demo - HPE Juniper Networking
  (Video, 6 mins, Network Automation)

• Fighting Route Leaks at Cloudflare
  (Video, 30 mins, Internet Exchange)

Hiring 💼

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🤫 Secret Subscriber-only Jobs

• 🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ A Vendor, UK, London/Remote

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ A Bank, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ A FinTech, UK, London/Hybrid

🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇨🇦 Network Engineer @ Cerebras Systems, Canada, Toronto

• 🇩🇪 Network Automation Developer @ SAP, Germany, Berlin

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, India, Remote

• 🇮🇪 Production Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ QRT, UK, London

• 🇺🇸 Zero Trust Network Engineer @ SoFi, USA, FL/NY

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• I went from a team of over two dozen engineers to an AI-powered team of 6. Here’s my advice for engineers told to embrace AI is short, sharp and may be a telling indicator for Engineering Manager’s of the future 🏭

• Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don’t save much time… depending on what you’re doing and how well you already knew it anyway 😎

• Teach Your AI to Think Like a Senior Engineer with eight planning strategies to braindump the rules and stuff you know into the LLM, so you can go and have a coffee while it brews up some fresh code or config for you ☕️

• Forecasts of AI & Economic Growth opines on what the future economy could look like with AI, using data and stats rather than thoughts and prayers 🤔

• AI Broke Interviews but you knew this already, and in the near future will probably be travelling to interviews much more than dialling in via Teams or Zoom 🧑‍💻

• The Creator Advantage advocates for build in public, and while you may not be building a product in the SaaS sense, lots of the principles within are easily transferable to whatever you’re building at work 🤑

• AI Code Review Tool — CodeRabbit Replaces Me And I Like It because nobody likes reviewing code, not even if they wrote it 6 months ago and can’t work out what their previous self was thinking at Line 54… 🤬

• The Power of Schema: Turning Automation in Knowledge Graphs brings relationship modelling and - you guessed it - YAML - to AI-powered infrastructure management undertakings 🏓

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

  • NetBCN November 2025 Meetup, Barcelona, 27 November 2025

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

• CHNUG, Switzerland, 4 December 2025

• LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

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Industry 🏭

• Farewell to Starlink monopoly - Amazon launches Amazon Leo, its new satellite internet with more than 150 satellites already in orbit in what might be the most astute product naming ever from a company that brought you Elastic Beanstalks and Glaciers 🛰️

• Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query and in case you’ve been living under a differing CDN rock, you most probably noticed; SELECT * FROM internet THEN deny 🚫

• 29-year-old internet provider plans to cut ties with customers and it’s not one we’d heard of this side of the pond, but it seems big in the VSAT world? 📡

• BDUK Publish Q2 – Q3 2025 Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Progress Report for a view of rural and remote broadband rollout to the vast extremities of the UK isles 🏝️

• SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers and will not take Mr Bezos’ Leo offering lying down, or up, or a little more left…a bit more right… bingo, that’s the full 5 bar sync! 🛰️

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• Cisco Rev Up to Recert: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU) is giving 25 CE Credits free for 33 hours of learning until Jan 5th 2025, get in fast! 💨

• Mastering Wi-Fi Packet Captures is the beginning of a series in how to apply your Wireshark PCAP fu to the 802.11 Wi-Fi voodoo to overcome that “Wi-Fi is down” incident once and for all 🥋

• IPsec & path MTU discovery: feature or vulnerability? talks through the implications of PMTUD when tunnels are involved, and why it might not be the best idea 🗺️

• So long, and thanks for all the fish: how to escape the Linux networking stack goes deep on how Cloudflare wrote custom TCP stacks to support things like WARP and soft-unicast 🧐

• Are network engineers obsolete? or have we had a good run, you decide 🤖

• AI Won’t Replace Network Engineers follows on from this with a strong opinion the other way, look at us, not being biased and all (or should that be b-AI-sed…) 🤖

• De-escalating Tailscale CGNAT conflict speaking about CGNAT, and what happens if the RFC 6598 100.64.0.0/10 is already in use by your VPN client 💥

• Automating DNS Management with Ansible drives BIND in an interesting way you may not have seen before 📇

Training 🎓

🏦 Cisco U CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
  (Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)

🪚 Tools

• Nokia Validated Designs GitHub Repo
  (Designs, GitHub, Network Lab)

• Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON)
  (Coding, GitHub, LLM)

• NetBird for WireGuard
  (Security, GitHub, SASE VPN)

🎓 Learning

• Nokia Validated Designs GitHub Repo
  (Designs, GitHub, Network Lab)

• SRv6 UPA Demo
  (Lab, GitHub, IPv6)

• Learning Python
  (Course, Free, Starts Dec 9)

🎥 Videos and Papers

• eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel Documentary
  (Video, 30 mins, Linux Kernel)

• Sibling Prefixes: Identifying Similarities in IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes
  (Paper, IPv4, 20 pages)

• 6 JetKVMs, 1 Rack – The Ultimate Setup!
  (Video, 13 mins, Homelab)

Hiring 💼

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• 🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ Meter, UK, London/Remote

🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Bupa, UK, London

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Oracle, Ireland, Remote

• 🇨🇦 OSS Network Automation Solution Architect @ CGI, Canada, Toronto

• 🇨🇳 Senior Data Center Network Engineer @ NVIDIA, China

• 🇮🇪 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇸🇬 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Singapore

• 🇪🇸 Network Engineer @ DXC, Spain, Remote

• 🇪🇬 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Egypt

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ BCA, UK, Hook

• 🇺🇸 Senior Network Deployment Engineer @ Crusoe, USA, CA

• 🇺🇸 VP Network Automation @ Pfizer, USA, PA

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• When 9 to 5 becomes 7 to 7: Understanding the rise of “microshifting”, otherwise known as “productivity doesn’t flow on demand, the creativity needs downtime to spark” 🔥

• Flash, Java Applets, and Building for a Web That Died makes us sad, Zombo.com and Albino Blacksheep are no longer things 😪

• How to Avoid the 5 Biggest MVP Mistakes for when your Proof of Concept actually needs to be proof positive, not a botched attempt ✅

• Public Intelligence (video, 1 hour) posits what happens if there was a distributed, open source, non-commercial AI you could use in the future 🤔

• GPTBot has a library of the best AI tools, prompts and guides to make the robots work for you 🦾

• Hashicorp Authoring & Operations Professional with AWS Exam documents one man’s experience with the whole exam, end-to-end 👓

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

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Industry 🏭

• UK Grid Overwhelmed by Data-Center Requests for Connections, might give rise to the DDoP - Distributed Denial of Power ⚡️

• Three huge new data centre schemes for London worth £10bn revealed has hopefully read the link above and has a solar panel of two to whack on the roof ready 🔋

• Critical Cisco UCCX flaw lets attackers run commands as root, so get patching if Call Manager or UCaaS is something you’re involved in 📞

• Theft at the Louvre: The surveillance system’s password “LOUVRE” has put the museum in crisis, but must have kept them guessing for a bit with a few typo’s of LOOVRE on the way surely 💩

• ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare, and who would have 100.64.though.it might be the case that SNAT wasn’t as good as pure Internet-routable IPv6? 🤒

• Extending the Malbec subsea cable to Southern Brazil and we always thought that region’s top exports were red wine, not multicolour photons down a series of tubes 🍷

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• Public DNS malware filters to be tested in 2025 tests public DNS resolvers for malware and malicious content protection, and has interesting results 🧪

• GCP Routing Adventures (Vol. 1) shows that networking and routing is the same… but different in Google Cloud vs what you may be used to in AWS or Azure ☁️

• Small-Mid is the new Large! explores AI Fabrics and performance differences between InfiniBand and Ethernet for AI workloads 🧮

• Automating Network Config Backups with Ansible and Git takes you through the whole playbook (yeah, yeah, it was an obvious Ansible pun…) of how to go from zero to open-source NMS backup hero 🦸‍♂️

• Containerlab – The Anti-Pattern but it feels and works, so, so, so good and it uses a lot less power; Labs as Code anyone? 🧑‍💻

• AI / ML network performance metrics at scale gives some ideas and dashboards on what signals to monitor for in RoCEv2-based AI Network Fabrics 🌡️

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses worth over 100 CE Credits

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

• Cisco U: Enhancing Cisco Security Solutions with Data Analytics (ECSS)
  (Course, 32 CE Credits, 31h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENTSHRU)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 16h)

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• Secure Cartography is a Python-based network discovery mapping tool
  (Tool, GitHub, Inventory)

• Can You Re-IP Your Network Underlay with ZERO Packet Loss?
  (Video, Arista, 40 mins)

• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
  (Course, AI, 18+ hours)

• IPv6 Certifications
  (Exams, Free, IPv6)

Hiring 💼

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• 🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ Meter, UK, London/Remote

🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇨🇦 OSS Network Automation Solution Architect @ CGI, Canada, Toronto

• 🇨🇳 Senior Data Center Network Engineer @ NVIDIA, China

• 🇮🇪 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇸🇬 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Singapore

• 🇪🇸 Network Engineer @ DXC, Spain, Remote

• 🇪🇬 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Egypt

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ BCA, UK, Hook

• 🇺🇸 Senior Network Deployment Engineer @ Crusoe, USA, CA

• 🇺🇸 VP Network Automation @ Pfizer, USA, PA

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• Convenient ‘Copy as cURL’: explicit, executable, editable request replays and something we couldn’t live without when reverse-engineering some shoddy Network vendor API or hacking a frontend together 💪

• Parallelization Strategies in Neural Networks goes deep, with diagrams and explanations, into how parallel-processing reaps rewards in AI as well as Python programming 🤔

• Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them - and Why Did I Love It? shows how careers in the IT world are changing a bit thanks to advances in AI, ride the wave people 🌊

• Wrangling the Wild West of MCP Servers shows a real-world, practical example of using MCP and Cisco Meraki to great affect 🤖

• Automating Kubernetes & Network Inventory Management using AWS EKS Auto-Mode & Nautobot has Nautobot (NetBox) go into the non-traditional networking world of Containers, Ingress, k8s and more 🚢

• The NSA selector fits in a Eurorack to convert RJ-45 “Ethernet” into audio signals for recording, and while we’re here for it, we don’t really get it; Gigamon without the, err, mon? 🕵️

• Fogg Behavior Model measures what happens when Motivation, ability and a Prompt come together at the same time 🔮

• Estimating Availability - Four 9s is the Ceiling uses a lot of maths and UML models to work out a real 99.xxx% SLA and has the maths to prove it ➗

• Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji details the approach and how Unicode can be abused and added to AI as a data exfil vector 🚰

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• IETF 124, Montreal, 1 - 7 November 2025, Canada

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

• APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026

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Industry 🏭

• VodafoneThree to offshore UK network jobs to India, scrub that CV up and look on our Network Engineer Job Board if you’re affected ❤️

• Could the internet go offline? Inside the fragile system holding the modern world together shows how little those outside the industry know how much duct tape and gum is doing some serious heavy lifting and keeping those fibres from going beyond… uh oh 💥

• Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Company If You’re Not At Work, time to pay MaxMind and IPinfo.io some dollar to change your Broadband’s Static IP to be based from the meeting room near your Office HQ… 💰

• ‘Workslop’: AI-Generated Work Content Is Slowing Everything Down because fact checking now takes longer when you’re one of the few remnants of human intelligence in town 🧠

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• IP In Heels is a space where women in tech connect, grow, and lead together, and we’re here for it 💪

• Did You Know Your Wi-Fi Works Without Internet? - of course you did, but for your colleagues that don’t, bookmark and pass this on; “The Wi-Fi isn’t down, Sir, actually…” ✌️

• A Network Crumb Back Story: A Baker’s Dozen Retrospective is more about Carriers and Telco than doughnuts and baking, but you could learn a thing or two about the Internet DFZ in this one 🍩

• Large scale optical switching at Google - AS15169 is a fascinating insight into how Google built it’s own Optical ToR Switches, including pictures of the “W”-shaped lasers and mirrors inside 😲

• Redundant VPN with Failover on a Palo NGFW is easy up until the point it isn’t and Tunnels are involved 🚝

• The Hidden Threat of Dangling DNS Records explains this often-overlooked risk, especially in the Cloud world where the CNAME shim in between wasn’t ever yours in the first place 📱

• The N-1 Rule: Why Smart Engineers Never Skip ISE Versions is somewhat like skipping leg day at the gym; sure it feels good at the time, but your scrawny posture will pay later 🦵

• Introducing QUIC Obfuscation for WireGuard shows how the protocol is making its way to the mainstream; it’s no longer IPsec vs SSL-VPN 🔐

• Pydantic series covers pretty much everything you could do with knowing about the useful Python library for all things Network Automation and more 📕

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses worth over 100 CE Credits

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

• Cisco U: Enhancing Cisco Security Solutions with Data Analytics (ECSS)
  (Course, 32 CE Credits, 31h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENTSHRU)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 16h)

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool
  (Tool, GitHub, o11y)

• Terramaid is a utility for generating Mermaid diagrams from Terraform configs
  (Tool, GitHub, Documentation)

• HN789: How a Global Payments Processor Automates Firewall Changes at Scale
  (Podcast, Network Security, 48 mins)

• Chimera virtual file system for NAS appliances
  (Tool, GitHub, Storage)

• DeepCode: Open Agentic Coding (Paper2Code & Text2Web & Text2Backend)
  (Tool, GitHub, AI)

Hiring 💼

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇮🇪 Staff Network Development Engineer @ ServiceNow, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇨🇦 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Canada, Ontario

• 🇨🇳 Network Engineer @ Corning, China, Shanghai

• 🇫🇷 Senior Data Center Ethernet Network Engineer @ NVIDIA, France, Remote

• 🇮🇳 Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Chevron, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Esports Network Engineer @ Riot Games, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇮🇪 Senior Access Network IP Engineer @ Vodafone, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ Meta, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Wave, UK, Remote

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• AI is changing the CTO role for the better (?) but we’re not sure about what the CAO (Chief AI Officer) thinks about all of that 🤔

• Seeing Business Like a Language Model might help you work out why the LLM is stuck in the same process loop you are about getting Barbara to approve your RFC under the Implement queue already 🤬

• MCP vs RAG: A Practical Guide for Data Engineers and AI Builders is so good we may have already featured it, read for a no-fuss guide on how to actually use AI stuff like RAG and MCP in real life 👓

• The Struggle for Trust Online probably explains something you knew to be innately true; people online trusted each other more in the AIM and MSN days than they do today; ICQ was right all along 💬

• How to Motivate Yourself To Do A Thing You Don’t Want to Do and with no carrot or stick required, some good practical tips to JFDI the thing you really don’t want to 🥕

• 5 Tiny Phrases Every Engineer Should Use With AI and they don’t end in “off” or “didn’t work” 🎤

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• IETF 124, Montreal, 1 - 7 November 2025, Canada

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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Industry 🏭

• First Malicious MCP Server Found Stealing Emails in Rogue Postmark-MCP Package was only a matter of time; API + AI = Viiiiiibes man, vibes don’t care too much for security 😎

• Optus firewall upgrade behind 13-hour Triple Zero outage covers what happened during a very dark period for Australian Telco trust ☎️

• Introducing the new Network Security Hub in Azure to summarise all the constant changes in everything Azure Networking from Azure Firewall to DDoS and more ☁️

• AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker’s dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months which could explain the exponential increase in attacks and outages over the last few months 🛠️

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• Object Oriented Programming: Using Python to Convert CIDR to Subnet/Wild Card is a short but sweet snippet of Python to convert from one Netmask format to another 👍

• 168.63.129.16: The Magic IP Address in Azure is kinda Anycast, but kinda not and pops up everywhere in Azure from DNS sideloading configs in from Azure VM Agent 🕵️‍♀️

• Honey, I shrunk the VPC suggests better ways of doing CIDR network allocations in the AWS Cloud, and limits you’ll hit along the way 🎬

• TCP chrono stats expands on kernel-level details of why performance transfers can be slow, even if you have sufficient bandwidth; nerd out deep here 🥽

• When Familiar Protocols Meet Unfamiliar Scale documents why BGP doesn’t work the way it ought to at big, Cloudy scale ☁️

• Back to Basics: A Primer on Communication Fundamentals explains optical communication stuffs from wavelengths, frequency, why the “D” in “DWDM” is there, phase-shifting, QAM vs BPSK and more 🌈

• Going beyond 8 peers in Azure Route Server explores what happens when you use next-hop-self’s lesser-known cousin for fun and profit in Azure VNETs 💙

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses worth over 100 CE Credits

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
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• Cisco U: Enhancing Cisco Security Solutions with Data Analytics (ECSS)
  (Course, 32 CE Credits, 31h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENTSHRU)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 16h)

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• copyparty - Portable file server for WebDAV, FTP, TFTP and more
  (Tool, NMS Swiss-army-knife, GitHub)

• Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
  (Course, Beginner, 20+ hours)

• Configure Private Link service Direct Connect
  (Tutorial, Azure, SDCI)

• ddi-migration-plan, ddi-questionnaire and ddi-workshop
  (Workplans, DHCP-DNS-IPAM, Infoblox)

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇨🇦 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Canada, Ontario

• 🇨🇳 Network Engineer @ Corning, China, Shanghai

• 🇫🇷 Senior Data Center Ethernet Network Engineer @ NVIDIA, France, Remote

• 🇮🇳 Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Chevron, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Esports Network Engineer @ Riot Games, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇮🇪 Senior Access Network IP Engineer @ Vodafone, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ Meta, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Wave, UK, Remote

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• How to keep up with all the digital content is more relevant than ever even if this was written a year ago, some good suggestions of systems (IT and people) to help you keep up with the barrage of WTF is happening in the tech world 🏃‍♂️‍➡️

• Why Over-Engineering Happens because you may be surprised to hear nobody intended to get there through under-performing, but sometimes sh!t happens and snowballs real bad, real fast 💨

• Where It’s at:// goes through the AT protocol in depth, which you can kinda think of as the new open source X or LinkedIn, but with it’s own protocol so it must be proper legit ✌️

• Top Lean AI Native Companies Leaderboard is also useful to keep up with the top AI Company names, models and people involved in the fast-moving tr-AI-n of all things LLM, GenAI and future enslavement of humanity progress 🤖

• How to think like a Google Security Engineer has some gold even if chasing FAANG isn’t in your 2026 TODO.md list 🎓

• Top 50 Large Language Model (LLM) Interview Questions gives you some insight into the kind of stuff you might do as an AI Engineer; you have to beat them to defeat them remember? 🥊

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• DevOps Days Detroit, Detroit, 22 October 2025

• FRNOG 42, Paris, 24 October 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• IETF 124, Montreal, 1 - 7 November 2025, Canada

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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Industry 🏭

• Vodafone is still ‘recovering’ following a major outage – here’s what we know and let’s see if they still tout the “UK’s most reliable network” after this one, someone tell that bloke from Spandau Ballet’s son about BGP already 💥

• Fire at government data center halts 647 systems, disrupts services has the Korean Government tell Voda, “yo dawg, hold my beer…” 🍺

• China-linked hacking fears over Cisco devices in offices is another week, another Cisco CVE, another reactionary shedload of stuff to do 🩹

• Confirmed compromise of F5 network is going to make open-source equivalents like HAproxy suddenly look very appealing for GSLB and ALB needs… 🤔

• New Spectre-based CPU vulnerability allows guests to steal sensitive data from the cloud and just in time for halloween too 🎃

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• What is ‘Packet, where are you?’ - Meet pwru! brings eBPF to packet capture and can help with stuff like MTU troubleshooting, RPF and other packet-level fun in Linux and k8s Container Network setups 🇵🇪

• Should you enable two 5GHz radios on access points? answers the question in relation to Cisco 9130 Access Points, but is universally available on many makes and models now, and might not net the gains you think it would 🤔

• Output drops due to lack of buffers? explores how serialisation affects differing-speed interlinks and what happens to switch buffers during these 🛁

• What Could a Starlink MNO Offering Look Like? posits a future where Starlink act at as a Mobile (Cellular) Provider, offering voice and data services to your latest Apple iPhone over the satellites in the night sky 🛰️

• MCP Demystified: A Starting Point for Engineers comes from your perspective trying to learn MCP and relate it back to what you already know 🥋

• Azure Global Load Balancer: It’s anycast, Jim! also uses PerfOps to help in a quest to work out what really happens with an Azure GSLB under the hood 🎩

• The Governance of the Root of the DNS is a fascinating read into how the DNS root (.) keeps actually running, and why it isn’t the “famous 13” you may have thought it was 🤙

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses worth over 100 CE Credits

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

• Cisco U: Enhancing Cisco Security Solutions with Data Analytics (ECSS)
  (Course, 32 CE Credits, 31h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking Solutions (ENTSHRU)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 16h)

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• Akvorado 2.0 - Enriched NetFlow to JSON
  (Tool, NetFlow, o11y)

• A Cool Feature of Wireshark You Should Know!
  (Video, Wireshark, 4 mins)

• httpjail - monior and restrict HTTP/S requests from processes
  (Tool, GitHub, HTTP/S Proxy)

• Packets in Space: Networking for the Final Frontier
  (Video, Space Networking, 30 mins)

Hiring 💼

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🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇨🇦 Wireless Network Engineer @ SemFio, Canada, Remote

• 🇮🇪 Senior Enterprise Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇳🇱 Staff Network Development Engineer @ ServiceNow, Netherlands, Amsterdam

• 🇸🇬 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Singapore

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Capital Group, UK, London

• 🇺🇸 Staff Network Engineer @ Lambda, USA, CA

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• Operating Principles That Guided Me to Staff Engineer (Part 2: Expanding Influence) talks about the Influence Flywheel and how you can leverage it to propel yourself to Staff Engineer 🎡

• How I build software quickly reminds us that less is more, and “ship, ship, ship, ship it now!” is more important than obsessing over coding language, file structure or which framework to use ⛴️

• Seeing like an LLM will make you rethink your next AI Prompt into ChatGPT 🤖

• How CISOs Can Drive Effective AI Governance gives a small snippet of insight into SANS AI work and categorising the newest threats on the Corporate IT block 🦿

• Shiny tools, shallow checks: how the AI hype opens the door to malicious MCP servers goes deep in detail on what you already know: MCP is about as secure as SNMP v1 public on your router was when it first went in 🔓

• Artificial Intelligence for Beginners - A Curriculum is exactly that, a path to follow to learn everything from Expert Systems, GAN, NLP, Multi-Agent Systems, LLM, RAG and more 👨‍🏫

• Fine-grained HTTP filtering for Claude Code combines the best of what you surely know as a Network Engineer (200 - OK) with Claude Code for agentic AI coding 👍

• Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape is the best Notberry Pi hosting hack we’ve seen in a long time, there’s more power on a Vape than you might think 💭

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 9 October 2025

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• All Things Open 2025, Raleigh, 12 - 14 October 2025

• Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• DevOps Days Detroit, Detroit, 22 October 2025

• FRNOG 42, Paris, 24 October 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• IETF 124, Montreal, 1 - 7 November 2025, Canada

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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Industry 🏭

• AWS Direct Connect Layer 1 Explained: From Data Centers to Cloud Connectivity if you’ve ever wondered where the xconnnect ends, your TGW starts and the VIF attaches 🤲

• Meta CTO explains why the smart glasses demos failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi but that doesn’t mean the poor Meta Network Engineers won’t be blame forever-more 😭

• Amazon ECS announces IPv6-only support means it’s really happening; IPv6-only is now a viable thing in the real, commercial Internet-facing world br:ac:ee::1 (if that’s valid IPv6? We need to learn here…) 🌐

• Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Allowing RCE or DoS in IOS Software which includes Meraki, IOS-XE, NX-OS and even uber-reliable IOS-XR Service Provider gear 🤕

• Secret Service dismantles network capable of shutting down cell service in New York is an interesting read into the world of RAN and Cellular threats ☎️

• Cybersecurity firm Netskope notches $8.8 billion valuation as shares jump in Nasdaq debut is proof that the SASE/SSE market is about to hot up; watch out Zscaler (also: how do you pronounce this one, scope or cope or…) 🥽

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• Why 6 GHz Wi-Fi Is Already Improving High Density Networks is fairly short, but concise about the differences between 2.4, 5 and 6 GHz in high-density Wireless deployments 🛜

• Curious case of sub-optimal performance digs into why your new AI Network Fabric and GPU Clusters might not be working as expected, with maths and useful RDMA concepts to back it up 🤔

• The Case for Immutable Network Configuration dives into what might happen if you embrace true DevOps approaches for your network and get rid of the hand-crafted, “pets” approach and go for replaceable, “cattle” approach for the benefits 🐄

• 802.11be/EHT/Wi-Fi 7 Frame Format and the Use of Content Channels will help you catch up with changes in Wi-Fi 7 PHY layer than enable increased performance and throughput 📡

• My Journey to CCIE Automation – Week 4 Automating Network Discovery and Reports with Python & Ansible is the latter part of this series and digs into Network Lifecycle reporting and use cases 🔂

• Netlab - The Fastest Way to Build Network Labs with added advantage of being able to quickly version control and revert them by going back to lab2-that-worked-FINAL.yaml in a jiffy 👍

• Azure Private Subnet and IPageddon covers what happens when Azure Default Outbound Internet Access finally dies, and you’ve got a mixture of Public or Private Subnet-defined VNETs 💥

• Broadband optical fibre with an attenuation lower than 0.1 decibel per kilometre is the thing that’s going to keep your FTTP and FTTC humming at unholy speeds and have you thinking back to the days of 512 Kbps DOCSIS in horror 🚄

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses.

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• THIS Is Where the Internet Lives
  (Video, 18 mins, Beginner)

• BGP Replay – Analyze historical BGP events
  (Tool, BGP, Internet Peering)

• Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Shortest Paths
  (Paper, OSPF, 17-pages)

• netSSL - web-based dashboard for SSL certificate management
  (Tool, GitHub, SSL Certs)

Hiring 💼

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🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇩🇪 Network Automation Engineer @ ABB, India, Bengaluru

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, UK, Dunstable

• 🇬🇧 Network Operations Engineer @ Barclays, UK, Knutsford

• 🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Wells Fargo, USA, NC

• 🇩🇪 Network Security Research Architect @ NVIDIA, Germany, Munich

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Google, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Staff Network Development Engineer @ ServiceNow, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇳🇴 Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Norway, Oslo

• 🇬🇧 Networks Architect @ Harbour Energy, UK, Aberdeen

• 🇺🇸 Network Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA, USA, CA

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• Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity it actually makes most organisations slower and not faster, when you look at the whole lifecycle 🛣️

• Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up builds on this with more research saying there isn’t actually a goldrush of coding happening for the AI shovels to help with, it’s more or less the same as now ⛲️

• MCP vs RAG: A Practical Guide for Data Engineers and AI Builders same idea, different approach; all about getting LLMs to interact with the rest of the world 🦿

• %CPU Utilization Is A Lie and in your heart, you knew that was the case as soon as Intel released HT back in the day; it no longer makes sense to focus on just the raw percentage when most workloads change at the half-way point 📈

• How does Apple’s wireless CarPlay actually work? is something you might have wondered after plugging it into your car’s USB port, after all, it’s just networking… right? 🚗

• MCP (Model Context Protocol): Simply explained in 5 minutes is the head start you need to start playing with these for your Network Automation - hey, could we call that AItomation? - efforts 🦸

• The fast path/slow path mirage, what it means when caching layers are present, and why it might actually work against you in practice 💀

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 9 October 2025

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• Cambridge Tech Week, Cambridge, 15 - 19 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• DTX London, London, 1 - 2 October 2025

• Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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Industry 🏭

• Subsea Cables Parted in Red Sea Again which is why most of Asia feels sloooow at present 🐌

• CISA Flags TP-Link Router Flaws CVE-2023-50224 and CVE-2025-9377 as Actively Exploited even though they’re EoS, there will be plenty of these lurking in the wild 🐗

• Insider Inter.link’s automation - deprecating Ansible gives an opinionated view on why the ISP went a different way for Network Automation, and how they’re doing this in practice 👓

• Akamai Enables Post-Quantum Cryptography on the Edge, which is gonna make your choice of ESP and AH encapsulation for IPsec real interesting from now on; best get a wide-screen monitor deployed on the side for that dropdown… 🛹

• MystRodX Leveraging DNS and ICMP to Steal Sensitive Data From Hacked Systems via text-hiding-in-the-payload methods that would make DNS Tunnelling blush 😳

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• The Hero Trap in Network Engineering: How It Undermines Scale, Velocity, and Sanity details the negative impact of Hero Culture in Network Engineering, and why it might sometimes be better to wear your underpants under your trousers instead 🦸

• Automating Network Lab Tasks with an MCP Server and LLM Assistance (Chapter 2) runs through using Containerlab to experiment with MCP to literally talk to your Lab Network in natural language 🎙️

• Azure ExpressRoute Gateway and Public IPs explains what the Public IP does on a private network ExpressRoute Gateway, and how this works with AZ affinity in the underlying Azure hypervisor architecture 🚥

• What Are the Key Stages in the Wireless Network Lifecycle? is just like an 802.11 preamble frame, short but sweet in covering the end-to-end 🛜

• Google is already using the future AI Network you might get in 2028 is certainly food for thought if SyncE, NTP, PTP, epoch and Daylight Savings Time are things you’ve ever had to worry about - but now for our AI overlords too 🤖

• Routing & Connectivity in AWS, Part 1 - A Guide for Network Engineers explains Cloud Networking concepts in a very approachable way for Network Engineers more used to Enterprise and on-prem deployments 👍

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses.

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• NetAuto-Bootcamp is a hands-on program for learning network automation
  (GitHub, Repo, Network Automation)

• LLM Course from Fundamentals to Scientist then Engineer
  (GitHub, Repo, AI)

• Event-Driven Data Centre Automation with Grafana and NetBox
  (Video, 10 mins, Intermediate)

• vCons Shipping Containers
  (Video, 6 mins, NotEng)

Hiring 💼

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🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇩🇪 Network Security Research Architect @ NVIDIA, Germany, Munich

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Google, India, Bengaluru

• 🇮🇪 Staff Network Development Engineer @ ServiceNow, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇳🇴 Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Norway, Oslo

• 🇬🇧 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Flatiron, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Networks Architect @ Harbour Energy, UK, Aberdeen

• 🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ SpaceX, USA, WA

• 🇺🇸 Network Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA, USA, CA

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• Tips For Better Interactions will help you build valuable soft skill muscle memory to let the important technical discussions flow 💪

• The 13 software engineering laws also apply to Systems Thinking, Network Engineering and all IT Infrastructure undertakings in general 👮

• Prompt Caching is a Must! How I Went From Spending $720 to $72 Monthly on API Costs essentially breaks down that it isn’t just HTTP workloads you should be worrying about Cache-Control configuration for if you want to save money and be more efficient 🤑

• Email is Easy is a small quiz of 21 questions that proves you know less about a valid email address than you think you do 📧

• Leading Intelligent Networks: From Hero Culture to High Performance details the human and operations cost of managing distributed Networks in a legacy way 💀

• Minimum Viable Infrastructure is a slightly different take on the traditional MVP or PoC route that software goes through 🧐

• Quit Pleasing the Machine isn’t just an essay on freedom, it’s questioning what it actually means to be alive in a consumerist society at all, deep 🪔

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• London Network Automation Meetup, London, 9 October 2025

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• Cambridge Tech Week, Cambridge, 15 - 19 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• DTX London, London, 1 - 2 October 2025

• Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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• The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams in a pretty sophisticated attack which zapped through various security-in-depth layers; this is more likely than trying to get via your L4-only Firewalls 💥

• How Cloudflare runs more AI models on fewer GPUs: A technical deep-dive is interesting reading if you’re not yet embroiled in the burgeoning world of AI Fabric Networks 🤔

• Work set to begin on new Northumberland data centre in a scenic (and handily, very cold and windy) part of the UK 🇬🇧

• BGP’s security problems are notorious. Attempts to fix that are a work in progress and ROA is only about half-way there, if Bon Jovi did BGP updates… 🎸

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🥳 100th Episode 🎉

A big thanks to everyone for the support (and coffees ☕️) so far, let’s see if we can keep going longer than that 6509’s uptime in the depths of your Data Centre halls; certainly wouldn’t dare to reload in 10 that old timer 💥

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• Lightweight Office Infrastructure: Transitioning from Backbone to SD-WAN shows that if even Uber were late getting on the SD-x taxi/bus/{{insert_mode_of_transport}}, then it’s still not too late for you 🚕

• Networking : Why You Should Understand the IPv4 Header Beyond Chasing Tools has some pertinent thoughts on chasing the fundamentals instead of the new shiny shiny ✨

• CloudVision Lab Guide is 40-pages of solid Arista gold, including use of Studios, Fabric build, Dashboarding and other tips and trips for CV ☁️

• Why you should dual-stack your DNS Nameservers if you want to reap the benefits of the growing IPv6 Internet and User Base out there, do it - you know it makes sense 🥞

• On Demand SRTE tunnels to resolve BGP routes looks kinda like MPLS FRR, smells kinda like MPLS FRR… but actually isn’t MPLS FRR? 🤔

• BGP "Roleplay" - Prevent Route Leaks Simply - the Junos Way (RFC9234) makes sense of some concepts like IRR, BGP AS Cones, Route Policy Language and other IX-specific bits which might be useful if IXP isn’t your usual bag 🍿

• AWS Direct Connect Technical Deep Dive (IX) demystifies the nuances of AWS DX deployments including the myriad of VIF and DXGW combinations and detailed topology diagrams of each 🥳

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses.

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

🎓 Network Engineer Learning

• Microsegmentation in Zero Trust Part One: Introduction and Planning
  (Paper, CISA, Zero Trust)

• Little DDI Helpers is a collection of helper scripts for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM
  (GitHub, Repo, DNS-DHCP-IPAM)

• Day in the Life of a $400K Engineer (we can all only aspire to this…)
  (Video, Short, If only…)

• Meganaut 1000 DC Speedrun from Megaport
  (Game, 1000-lives, Beat the DC)

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🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇨🇦 Senior Network Engineer @ Lyft, Canada, Toronto

• 🇫🇮 Data Center IT Manager @ Nebius, Finland, Uusimaa

• 🇭🇺 Network Management Tools Engineer @ Morgan Stanley, Hungary, Budapest

• 🇮🇪 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇸🇬 Network Product Manager @ Nokia, Singapore

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ University of Leeds, UK, Leeds

• 🇺🇸 Senior Network Consulting Engineer @ Arista, USA, WA

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• Your parents advice is outdated and one career for life seems increasingly unlikely, as does the concept of “career” when our AI Overlords are finished with it 🙏

• There are no entry-level jobs anymore. What now? has some thoughts on what young starters to industry should do next, and what we should do as a society to help them through 🧐

• FD-IX deploys Ookla 100 gig Speedtest server which we’re sure we wouldn’t even touch the sides on, but would love to know if you would? 🥶

• Your Engineering Estimates Are Setting You Up To Fail reminds you to measure twice, cut once, and estimate none - or at the very least a lot, lot, lot more than you originally thought; if in doubt double it, and double it again 💡

• Life Explained in 15 minutes is a 15-minute video on life itself and easy advice and philosophy on what is probably currently ailing you; watch it, do it, be happier 🥳

• Building Production-Ready MCP Servers at Scale has some detail on automating MCP generation with Claude Code 🧑‍💻

• The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number reminds us that algorithms are both everywhere you’d least expect, and that ideas in IPv4 and Ethernet headers are handy for 16-digit credit card numbers too 💳

• From .com to .gov: The internet’s inevitable nationalist turn puts a finger on some Internet culture behaviours you may have spotted in the wild, you’re not imagining it; the Interwebs are changing 🕸️

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025

• AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• Cambridge Tech Week, Cambridge, 15 - 19 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• DTX London, London, 1 - 2 October 2025

• Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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Industry 🏭

• Intel Outside: Hacking every Intel employee and various internal websites writes about how an exploit leaked the details of nearly a quarter of a million Intel employees in one go 😱

• UK telecoms firm takes systems offline after cyber attack and via an RCE in SharePoint no less, keep those systems patched folks 🩹

• Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations using Sni5Gect to secretly see that your WiFiman.com speed test via 5G is, indeed, as depressing as it looks to your eyes 🥀

• 5 Best IPv6 VPNs in 2025: Fast Connections + No Leaks is the biggest reminder that IPv6 is actually here; when the general public uses it for VPN ban bypasses, you know a technology is real 👋

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• The Network and NOC PNLNMS-1035 from Cisco Live details the Network and Monitoring setup for Cisco Live EMEA with some solid gold around real-world findings for mass-attendance, dense-coverage Wireless 🛜

• Should You Disable 2.4GHz Radios in Enterprise Wireless Deployments? we vote yes, but apparently they are some times when you should not, even if older 802.11 protocols aren’t your concern 😕

• Bandwidth is Dead. Long Live Latency agrees with a thread we’ve concerned for a while; consistent end-to-end QoS is hard (near impossible with the variety of hardware platforms and OS in the wild today), and the real differentiator in a mobile-first world is actually not speed anyway 🫓

• Italy’s CDN Coup: Telecoms Hijacking the Open Internet smells like net neutrality all over again, but this time with the real linchpin of the modern Internet; the Content Delivery Network providers 🍽️

• You Don’t Need a CCIE to Build a Network - Until You Do and that moment normally comes faster than you think if you’re working for an expanding company undergoing lots of M&A activity, IP Addressing is easy… until it suddenly isn’t 🤔

• Malware in DNS is unfortunately now a thing; careful what those FQDNs and TXT records are doing, it might actually be a clever C2 protocol using DNS to get through all your “rigorous” Enterprise security 🔥

• ASICs at the Edge is an interesting dive into how Cloudflare does real edge networking with custom gear, and goes over some old topics like CAM vs TCAM, RAM and other parts of Switching you may have forgot 🎛️

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses.

• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

🎓 Free Network Engineer Learning

• Inside Google Peering: Trends, Recent Policy Changes, And Future Direction
  (Video, 25 mins, IXP)

• ICMP Reachability Checker is a script to check reachability into a HTML report
  (Script, GitHub, Python)

• Decentralized and Dynamic Zero-Touch Provisioning of Leaf-Spine EVPN Data Centers
  (Paper, IEEE, Data Centre)

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🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ AMMEGA, India, Remote

• 🇮🇪 Network Development Engineer @ xAI, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇦🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Emirates NBD, UAE, Dubai

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ TikTok, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ Meter, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Software Developer (Python) @ OpsMill, UK, Remote

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• Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI pushes on the NLX thread and proffers that the future isn’t going to be a ChatGPT-style, OG Google Search “what you want to do today?” search box and submit button 👋

• Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update) updates an earlier article with findings of real-world use of LLMs for assisted coding, shortcomings, unexpected wins and avoiding gotchas ⛏️

• How to tell when AI is lying to you is probably the most essential skill going forward to maintain velocity without idiocy 🥶

• Professional Artifice is not just how you present yourself online, but how you present yourself in life; in the modern attention economy, how you’re perceived is nearly as important as what you actually do 🧐

• Small Changes That Made Our Daily Stand-Ups More Useful and none of them include “sitting down” or “not turning up to it” 😅

• Blind to Disruption - The CEOs Who Missed the Future reminds us strategy is sometimes more important than execution; nobody wants a USB MP3 Player anymore, no matter how long their battery life might be 🎹

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025

• Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025

• AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• Cambridge Tech Week, Cambridge, 15 - 19 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• DTX London, London, 1 - 2 October 2025

• Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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Industry 🏭

• NIST Releases Test Tools to Accelerate Adoption of Emerging Route Leak Mitigation Standards and they’re slightly different to more MANRS or rules to follow ⤴️

• MadeYouReset: An HTTP/2 vulnerability thwarted by Rapid Reset mitigations is yet another flaw in HTTP/2 and QUIC which exploits the way it pipelines requests for no good intent 😈

• Cloud Network Traffic Data: Empowering Network and Security Operations in the Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Era is a series of findings by EMA Research about modern Enterprise Networks 💰

• VodafoneThree activates network auto-switching on more than 600 sites so if you’re on either network in the UK rejoice, for technically local roaming will set you free (Three?) from coverage issues 📶

• Nvidia trumpets European AI infrastructure push and partners with lots more players, positioning itself in the middle of the next-equivalent to the old FC ecosystem that Broadcom now dominates ♟️

• AOL is shutting down dial-up internet after 34 years and we’re sad, like “you’ve got mail” sad and AIM buddy sad, just sad we’ll have to shut our second PSTN phone line off now ☎️

• Cisco discloses data breach impacting Cisco.com user accounts but luckily it’s been so complex through several CCO transformations, even the hackers are several TAC requests away from gaining access to your old work profile 💊

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• Notes on Flow Control for High Speed Networks covers PFC, Flow Control in general and goes into a lot of detail on the subject of building lossless fabrics for protocols like RDMA 🥽

• NAT on OCI Network Firewall explains the feature for Oracle Cloud’s Firewall offering, how it works, gotchas to avoid, and how to get logging information out of it 🪵

• The AI Revolution we didn’t see coming: why Network Automation is about to change forever comes out of AutoCon3 and has some thoughts about what technology like MCP means for those of you in Network Automation roles 🧐

• Ultra Ethernet 1.0 Specification: A High-Level Overview gives just enough background on what UE is (and what it isn’t), why it’s probably going to dominate many AI Fabrics, and what you can do to get up to (ultra) speed ⤴️

• How BFD Can Help Your Network (and Where It Might Hurt) is often a best mate to BGP, and if you played Quake in your youth, one letter away from being a big freaking gun 🔫

• Limitations of Simulated and Emulated Labs discusses when Digital Twins are great, and when they’re not so good; sometimes you really need to lab the actual gear to get the idea ⚙️

• Overview of Packet Flow through the NIC goes into the mechanics of the Network Interface Card, what this means for SmartNICs and DPDUs and might unlock an acronym or two you’ve never fully understood 🥁

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits

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• Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
  (Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)

• Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
  (Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)

• Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
  (Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)

🎓 Free Network Engineer Learning

• SwiNOG#40 - Network Automation with Infrahub and Terraform
  (Video, 20 mins, NetDevOps)

• The Prompt Report: A Systematic Survey of Prompt Engineering Techniques
  (Paper, GenAI, Prompt Engineering)

• IPv6 Address Planner is a command-line tool to generate hierarchical IPv6 space
  (Tool, GitHub, IPv6)

• Cisco Meraki Training - Masterclass
  (Video, 3 hours, Cisco Meraki)

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🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇬🇧 Software Developer (Python) @ OpsMill, UK, Remote

• 🇮🇳 Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, India, Remote

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineering Lead @ Lloyds Banking Group, UK, Manchester

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ nscale, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ G-Research, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ LMAX Group, UK, London

• 🇺🇸 Senior Staff Core Network Engineer SRE @ Google, USA, CA

• 🇺🇸 Avionics Network Integration Engineer @ Blue Origin, USA, WA

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• Genie 3: A new frontier for world models shows AI coming for something we didn’t expect; the Unreal Engine, and virtual worlds 🌎

• You can spot base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys and it isn’t just the double-equals that gives it away; Base64 is a language like any other, bonjour! 🇫🇷

• 4 Useful Japanese Concepts You Need to Know especially when you learn much of ITSM, ITIL, Agile and the like actually have their roots in manufacturing plants and factories 🏭

• Communicate like a Senior: Add the (right) context because it turns out it’s not just LLM prompts that benefit from added context, people can do with as much of it as possible as well 💡

• Bye-Bye Kafka bids the service bus farewall and discusses some other alternatives you might want to consider for your o11y and logging needs 👋

• Effectiveness of AI Coding Techniques: Input & Context builds on the idea of context but challenges some traditional ideas and prompt techniques 🥾

• Vibe code isn’t meant to be reviewed so why would you apply human-led approaches like PR Code Reviews, merging or other techniques which weren’t designed for mass-scale code shipping 🚢

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, 16 - 17 August 2025

• AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025

• Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025

• AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• Cambridge Tech Week, Cambridge, 15 - 19 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• DTX London, London, 1 - 2 October 2025

• Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

• CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025

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• The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward involving NTT, Hitachi and super fast fibre over a long distance 🗺️

• Reducing double spend latency from 40 ms to < 1 ms on privacy proxy is an impressive feat by Cloudflare on a common network bottleneck 🍾

• AI is doing job interviews now - but candidates say they’d rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot, and who can blame them; it was bad enough in the day of having to do a fawning Cover Letter to go with your CV, now you’ve got to smal talk the chatbot too 🤖

• Today’s Distributed Hybrid AI requires investments in AI Fabrics, DCI/WAN, and Security and apparently could be worth $100 billion a year by the end of the decade 💰

• Arista Networks (ANET) Q2 Revenue Surges To US$2.2 Billion which is certainly gunning for the big Cisco guerilla in the room at some pace 🎚️

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NetEng 🔧

• America Online ramps up IP transport network with DWDM over dark fiber is a 25-year old post that gives some insight into the history of the DCI for Data Centre connect back in the old days 👵

• Editing Palo Configs by Scripts: pan-os-php gives a PHP-based CLI to mass-edit Palo Alto configs, and if nothing else, might remind you it isn’t just Python in use in Network Automation scripts 🐘

• Old man yells at cloud: a mini-book on AWS networking is an entertaining look through AWS Networking, from VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables and even Terraform, and with added ducks 🦆

• When TCP Window Scaling Broke Our API - and How I Solve It with eBPF is an alternative to the traditional tcpdump or Wireshark approach that quickly reaps rewards 🥅

• Professional Cloud Network Engineer Exam Complete Guide 2025 is in translated Japanese, but crammed full of nuggets if you’re going for this exam soon 🧐

• Change Control Without Proper Automation Is Just Delayed Risk so don’t throw the ITSM baby out with the Waterfall ITIL bath water just yet 🍼

• Juniperhatesyou is an interestingly-named Web Directory Listing (that’s what we called repos before GitHub was a thing) of useful Juniper-related images, guides, firmware and more 🥾

• BGP Protocol Interactive Tutorial is as the post says a comprehensive guide to the Border Gateway Protocol 👍

Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️

• The history and development of BIRD (Internet Routing Daemon)
  (Video, 12 mins, BGP)

• WLAN Pi Go Official Launch Livestream
  (Video, 1 hour, Wi-Fi)

• somo is a human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring
  (GitHub, Tool, NetOps)

• LLM Engineer Toolkit repo of 120+ LLM libraries and use cases
  (GitHub, Repo, AI)

• WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding
  (Paper, PDF, InfoSec)

• How To Become a $250K Cloud Engineer in 2025
  (Video, 13 mins, Cloud/Networking)

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🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ G-Research, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ LMAX Group, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ News Corp, UK, London

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇨🇦 Senior Principal Network Architect @ Equinix, Canada, Toronto

• 🇸🇪 Network Implementation Engineer @ GlobalConnect, Sweden, Copenhagen

• 🇺🇸 Senior Staff Core Network Engineer SRE @ Google, USA, CA

• 🇺🇸 Avionics Network Integration Engineer @ Blue Origin, USA, WA

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• The AI Crash Is Coming - And That's Exactly What We Need when you’re in the middle of a bubble forming, there’s only one thing left for it eventually to do, don’t look down 📉

• Software engineering under the spotlight also applies to those of us in the Infrastructure space, especially if you’re an introvert - remember, interesting work follows interested people ☯️

• Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives but who asked them to, and what happens in a world where there’s more friction doing the dishes than buying a car? 🚗

• Reinventing EA for the AI Era: EA Frameworks are Dead. R.I.P. TOGAF. Hello Reflexive Enterprises. Start Architecting Intelligence, we always preferred the white chocolate honeycomb one they do at Christmas… wait that’s Toblerone you say? 🔺

• 20 Pandas One-Liners That Can Save You Hours of Work are incredibly handy for the multitool that is the Pandas Python data library 🐼

• Ludic's Guide To Getting Software Engineering Jobs also applies to Network and Infrastructure Engineers, times have changed, but jobs are still there, and you may as well approach the search with a sense of humour 🤡

Events 📅

🤜 Meet-ups

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

📢 Conferences

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, 16 - 17 August 2025

• AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025

• Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025

• AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

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Industry 🏭

• WLAN Pi Go brings Wi-Fi 7 Analysis to Mobile - By Wi-Fi Professionals, for Wi-Fi Professionals and it’s the coolest thing you can do yet with a Pi to replace your Ekahau scanning efforts 🛰️

• Broadcom Adds New Architecture With Tomahawk Ultra making the fast even faster with ultra-low latency Ethernet capable of as low as 250 ns (that’s n for nano not a typo for m)… 🚤

• How to Build Resilient Networks for AI Production Workloads is mostly all about the Ethernet Fabric, wash after wash after… 🧺

• The IPv6 transition is going faster and further than you might think, we’re nearly 50% of the way there and growing exponentially ⤴️

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