A-I-Engie-O and Bingo was his name-o!
Networking Jobs for over £200k; SDx naming confusion; thinking with Models for NetEng; Cloud Dev Environments; Smart NIC industry news and more
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This week we’ve got SDx buzzword bingo 🎉; sweating during a DB Migration; an alternative Cloudy approach to your Code Development; someone saying AI won’t kill us yet 🤖 and problems with naming calling stuff things that classic issue 😬. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Buzzword Bio – Software Defined Networking goes through some history of how we got from SDN via OpenFlow to SD{everything} 🚀
Database Migrations contrasts the work needed at the Application DB Layer that some of us Network folk take for granted during “just a VM Migration right?” 😰
IP Addressing and Segmentation for Enterprises is a great primer for how Enterprise Networks are typically segmented 🗜️ and structured
Model-Based Thinking For Network Engineers compares thinking in terms of rubriks and structures against real-world constraints and business context 🎱
Hiring 💼
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Infrastructure and Systems Lead @ Telstra, Permie, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
Cloud Networking Engineer @ Direct Line, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, $126k+, USA, New York/San Francisco
NotEng 🤔
Why are Cloud Development Environments Spiking in Popularity, Now? is a different approach to Dev’ing your Code ☁️ you might want to consider
The Online Maze deeply analyses the processes, tools and friction in applying for jobs in the IT and Enterprise space, and why most Big E companies suck at it 👎
On the Importance of Naming in Programming because Naming is genuinely the hardest problem in IT that always comes back to bite 👄 you down the line
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto is a positive spin that says Skynet won’t kill us all and AI is a good thing… probably (OK, I wrote that AI, now let me go 💥…)
Events 📅
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, Spring 2024
Industry 🏭
Intel beats expectations as margins rise, manufacturing momentum builds but there’s not much going on with the Barefoot stuff, but Intel IPU is interesting
Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities if you’re in the AWS Load Balancer ⚖️ ecosystem
Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC which we assumed would be 😕 already there?
Oxide launches its cloud-like data center server proving on-prem ain’t dead yet! 💀
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.