AI for CI/CD? Let's be prompt
Migrating a k3s cluster on a VPS; the math behind VARs, MSPs and SIs; a drawing tool to give Visio a run for it's money; getting better at life as an Engineering Manager and more
This week we’ve got a 📕 book to get to grips with AWS Cloud; using CI for NetDevOps 🪈; getting to grips with Istio and k3s ⺵; a list of important Networking books 📚 to read; useful Design Engineering Patterns ⠟; Prompt Engineering strategies 👩💻; what Mr OpenAI wished people had told him 🤩; cool things in Aviation ✈️; jobs from Paris 🇫🇷 to Belgium 🇧🇪 and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Network CI and Open Source runs through how CI/CD for NetDevOps is kinda like for DevOps, but also kinda diff-erent (did you just do a diff joke? +/- if they like it…) 😫
Migrating a single node k3s cluster runs through using a VPS (that’s what we called Cloud Compute in the old days) to migrate a mini-kubernetes cluster, and the advantages of k3s over full-blown k8s 5️⃣
Istio Networking Part 1 is part of a series running through the Istio Service Mesh for kubernetes, including the architecture, concepts and lateral ideas like Sidecar Proxies, Control Plane distribution and Pod Management 🫛
The unfortunate math behind consulting companies is worth bearing in mind if you work for a VAR, MSP or Consultancy; it all comes down to margin in the end 📊
What are the most important computer networking books to read? has some doosies and some don’tsies (it’s semi-AI-powered, sorry) covering the Networking world 🌍
Hiring 💼
Senior Engineer Network Automation @ Sony, Permie, $160k+, USA, TX/CA/MA/CO
Lead Network Automation Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson, Permie, Belgium, Antwerp
Network Automation Solutions Developer @ Nokia, Permie, $43k, India, Bengaluru
Associate Director Network Automation Engineering @ Humana, Permie, $126k+, USA (Remote)
⭐ Senior Lead Network Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, $143k+, USA (Remote) ⭐
Network Solutions Consultant @ Juniper, Permie, $102k+, USA (Remote)
Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, $158k+, USA, TX/CA/NJ
Network and NetDevOps Engineer @ Airbus, Permie, France, Marseille
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA (Remote)
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, USA, San Mateo CA
Senior NetDevOps Engineer @ UBS, Permie, Singapore
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
tldraw is like MS Paint online, but with quick predefined shapes and stencils for IT Engineering, the ability to collaborate and is basically the Online Whiteboard of your dreams 💭
The Future of Aviation has an awful lot of advancement to gain from AI, modern design processes, globalisation and consolidations ⛙ in the major engineering and defence companies
Book: Data Engineering Design Patterns (DEDP) proves that what’s old is new again, is old, is new again, is old, is… 📉 - sorry let me adjust my re.match(pattern{1,3}, replace, dammit)…
Prompt engineering runs you through a series of strategies to convince your friendly neighbourhood AI ChatGPT to give you the answer you wanted rather than telling you at a meta-level what to Google (“Yes, I know that Perplexity, just gimme da code already, aight?”) ❓
Becoming an Engineering Manager can make you better at life and relationships, but will almost certainly make you hate Task Management systems 😤 and Leadership politics
What I Wish Someone Had Told Me from that AI Guy Mr Altman (wonder if his mates are called Ctrlman and Deleteman, and he stands in the middle with them…) ⌨️
Events 📅
Palo Alto Ignite On Tour London, London, 30 March 2024
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 - 11 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS follows suit for the GCP announcement, and is a stark reminder to check those Network Transfer costs in your Cloud bills - data is free of access, not of charge 💰
dot.bs helps you pick the cheapest Domain Registrar including those funky new TLDs 🥸
Cracked macOS apps drain wallets using scripts fetched from DNS records by exfiltrating code as Base64 over DNS queries, a cunning fox 🦊 indeed
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 💬.