This week 2025 State of Network Automation Survey 🗳️; pick unused Private IP Addresses with data 📊; design and build IPv6 Architectures in AWS Networks ☁️; RP vs PoE for inline power on Networks 🔌; the world’s first 100 Tbps Switch ⚡️; Technology Lifecycle advice for Network Engineers 💡; function calling with LLMs into the real world 🌍 and breaking up with On-Call ☎️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Picking uncontested private IP subnets with usage data tackles that unique problem of finding Private IP Space that doesn’t also conflict with your VPN, Coffee Shop Wireless or anywhere else your Customers are ☕️
Design and build IPv6 internet inspection architectures on AWS is an indispensable guide to tackling IPv6 in your AWS Cloud from ACLs, GWLBs, DNS, dual-stack and even FinOps implications 🕵️♂️
Real-time speed, performance and bandwidth measurements is useful if you’re troubleshooting pesky packet loss or performance with tooling like iPerf, which is useful for, err, a friend… 🎬
Slashing AWS Costs with Athena, VPC Flow logs & VPC Endpoints guides you on a FinOps journey to use these NetFlow-like flow and Network inspection tools to save big on those costly Cloud network egress fees 🤑
How NAT traversal works is probably a reminder that while you may think you know how stuff like NAT-T, STUN and TURN work, you might not really… 🎓
Deep Learning for Network Engineers is a fantastic eBook to get you up to speed on all things AI and what we used to call ML before they changed the term… 🤖
Scale-Up Fabrics dives deep into technologies like UALink for Network infrastructures that power AI Workloads 🦾
Automating Network Config Backups with Ansible and Git is practical, actionable guidance to getting started in NetDevOps with these three easier-than-you think tools and practices 🦸
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6: The World’s First 102.4 Tbps Switch
(Video, 1 hour, Beginner)What's the Impact of the new RP Categories for Power over Ethernet Cabling?
(Video, 22 mins, Intermediate)wtfis - Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots
(Tool, CLI, GitHub)TerminalTelemetry - Interactive terminal access, automatic device fingerprinting, and network visualisation
(Tool, CLI, GitHub)Jules in 90 Seconds (Google AI Coding for GitHub)
(Video, 90 secs, Beginner)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🇬🇧🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Parker, USA, NC
🇺🇸 Principal Network Engineer @ Oracle, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Principal Network Architect @ Major League Baseball, USA, NY
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Bupa, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Technical Infrastructure Specialist @ Lloyds Banking Group, UK, Leeds/Manchester
🇳🇱 Staff Network Engineer @ Servicenow, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇮🇱 Senior Network Engineer @ NVIDIA, Israel, Yokneam,
🇭🇺 Senior Enterprise Network Engineer @ BP, Hungary, Budapest
NotEng 🤔
Before You Kill It Off: How Network Engineers Should Think About Technology Lifecycle reminds us that “x is dead” is pretty much never true, remember - Mainframes still exist, and even AI won’t kill them off in 50 years’ time. Fight us 👊
Proof of that OOP is "Applied Brain Damage"! has some thoughts on object oriented-programming that we definitely agree with, procedural has a place, and that place is definitely in Network Engineering 💡
To Be an AI Architect or Not To Be: Every Cloud Architect will become an AI-Generalist also has some thoughts, we’re not so sure but see what you think 🤔
Function calling using LLMs unlocks the real power of AI by giving it some API-like glue to get it to the real world, this is really cool 😎
Learn KubeVirt: Deep Dive for VMware vSphere Admins if you’ve come from the ESXi world and don’t like Broadcom’s price hike, this guide is for you and the non-VMware world of virtualisation 🏧
Sell yourself, Sell Your Work will get you ahead in today’s competitive job economy, remember you are the product in more ways that one; sell yourself to feed yourself 🌮
Breaking Up with On-Call investigates how AI might improve things if you spend a lot of your life bleary-eyed for a forced 3.14 AM coffee wake up MIM Bridge Call ☎️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
Next event: NetBCN June Meetup, Barcelona, 18 June 2025
📢 Conferences
NANOG 94, Denver, 9 - 11 June 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
SwiNOG 40, Switzerland, 24 June 2025
NetUK2, London, 7 - 8 July 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
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
Announcing the NetBox Hero Award Winners for 2025 see who made the popular NSoT and DCIM tool on steroids better this year 🏆
Enabling out-of-band management for third-party appliances in AWS Cloud WAN using a GWLB to connect to your NFV, otherwise known as VXLAN VNI trickery instead of SNATing the flow 🫣
Zero Networks Raises $55M Series C to Usher in the “Era of the Defender” we don’t really know what this means or why it’s so easy these days to raise millions in VC funding, but if anyone knows someone we’re happy to take cheques? 🏁
AWS announces IPv6 support for EC2 Public DNS names in this, the year of {deity here} 2025, would have thought IPv6 would already be there for rDNS 🚤
IPv6 comes to… Windows 98? You heard right… 🪟
CVE-2025-0123 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Unauthorized Access to Decrypted Packet Captures so get patching those Panorama instances folks 🩹
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 💬.