We’re definitely monthly then - hopefully you’ve not missed us too much. Highlights this time:
Connecting two OCI VCNs with BGP; SRv6 Multi-vendor Lab; Sshwifty for Browser SSH; Management in the age of AI; Hacking the Go compiler for IPv6
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IPv6 Was Going to Save the Internet. Any Day Now remembers the promise that has yet to be delivered from maybe a decade ago is now a monthly add-on 💰
Connecting two OCI VCNs via Megaport using the AS Override feature takes advantage of the little-used BGP feature to glue two Clouds together 🍡
SRv6 Multivendor Lab is like the Containerlab of all things Segment Routing (SR) and worth a play if you’re in the Service Provider space 🍑
BGP Traffic Engineering on AWS is an interactive AWS Workshop to get you used to how it works with Direct Connect, VPC, TGW, ECMP and more 🥼
WLAN Pros Toolbox is what you need in your pocket when dealing with Wi-Fi installs and troubleshooting 🛜
ASPA at APNIC: Strengthening BGP path validation expands on how ASPA works alongside ROA and RPKI to add some sense of trust and security to the BGP connection ecosystem 🌎
How does RoCE actually deliver a Lossless network gets into the weeds of how this protocol allows AI inferencing and training workloads to actually get on the wire 🦾
DevEng 🔧
Your Platform Shouldn’t Have to Invent the Network argues that great platforms don’t necessarily mean great Network Engineering practices beneath 🍿
Sshwifty Web SSH and Telnet Client is a multi-tabbed SSH and Telnet client made for the web, and maybe useful if you want to frontend your Network Lab with an in-browser terminal solution 🤔
Hacking the Go compiler to efficiently map IPv4 to IPv6 takes Go need into the
netip.Addrweeds to cross-map IPv4 octets to IPv6 addresses, grab a coat and dive in 🤿Hacking OpenAI goes the other-way around from common news of late; in Soviet Internet, AI hacks… 🍴
Agentic AI Has a Determinism Problem. Your Network Will Find It because it’s the one place in IT stacks where we still let snowflakes shine bright (not too bright, you’ll burn out that SFP las…) 💥
/last30days might just be the Google of the MCP Agent Skills world 🔎
Pytest for Automated Network Testing (I) walks through usage of the module, approach to general testing in Network Automation and reasons you should be doing it already 🤖
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Management in the Age of AI has some thoughts on what Middle M-AI-negers (see what we… isn’t it… cle… yeah, ok…) might need in future, and how those of us IC Engineers will need to step up to address their needs 🎩
You’ve been a doing this for years, you just never had the title talks about what happen when the leap from Junior to Senior sneaks up on you all of a sudden 👴
Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers is a calculator to help you work out if it’s cheaper to use that spare $1b in your pocket to build a Data Center on earth or in space 👩🚀
The Architect’s Vanity: How I Engineered My Own Technical Debt is a warning that fixing debt often actually causes even more debt 📚
Network Engineers: Today’s Endangered Species but it’s not all doom and gloom if you don’t have grey hair yet 🪜
Fitting It All in Your Head has thoughts on why the current approach of teaching the museum of Network and IT stuff may not scale so good 🤯
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ARIN 58, Miami, 22 - 23 October 2026
RIPE 93, Sofia, 26 - 30 October 2026
AI Networking Summit, New York, 28 - 29 October 2026
OARC 47, Vancouver, 9 - 10 November 2026
Salotto 2026, Milan, 11 - 12 November 2026
Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026
IETF 127, San Francisco, 14 - 20 November 2026
DENOG18, Essen, 15 - 17 November 2026
AutoCon 6, Tucson, 16 - 20 November 2026
Luxembourg Internet Days, Luxembourg, 17 - 18 November 2026
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 💬.