This week we learn about differences in STP on Juniper and Cisco 😥; see the 2024 Internet year in review with Cloudflare ☁️; do DNS over Wikipedia with .idk 📖; learn how SSH came to be on port 22 🤔; take the path to Senior Engineer with a handbook 📕; get our ExpressRoute topologies looking more square ➡️; implement a local RAG for our own ChatGPT 🤖 and bin off CAP Theorem in the age of AI 🗑️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Spanning-Tree Interoperability between Cisco and Juniper is a rabbithole that’ll remind you of the eleven-billion variants of xSTP that exist in the world (RSTP, MST, PVST+…) 🥹
Cloudflare Radar 2024 Year in Review is the CDN giants views into all things Internet, IXP, ISP, IP Transit and more as enabled from the Cloudflare Radar visibility and tracking of the entire Interweb 📡
DNS over Wikipedia is an interesting way of browsing the web with the use of the
.idkTLD space that’s parallel to concepts like DNS Tunnelling in ingenuity 🪈The story of getting SSH port 22 from the wonderfully-named company is worth a read, it’s not just a case of being
-1from Telnet 📺JunosViz 0.1.0: A Python Package for Monitoring and Alerting on BGP Metrics with SNMP, NETCONF, and gNMI does what it says on the tin and is just a
pip install junosvizaway for you to play with the wonderful world of Streaming Telemetry ▶️ExpressRoute multi-region: triangles or squares? or mobius loops, or figures-of-eights or all the other wonderful ways you can trip yourself up with the help of the MSEE backbone and some regional gotchas in Azure ☁️
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Aviatrix, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Junior Network Engineer @ Jacobs, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Crusoe, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇺🇸 Network Analyst II @ Honeywell, Permie, USA, MO
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
🇺🇸 Network Solutions Engineer @ Eli Lilly, Permie, USA, IN
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Operations and Development Engineer @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
⭐️ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA ⭐️
🇺🇸 Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
🇨🇦 Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
🇺🇸 Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+, USA
🇺🇸 Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
🇺🇸 Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Contract, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
🇬🇧 Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇩🇪 Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇪🇸 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
🇩🇪 Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
🇳🇱 DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇷🇴 Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
🇨🇿 Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
🇨🇳 Senior Solutions Architect Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, China, Remote
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Senior Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, India
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
Why the Coolest Job in Tech Might Actually Be in a Bank posits that Big Tech is dying, but Finance is thriving for Tech Workers 🤔
Path to Senior Engineer Handbook takes you through everything you might want to read, consider and learn to become a Senior Engineer; regardless of your current specialism 🧑🏫
Implementing Local RAG Service: Integrating Open WebUI, Ollama, and Qwen2.5 takes you through some cool ideas of using AI locally to essentially host your own ChatGPT-style web interface without external dependencies 🚧
Whatever happened to the three-year IT roadmap? other than AI killing it, trends like xaaS (even NaaS now), Cloud, Subscription licensing hitting IT Vendors and more has basically shortened “long term” to a shorter horizon than it used to be ⏪
Pretty & Dense AI Prompting with Claude will help you get the most out of your AI Prompts in the new year 🤖
Let’s Consign CAP to the Cabinet of Curiosities it’s a theorem, but it might have had it’s day with the advent of distributed systems architecture and thinking enabled through advances like LLM ⚒️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Conf42 DevOps 2025, Virtual, 23 January 2025
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
AWS Mainframe Modernization now supports connectivity over Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) proves you can mix new and old, but until they do TRoIPv4oIPv6 (Token Ring over IPv6 over IPv4), we’re out 💍
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 💬.