This week we run EVPN in k8s on our laptop 💻; tunnel our VPN via QUIC hiding in HTTP/3 🕵️; use DNS-SD to make WireGuard work through NAT 🤠; understand IPv6 usage in IoT gear ⚙️; learn the human factor of LLMs for NetOps 🫀; learn that less is more in Engineering focus 🧘; grow up AI-first with the kids 🧮; learn about a supply chain attack with dangly buckets 🪣 and have an “oh fsck” moment using AI to accelerate our code 😱. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Running an EVPN Endpoint in a Kubernetes Cluster—On My Laptop! does what it says on the tin, munging k8s and EVPN together on a laptop for your Containerlab learning pleasure 🎓
Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC brings you the magic of hiding a VPN inside some HTTP/3, so that nobody will ever know; Proxy Bypass-tunneling just got cool again 🐻❄️
Network Automation …“Why Would I?” to “I already am!” is the transition journey you know you need to go on, with the proof to take you there; today! ✅
WireGuard Endpoint Discovery and NAT Traversal using DNS-SD goes deep on the internals of Wireguard and a practice case to tunnel through NAT-protected networks 🚝
Every Byte You Take: How Cloud Ingestion Pricing Eats Your Budget because remember, it’s free to join, but costs a lot to get your bytes to leave those CSP castle-moats 💸
IoT Bricks Over v6: Understanding IPv6 Usage in Smart Homes is a research paper going into the real accelerator of IPv6 adoption: M2M communication between the growing number of non-human hosts on the Internet 🤖
Lab Guide: Evolving Traffic Generator Deployment with Kubernetes is a lab demonstrating how to give
iperf3a k8s, multi-pod boost in performance and throughput 💪
Learning 🎓
Reverse Engineering 4g Hotspots for Fun Bugs Net Financial Loss
(Video, 45 mins, Advanced)IP Multicast - How to design Multicast Networks - Session 6
(Video, Members-only)The human factor of using LLMs in network operations - Phillip Gervasi
(Video, 42 mins, Intermediate)Physical network access with micro-segmentation
(Tutorial, 20 mins, Intermediate)
Hiring 💼
We’re (still…) working 🛠️ on something cool here, stay tuned 📻…
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Network Architecture Intern @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Distributed Cloud Network Systems Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Principal Network Engineer @ Paylocity, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
🇺🇸 IT Network Lead - WAN @ Baxter, Permie, USA, IL
🇺🇸 Data Center Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ Intrepid Fiber Networks, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Aviatrix, Permie, USA, TX
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Network Engineer Optical @ Meta, Permie, UK/Ireland, London/Dublin
🇬🇧 Network Management Specialist @ BT, Permie, UK, Hemel Hempstead
🇬🇧 Restaurant Network Engineer @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Services Lead @ Yorkshire Building Society, Permie, UK, Bradford
🇬🇧 Senior Network Architect @ Nationwide, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Network Rail, Permie, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ CACI, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 IP Network Designer @ BT, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ Community Fibre, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Cloud Network Specialist @ Accenture, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Edge Network Engineer @ ByteDance, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Verisk, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Systems Engineer - Juniper (Mist) @ Tesco, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Betway, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ DRW, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇳🇱 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
🌎 Rest of World
🇦🇪 Lead Platform Owner - Network @ Emirates NBD, Permie, UAE, Dubai
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
An "oh f*ck" moment in time if you’re producing code of any type (including IaC, YAML or Python) this is worth your time 🕰️
The art of engineering team focus: less is more definitely resonates at the firehose of work in most IT shops today 🔥
Growing Up AI-First is going to be “don’t get used to the calculator, because you won’t have one in your pocket after school” all over again for future generations 👶
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur and learnt a lot about how dangling AWS S3 Buckets can be abused for fun and hijinks 🪣
5 Terraform Best Practices I Wish I Knew When I Started that might save you a tonne of pain getting to grips with the IaC big gun 💉
How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops goes down an interesting route of making yourself illegible to the insta-copying powers of AI and LLMs 🤠
Explainer: What's R1 & Everything Else? decomposes all things DeepSeek (and AI) if the pace of AI development is making you dizzy with confusion 🫤
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 NetBCN March 2025, 3 March 2025, UOC 22@ Barcelona
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Startup Radar: Bowtie Security Delivers SD-WAN + SASE/SSE Services Without The Cloud and is worth a look if you’re finding Zscaler, Cisco Umbrella, Cato and their equivalents a bit, err, “spendy” 🤑
NetOps teams ready to dump incumbent monitoring tools and in many cases indeed dump on many Monitoring and NMS tools if our experience is anything to go by 💩
DevAI secures $6M to empower Enterprise IT with Network AI Agents is indeed bringing Agentic AI (AAI?) to the network moat 🏰
Netgear warns users to patch critical WiFi router vulnerabilities, and in our experience of the Nighthawk, you might want to give DNS a kick every 5 mins so it doesn’t lock up too 🦵
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History from relatively poor and rushed frontend API glue code design; expect more of this, more quickly, in more places thanks to more AI 🤖
Comcast is rolling out ‘ultra-low lag’ tech that could fix the internet but we’re not really sure what L4S is, or where it fits against QoS, TE and other ISP network components… 🚨
Lenovo to acquire Infinidat, further expanding enterprise storage portfolio if you’re in the SAN and Storage Networking arena, this is good to know 🗄️
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 💬.