This week we launch our NetEng Job Board 📢; learn about High Performance Browser Networking 🌐; see how Wi-Fi 7 will compete with IoT 🏏; get our hands dirty with Network Traffic Telemetry on modern routers ⚒️; watch WebAssembly come for our Containerised NFV 🥶; get another G to why Internet outpaces Telecom 🕹️; force-multiply with LLMs as a Staff Engineer 👷; manage up to climb the Career Ladder 🪜 and monitor over 100 Gbps with sFlow 🪈. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
High Performance Browser Networking is a great resource for everything from HTTP/3, QUIC, Wi-Fi, WASM and pretty much every permutation of browser-based networking you can think of 🦖
The Network Automation Advantage: How Forward Looking VARs, MSPs & Consultants Will Thrive so you best get some shovels as there’s lots of sh!t to do 💩
Will Wi-Fi 7 Compete More With Cellular and IoT Protocols? and what is Wi-Fi HaLow doing being able to travel miles from one Access Point anyway, is it coming for ZigBee now… 🐝
Deploying a Virtual FortiGate with Ansible goes deep into the YAML and Jinja2 of making a Virtual Forti bootstrap into existence in this interesting lab 🥼
Network Traffic Telemetry on modern routers: part 1 (of a two-part series) makes new-fangled protocols like gNMI and OTel more real if you thought logging stopped at SNMPv3 and Syslog 🌈
WebAssembly for Network Automation: Build Once, Run Anywhere because WASM could just be the next Container or NFV delivery for Network code in the near future 🔮
Backend Network Designs for Inter-GPU Communication goes deep into AI Network Fabric topologies and constraints and makes discussions about non-blocking fabrics table stakes again 🚫
Learning 🎓
VPP: Monitoring 100Gbps+ with sFlow
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)This is the way - Holistic (Network) Automation
(Video, 35 mins, Beginner)Choosing the Right Tools: Balancing Benefits and Trade-Offs in Tech
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is finally 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
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇬🇧 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ ASK4, Contract, UK, Sheffield
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Barclays, Permie, UK, London
🇺🇸 Principal Network Architect @ Paylocity, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Infrastructure Engineer @ Not Diamond, Permie, USA, Remote
NotEng 🤔
Whats DevOps got to do with it? takes on whether it’s better to go from Software Engineer to Operations, or NetOps to Developer and has some strong opinions on it 🌭
Frameworks for Managing Up as a Software Engineer is useful for those of us in Networks too as it’s similar soft skills for helping ease the wheels of those who pay the bills 💸
The Gap: Why Internet Outpaces Telecom is pretty telling if you contrast, say, Wi-Fi 7 with only G number five that is 5G, read on to find out how IP came late to the Cellular (Mobile) Phone game ⏱️
We Were Wrong About GPUs because Developers don’t want them as much as you might think, they want the AI/ML on top “as a Service” instead 🍟
How I use LLMs as a staff engineer focuses on the time-saving provided by GPTs and the like from a Senior Engineering viewpoint 👊
Oh Sh!t, Git!?! is the one pager guide to git you didn’t know you needed to commit (to your Browser Bookmarks) 🔖
A List of Free and Public DNS Servers for 2025 and we bet you didn’t know
1.1.1.2does something more interesting than the usual Cloudflare one (dot-one, dot-one, dot-one) 1️⃣
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 👍
AI Tinkerers Rome, Rome, 3 March 2025
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Peering Days 2025, Split, 25 - 27 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
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Ubiquiti launches three new 10G cloud gateways for next-level networking and pushes UBNT from strength to strength when it comes to $-per-Mb value 💰
Configure IPv6-only subnets and instances with DNS64 and NAT64 if that’s your thing in Google GCP Cloud now without too much pain 💊
Report: Chip Designer Arm Plans to Become Chip Manufacturer feels like we might go back to the old ways with Network gear, after everyone just about standardised on x86 code 🧑💻
SolarWinds To Be Acquired By Turn/River Capital In $4.4B All-Cash Deal so do you reckon your renewal for the popular NMS will go up or down? Bet now! ♠️
2022 zero day was used to raid Fortigate firewall configs. Somebody just released them so rotate your keys (even that pesky SNMPv1 community we know you still have) as soon as you can 😰
First-ever data center on the Moon set to launch next month which is gonna be a bad call out if you’re out doing the weekly shop and get paged for SWITCH-MOON-001 going down 🧑🚀
World’s largest DDoS attack blocked, Cloudflare claims in world records we really don’t want to see creeping up to figures as high as 5.6 Tbps 😳
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 💬.