This week we visualise our Networks with PyNetWeaver 🧺; introduce ourselves to Jinja2 for Network Automation ⚙️; get better broadband with BIDB ⚡️; learn what’s up with Starlink speeds 🛰️; bring AI to notepad.exe 📝; go wrong in a Python interview 🐍 and learn five prompting techniques to up our AI game 💪. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
PyNetWeaver is a powerful network discovery and data collection tool that generates some awesome dynamically-updating visuals and is worth a look 👀
An Introduction to Jinja2 for Network Automation is a brief yet concise walkthrough of the popular templating language and application for Network Engineering 🍽️
Better Internet Dashboard (BIDB) will tell you about local ISP, Fibre, Cellular (Mobile) and other Internet connectivity options you didn’t know were in your backyard (UK-only) 🇬🇧
How AI is changing the modern data center and it’s not just networks it’s coming for, but also power, power, power, power ⚡️
What’s up with Starlink speeds? (33 mins) and is more down to raw TCP algorithms than you might have thought 💭
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
⭐️ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA ⭐️
Engineer GNOC Tools and Automation @ American Express, Permie, USA, AZ
Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
Senior Data Center Engineer @ Target, Permie, USA, MN
Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
Senior Network Peering Engineer @ Disney, Permie, USA, TX/NC/NY/CA
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, USA, CA
Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
Staff Networking Engineer @ GitHub, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior Network Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior Network Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
Principal Network Developer - Cluster Networking @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
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
Network Automation Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
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
Lead Cloud Network Engineer @ NatWest Group, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
⭐️ Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh ⭐️
Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer @ G-Research, Permie, UK, London
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
DevOps Engineer Network Security @ Swisscom, Permie, Switzerland, Zurich
⭐️ Network DevOps Engineer @ SAP, Permie, Hungary, Budapest ⭐️
Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
Network DevOps Engineer @ Swisscom, Permie, Switzerland, Zurich
Network Architect @ Capgemini, Permie, Norway, Oslo
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
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
Senior NetDevOps Software Developer @ United, Permie, India, Gurugram
Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
⭐️ Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote ⭐️
NotEng 🤔
Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now proving nothing is sacred from the AI hype train 🚆
Cloud Guardrails are your quick reference to Cloud Best Practices and worth a read to check you’re not doing daft things to your Cloud Networks ☁️
Interview gone wrong for when you think you knew something all along, interview someone, mansplain the answer, then get the karmic comeuppance of being wrong 😑
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence is a lengthy diatribe on the state of AI, impact on industry (in general), commerce, learning and pretty much everything as we know it, Jim 🚀
Five proven prompt engineering techniques (and a few more-advanced tactics) walks through the best-known techniques to optimise GPT output to accelerate your AI prompting powers 🚤
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, 21 Nov 2024
📢 Conferences
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
AI Networking Summit London, London, 10 December 2024
Cloudbrew 2024, Mechelen (Belgium), 12 - 13 December 2024
(TX)NUG Dallas Winter Event 2024, Dallas, 25 January 2024
Conf42 DevOps 2024, Virtual, 25 January 2024
Industry 🏭
GKE and the dreaded IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED error: Understanding the culprit is a new kind of hell that transcends the concept of a Secondary IP, and then some 😱
Microsoft plans to make data centres out of wood in latest push to cut emissions and let us tell you that this very much is our holz, holz-y holz-y, holz 🪵
Cloudflare Introduces Short-Lived SSH Access, Eliminating the Need for SSH Credentials and for pesky PKI SSH Certificate systems and ceremonies 🥳
Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in yearslong account takeover attacks and if they could just infect the Netgear D7000v2 please, so we could Telnet in and give Dnsmasq the 3-daily kick it needs to start again… 🙏
The biggest underestimated security threat of today? Advanced persistent teenagers is not wrong - an adversary with more time than money or sense is a very dangerous one indeed 🕣
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 💬.