BGP really stands for Bestest Great Protocol
Cloud is bad; a scenario to interview for NetEng roles; getting told off for saving half a mil; bending NSX to your k8s will and lessons from 20 years of SRE
This week we ask if the Cloud is bad (mkay?) 👹; how to interview for a NetEng role; using NSX LBs in k8s clusters; the danger 🚧 of comparing upward; being blamed for saving loads of money and browser debugging tricks in the 🕸️ WebDev Console. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
In Partnership 🤝 with The DNS course for developers (and the rest of us…)
NetEng 🔧
Wait, is cloud bad? looks at cloud repatriation in detail, but also how the rose-tinted glasses might make you remember good times that actually weren’t (slit fingers 🏥 on cage nuts anyone?)
How to Interview a Network Engineer Using a Single Scenario is worth a read if you’re interviewing, or being interviewed 🎓 anytime soon for a NetEng role
The Benefits of Running Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) in Your Network including our favourite “because it isn’t OSPF” (well, they don’t say that, but they should…)
Quick Tip: NSX Advanced Load Balancer for vSphere Tanzu with NSX Networking for those of you fighting with NSX and k8s 👊
Hiring 💼
NetDevOps Engineer @ UBS, Permie, UK, London
NetDevOps Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Contract, €475+ day, France, Lille
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Infrastructure and Systems Lead @ Telstra, Permie, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
Cloud Networking Engineer @ Direct Line, Permie, UK, London
Network Automation Tester @ Virgin Media O2, Permie, UK, Reading
NotEng 🤔
I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars is proof no good deed goes unpunished by Corporate 🚂
Internet Artifacts takes you back to simpler times of Geocities, IRC, MP3’s and Webcams 😲
The Danger of Comparisons (There’s Always One Level Above) and one day it’ll still be you, and you’ll still be looking up to the next 🧐
All of the writing I did in a week as a software engineer is much less code than you might expect for a Big Tech SWE
67 Weird Debugging Tricks Your Browser Doesn't Want You to Know takes you way beyond console.log() in the Web Developer console 🕹️ (geddit?)
Events 📅
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, Spring 2024
Industry 🏭
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager now allows you to Bring Your Own ASN to AWS to compliment BYOIP now we’ve got BYOASN (BYOA? Needs work…)
X celebrates 60% savings from cloud exit but we bet 100% of you still call it Twitter 🐦
Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering including “#1 Yes, you really are older than you thought” 🎅
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 💬.