This week we’ve got Slurp’it 🥤 as the perfect NetBox companion; best practices for Internet-facing 🛜 BGP peerings; long domains and truncation over DNS 🗜️; getting to grips with Segment Routing 🍊 over MPLS; quickly learning the foundations 🎓 of git; being stubborn 🐽 to get ahead or behind; how to start Google 🧠 and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Slurp'it - Network Inventory & Discovery Tool is the perfect companion to NetBox and this write-up takes you through how to use the tool and optimise it for your scenario 🙅
Best Practices for Enhancing BGP Security goes through some configurations and techniques you can use if you’re connected to an IX or the DFZ Internet badlands 🤠
DNS and UDP Truncation answers what happens when a domain responses takes advantage of multi-threading DNS and goes over one response frame 🖼️
Speedtest asserts it’s not always a network problem, but when it isn’t, why not prove it out to the Client with a script? 🚀
Segment Routing (SR): Understanding the why, what and how covers this popular MPLS-TP and TE alternative in detail; read on if you’ve heard of PCEP but dunno what it is 🍊
Hiring 💼
Networking and Automation: Staff Engineer @ Zscaler, Permie, India, Bangalore
Network Automation Senior Developer @ Accenture, Permie, USA, TN
Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
Senior Network Engineer @ OzarksGo, Permie, USA, AR
⭐️ Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA ⭐️
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
Senior Network Developer (Python/Terraform) @ Oracle, Permie, Phillippines, Makati
Network Engineer - Core Platforms @ Booking.com, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Developer 2 @ Oracle, Permie, $180k+, USA, TX/VA
Network Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA, IL/TX/PA
Cloud Optical Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, WA
Senior Network Engineer - Monitoring & Automation @ CoStar Group, Permie, USA, CA
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ AstraZeneca, Permie, Mexico, Guadalajara
Production Services Engineer, Infrastructure Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
NetDevOps Senior Lead SRE @ JP Morgan Chase, Permie, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Network SRE @ XTX Markets, Permie, £150k+, UK, London
Associate Net DevOps Engineer @ Aryaka Networks, Permie, India, Bengaluru
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps @ Kunai, Permie, USA, TX/VA
Principal Infrastructure Engineer @ Anaplan, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, $190k+, USA, ID
Staff Network Reliability Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, CA/NY/WA
Senior Systems Engineer Smart Routing @ Cloudflare, Permie, USA (Remote)
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Foundations of Git - Certification Course is a free course to learn all things
gitin real-world detail to simplify your version control check ins 🎼Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools analyses when it’s time to stop versus when it’s time to push on for something new and amazing; is sunk cost fallacy real? 🚣♂️
How to start Google analyses the traits you might need to be the next FAANG 🤔
The best engineering interview question I’ve ever gotten, Part 1 is programming heavy, but posits a challenge your SQL and Linux brain might want to look at 🧠
Become a Solutions Architect (BeSA) is an amazing repository of training materials and learning paths to take you from zero to Solutions Architect 🏹
Events 📅
Networkshop 2024, Nottingham, 18 - 19 June 2024
NetUK 1, London, 8 - 9 July 2024
Networking Field Day 35, Silicon Valley, 10 - 11 July 2024
SANS Network Security 2024, Las Vegas, 4 - 9 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
Industry 🏭
AWS supports dynamically removing and adding auto assigned public IPv4 address making it a bit easier on your EC2 admin activities 👍
Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now supports Domain Redirection which is handy when your CNAME points to a pointer to a pointer, like most SaaSy Apps do these days 👀
New Meter Switch Platform Unlocks Virtualization and Digital Twin Capability are coming for the established players like Cisco and Juniper in the physical Networking market 🥫
Open Source Grows Up At KubeCon EU as it focuses on pesky Enterprise things like observability, governance and insight ⏳
Virgin Media O2, Liberty Global, Telefonica Plan a National UK Fixed Network is something Openreach will be looking at with much interest amongst we’d guess 🎧
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 💬.