Big load of bytes in the washer
Washing machine IoT goes bonkers; looking up MAC OUIs in Python; NiFi isn't WiFi; pesky little scripts; Anycast DNS goes 100% SLA; ML for Networks is coming and more
This week we’ve got a 📕 book to get to grips with that AWS Cloud thing; B4RN’s LINX presentation on building ISP 💍 Ring Networks; tech predictions for 2024 🔮and beyond; demystifying why dial-up ☎️ was the odd number 56k; automating your blog ✍️ workflow; a new acronym for us - SPaaS; a smorgasbord of NetDevOps jobs 💼 and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Python MAC OUI lookup in just two lines of Python? Don’t mind if we do… 🔍
LINX120 B4RN’s Resilient Ring Network gives a fascinating 30 minute walkthrough of B4RN’s rural 🚜 ISP Network
Machine Learning For Networks: It’s Coming so what better time to face it head on and embrace the AI and ML fun to come 🎪
Introduction to NiFi and no it isn’t like WiFi 🛜 at all
Why is 56k the fastest dialup modem speed? bring back that v.92 extra 6-7 Kbps speed boost option already, those were the real days 👴
Anycast DNS for the I–Root Service: 20 Years of 100% Availability is an SLA your ITIL team would be envious of 🫢
Hiring 💼
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA, Remote
Principal Distributed Network Dataplane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, Remote
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, USA, San Mateo CA
Senior NetDevOps Engineer @ UBS, Permie, Singapore
⭐ Developer - Network Automation @ Sky, Permie, UK, London ⭐
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Network Infrastructure Engineer @ Met Office, Permie, £32k, UK, Devon
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
Automating blogging workflow - Part One - Yo, Dawg! We heard you might like exercising your DevOps skills while blogging about your NetDevOps skills! 🔁
Pangea for Ops Spot-Checking covers a new category of product for us, Security Platform as a Service (SPaaS) with Ansible playbook 📖 to boot
Pesky little scripts talks about adding prefixes to your scripts to make them work a bit like the alias command would for you on IOS gear ⚙️
Tech predictions for 2024 and beyond and we’ll give you a hint, it does mention letter 1 and 9 together quite a lot 🎱
Thirty Observations at Thirty doesn’t have much to do with NetEng, but does cause a moment to ponder where your life is going (slowly 🐌 if this FortiGate doesn’t start complying…)
Events 📅
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 - 11 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
Law enforcement disrupt world’s biggest ransomware operation - it’s the one I always confuse 😕 the name of with the poor Windows Disk Encryption app
Tech stocks just wrapped up one of their best years in past two decades after 2022 slump so the gravy train 🚆 is still on track for IPOs and Mergers to come
Your washing machine could be sending 3.7 GB of data a day — LG washing machine owner disconnected his device from Wi-Fi after noticing excessive outgoing daily data traffic a reminder that IoT mostly sucks 👎
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 💬.