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This week 2025 State of Network Automation Survey 🗳️; run proper IPTTH ISP Transit into your house 🏡; goodbye, ACI? 👋; Cisco Live BRK slides all in one place 🏴☠️; Azure Network Security Lab workbooks ☁️; Understanding AI and LLMs as a Network Engineer 🎓; traffic engineering for AI Fabrics 🚦; there is no point to HTTP/2 past the Load Balancer 🦔; 3 mistakes to avoid in your Performance Review 🤘 and AI will be dead in 5 years 💀. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Goodbye ACI? expresses something we’ve thought for a while, in a more concise way, there’s something pesky about ACI 🫰
How to bring data centre-like connectivity to your home with IPTTTH which is subtly different to FTTH and a lot more IP Transit-y, including Telco last-mile pieces you may not have seen before 🤔
All the Cisco Live 2025 Europe Breakout Session Slides (PDF) in one handy place; someone point an AI at this already and let’s get Breakout Bot live! 🤖
#RadarGate: When Australia Invaded NZ's WiFi and line of sight was impacted by passing ships in the night, not passing out of sight 🛜
Azure Network Security Labs is a curated set of lab books on Azure Network thinks like Azure DDoS, Azure Firewall, Azure WAF and more, get your VNETs around these for a spin 😵💫
Network automation engineering with Containerlab keeps being the go-to solution of choice to replace EVE-NG and get to grips with both Containers and benefit from DevOps practices like IaC and Git to benefit your homelabs 🧑🔬
FRRouting. No clickbaits. takes you through the use of FRR on Linux to do some Ethernet Bridging and make a Linux box act as a Router on a Stick 🦯
There Isn't Much Point to HTTP/2 Past The Load Balancer apparently, but we’re not sure; not al LANs are created equal 🟰
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
Cisco AIxEdge for Cisco Catalyst 9350 Smart Switches
(Video, 10 mins, Beginner)Lightweight Traffic Engineering for the AI/ML Fabrics
(Paper, 31 Slides, Intermediate)Building Trustworthy Network Automation, From Principles to Practice
(Video, 30 mins, Beginner)Understanding AI and LLMs as a Network Engineer AI4NE
(Course, 1 hour, Beginner)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is 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
🇺🇸 Lead Data Center Engineer @ xAI, USA, TN
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Parker, USA, NC
🇺🇸 Principal Network Engineer @ Oracle, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Principal Network Architect @ Major League Baseball, USA, NY
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Bupa, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Technical Infrastructure Specialist @ Lloyds Banking Group, UK, Leeds/Manchester
🇳🇱 Staff Network Engineer @ Servicenow, Netherlands, Amsterdam
NotEng 🤔
Google’s Cloud IDP Could Replace Platform Engineering or at the very least change some of the concepts of how you use an IDE like VScode to interact with infrastructure ☕️
The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code is the scariest thing we’ve ever read, but increasingly becoming truer by the day; if AI optimises itself, who actually needs the
reloadcommand anymore? 😱The Agentic Systems Series has practical and academic advice about approaching the world of Agentic AI applications, and something we recently heard coined as “NLX” (Natural Language Experience) instead of UX (User Experience, a.k.a. a GUI) 🦾
Is It Lunacy to Put a Data Center on the Moon? because in space, nobody can hear you Syslog or Network Telemetry event stream 💀
3 Mistakes to avoid when writing your performance review which aren’t “Make ChatGPT do it” or “I have amnesia and can’t remember what I did for the last 12 months” 💹
Software Design is Knowledge Building and Network Engineering isn’t too far from being the same 🦸
AI will be dead in five years could be a strong take, or worth reading - but remember, “hybrid Cloud” was a big thing a while ago, and now it just “is”, so people don’t call it out so much 👴
The Value Mindset is a big unlock to becoming a leader of the pack; much of being a good Engineer actually isn’t being a good Engineer at all 🧘
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
Next event: NetBCN June Meetup, Barcelona, 18 June 2025
📢 Conferences
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
SwiNOG 40, Switzerland, 24 June 2025
NetUK2, London, 7 - 8 July 2025
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
Qualcomm to Acquire Alphawave Semi and grow their NPU lines extensively 🏁
How Nokia is Scaling its Data Centre Networking Plans by going full Cloud, and we didn’t realise, they own Infinera too for the OTU optical layer 👓
How to suss out the fake agents at MWC25 is worth a read from modern context to see where the Telco industry is pivoting, given most of them missed out on the whole Public Cloud “thing” ☁️
DeepSeek Crushes OpenAI o1 with an MIT-Licensed Model - Developers Are Losing It seems like so long ago now given the insane rate of progress in AI, but really wasn’t in human-time 🕰️
Here’s what Cisco needs to fix has a bunch of opinions, let’s see how many come true as the year rolls on 🤘
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 💬.