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After a long hiatus, we’ve changed the structure of the Newsletter and we hope you like it; but you can always yell at a wall tell us about it if there’s other stuff you’d like to see.
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IPv6: Why You Should Care (Nick Buraglio at CHI-NOG 13) has some compelling arguments about finally getting around to doing IPv6 on your network this time 🕣
TIL: A Records vs CNAME Flattening on Cloudflare is what happens when you think you know apex, but apex knows best (they don’t call it a predator for nothing) 🦍
Can we use Emojis in SSIDs? is going to ruin your weekend running around reconfiguring all your devices just for that chocolate ice cream Wireless Network 💩
Amazon’s satellite internet service is scheduled for mid-2026 availability so hopefully any day now to oppose Starlink and heat up the competition in the LEO satellite sky (well, not too much, we’ve had enough heatwaves, ta…) 🛰️
There Is More To Azure Networking Than Connectivity & Security like IPAM, AVNMm, Azure Policy, CAF… ☕️
Series 2a: Cloud Network Engineering-Architecting an L1–L7 BGP Datapath with Cilium and eBPF builds on the earlier work on Kubernetes and how Service Mesh and CNI works in general 🕵️
Who Pays Whom? explores which Tier 1 networks are paying which other Tier 1 networks and who really has the most eyeballs or transits ⚡️
Azure Networking Is Software‑Defined - Once You Design for That, Everything Changes, because not everything can follow an on-premises construct you’re used to, and that’s actually ok 👌
DevEng 🔧
Kimi K3: Complete A-Z Guide to the Open Model that Beat Fable 5 takes you through it all, including detail of how it works, why it might be better and how to use it well 🦾
ARIL Adaptive Routing Intelligent Layer is a macOS AI chat client with prompt grading, classification-based model routing and lots of other features worth a look if you’re a Mac person wanting to optimise your AI token cost 💰
NETCONF and YANG: Building Programmable Networks has a worked example, stack tear down and thinking about getting this working with Nokia SR OS 🛞
Encrypted DNS: What Microsoft’s DNS over HTTPS public preview means for you and why getting your DoT separated from your DoH, SVCB and your RPZ is a good idea ☎️
Gateway is a next-generation, high-performance router designed from the ground up to deliver 10-gigabit speeds and we think it looks pretty cool, but is a tad more than we expected 💸
how does linux nat a ping? has got you curious now, admit it; is it
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NotEng 🤔
Inside the Race to Protect Submarine Cables From Sabotage is paywalled but some good insight into the arms race underwater to keep the Internet pinging ☢️
The Two Most Powerful Words in Any Negotiation aren’t what you think, and you’ll be disappointed you didn’t think of them earlier 🙏
21 Tips to Give Effective Employee Feedback might help if you’ve got a difficult conversation coming up 💼
PaperToilet is the click-pull stress relief you didn’t know you needed (ProTip: Do it on the phone on an actual toilet for a surreal experience) 🚽
The Mythical Agent-Month opines about ways you can gain productivity while you sleep, and what trade offs you need to make for this to work properly 🛏️
Eight more months of agents is probably dated now, but shows how much progress things are making in terms of real world work 🤖
My thoughts on AI intelligence from a Network Engineer who has some skin in the game 🎩
SocialEng 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
NLNAM, Utrecht, 9 September 2026
CPH Network Meetup, Copenhagen, 2 October 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
IETF 126, Vienna, 18 - 24 July 2026
AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026
NLNOG Day 2026, Hilversum, 4 September 2026
Connected Britain, London, 9 - 10 September 2026
BCIX Roundtable Summer, Berlin, 10 September 2026
European Peering Forum 2026, Paris, 14 September 2026
INEX 30th Anniversary, Dublin, 17 September 2026
BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026
HUNOG 4, Hungary, 30 September - 1 October 2026
Netnod Tech Meeting 2026, Stockholm, 6 October 2026
NetBox Evolve, Florida, 13 October 2026
NANOG 98, Miami, 19 - 21 October 2026
ARIN 58, Miami, 22 - 23 October 2026
RIPE 93, Sofia, 26 - 30 October 2026
AI Networking Summit, New York, 28 - 29 October 2026
OARC 47, Vancouver, 9 - 10 November 2026
Salotto 2026, Milan, 11 - 12 November 2026
Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026
IETF 127, San Francisco, 14 - 20 November 2026
DENOG18, Essen, 15 - 17 November 2026
AutoCon 6, Tucson, 16 - 20 November 2026
Luxembourg Internet Days, Luxembourg, 17 - 18 November 2026
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 💬.