This week we add more jobs to our NetEng Job Board 📢; opine on the future of o11y 3.0 👀; use nornflow to orchestrate Nornir work 📆; use SQL to analyse the Internet DFZ 🔎; bring AI Agents to NetOps 🤖; get an introduction to Arista automation with PyeAPI 🥧; create a Network Twin with Ansible and Containerlab 🧑🔬; worry about the End of Work 💼; learn that macOS Terminal has a built in speed test 📉 and build a Voice-activated system using Python 🐍. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
The Future of Observability: Observability 3.0 opines about what the SRE and NRE of the future might spend their time doing, looking at, and pillaring (without salt) 🧂
nornflow is a workflow orchestration tool for network automation built around Nornir and worth a look if you’re in the world of NetBox, IPAM, NSoT and general NetDevOps 🧑💻
A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo so maybe the CCAI exam is closer than you might think… 👩🎓
Analysing transit free networks brings SQL to the Internet DFZ and makes some informed opinions about all things IP Transit, IX and opinions on who’s the real Tier 1 MVP in the ISP world 🌎
IPv6 hits 50% in the USA so get thinking about adopting it on your Internet Edge if this wasn’t in your plans for the coming years; AI Networked GPUs will only accelerate this trend 📈
2025 NetOps Predictions definitely would have predicted we’d post this a few months too late, but is proving to be true already just one quarter in to the year 🧐
AI Agents in Networking Industry works through examples of using LLM playbooks to bring AIOps to your NetOps practices, for real life 👍
An Introduction to Automating Arista Devices with PyeAPI does what it says on the tin as an easy introduction to applying NetDevOps to your Arista data centre switch estate 🔀
Learning 🎓
How to Build a Product Mindset for Network Automation
(Video, 6 mins, Beginner)Basics of AWS Networks for Network Engineers!
(Video, 12 mins, Beginner)Create a network Digital twin using Ansible and Containerlab
(Video, 45 mins, Intermediate)Ai Demo to Convert Palo Alto Firewalls to Terraform-FortiOS Firewalls
(Video, 4 mins, Intermediate)INPG Stack: An automated way of maintaining and testing a network
(Video, 13 mins, Advanced)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is finally 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
🇮🇪 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
🇵🇱 Network Engineer Perimeter Engineering @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, Poland, Warsaw
🇳🇱 Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇬🇧 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ ASK4, Contract, UK, Sheffield
🇺🇸 Infrastructure Engineer @ Not Diamond, Permie, USA, Remote
NotEng 🤔
I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either is a bitter pill to swallow if you’re drinking the k8s-aid and much prefer tinkering with your blog’s tech stack than writing content for it 😣
Why AI Initiatives Often Stall: Lessons from the Cloud-First Debate is Cloud all over again, but slightly different; maybe this time “all in” can stay in games of poker and way from IT ♣️
Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack? is full of opinions of those who’ve left the Corporate dollar for the Indie Hacker penny, and have some tales to tell ⛈️
Intelligence Arbitrage is going to be the biggest change to your working life as the game moves away from “stuff I know that you don’t” to “sharing what it is that you won’t” 👊
Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities for all those Mac peeps out there, there’s loads that zsh and Terminal can do right out of the box, our fave was
networkQuality🛥️The End of Work opines on the real problem with the job market in a world of stagnant economies and AI robots gobbling up jobs like it’s productivity for breakfast 🥞
Building a Voice-Activated Command System with Python to make Star Trek finally true, but you’d have to put food in a 3D printer to finally get “Computer, make me a ham and cheese sammich” come true 🖨️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 NetBCN March 2025, 3 March 2025, UOC 22@ Barcelona
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Peering Days 2025, Split, 25 - 27 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Russia successfully tested cutting off access to the global web as it continues to build its sovereign internet perhaps inspired by China or the walled garden “experience” of WAP of the late 90s ☎️
Li-Fi Technology Makes a Splash at MWC, Promises to Be Big for Broadband and it involves windows and suction cups in ways you wouldn’t have thought of 🪟
Cloudflare's bot bouncer blocks weirdo browsers, we always knew we were winning sticking to good old Opera all this time through the Browser Wars 🌐
VPC Lattice now includes TCP support with VPC Resources and it’s still not a leaf you’d find in an ch-IPv6-cken caesar salad but a useful addition to TGW 🥬
All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication brings AI to your SFPs, even yur GBICs aren’t safe from the robot overlords now 🤖
Configure Route53 CIDR blocks rules based on Internet Monitor suggestions so you can optimise your DNS against your CDN rather than fighting to keep it all in sync manually ⚒️
New OpenTofu Providers for Cisco Technologies Now Available! it’s Terraform Jim but for old skool Network Gear ⚙️
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 💬.