This week we watch Uber test-drive the benefits of SD-WAN 🚕; learn Arista CloudVision with a 40-page guide 📖; Roleplay our way with BGP in RFC9234 ⛓️💥; dual-stack our DNS Nameservers for IPv6 🥞; learn our parents advice is outdated ⏰; build Production-ready MCP Servers at scale 🐙 and do the Meganaut 1000 DC Speed Run for the 900th time 👾. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
🥳 100th Episode 🎉
A big thanks to everyone for the support (and coffees ☕️) so far, let’s see if we can keep going longer than that 6509’s uptime in the depths of your Data Centre halls; certainly wouldn’t dare to reload in 10 that old timer 💥
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Lightweight Office Infrastructure: Transitioning from Backbone to SD-WAN shows that if even Uber were late getting on the SD-x taxi/bus/{{insert_mode_of_transport}}, then it’s still not too late for you 🚕
Networking : Why You Should Understand the IPv4 Header Beyond Chasing Tools has some pertinent thoughts on chasing the fundamentals instead of the new shiny shiny ✨
CloudVision Lab Guide is 40-pages of solid Arista gold, including use of Studios, Fabric build, Dashboarding and other tips and trips for CV ☁️
Why you should dual-stack your DNS Nameservers if you want to reap the benefits of the growing IPv6 Internet and User Base out there, do it - you know it makes sense 🥞
On Demand SRTE tunnels to resolve BGP routes looks kinda like MPLS FRR, smells kinda like MPLS FRR… but actually isn’t MPLS FRR? 🤔
BGP "Roleplay" - Prevent Route Leaks Simply - the Junos Way (RFC9234) makes sense of some concepts like IRR, BGP AS Cones, Route Policy Language and other IX-specific bits which might be useful if IXP isn’t your usual bag 🍿
AWS Direct Connect Technical Deep Dive (IX) demystifies the nuances of AWS DX deployments including the myriad of VIF and DXGW combinations and detailed topology diagrams of each 🥳
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
🏦 Cisco U - Free CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses.
Cisco U: Introduction to Network Simulations with CML (CMLLAB)
(Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
(Course, 16 CE Credits, 28h 40m)Cisco U: Managing Cisco Network Operating Systems (CNIOS)
(Course, 37 CE Credits, 37h 15m)
🎓 Network Engineer Learning
Microsegmentation in Zero Trust Part One: Introduction and Planning
(Paper, CISA, Zero Trust)Little DDI Helpers is a collection of helper scripts for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM
(GitHub, Repo, DNS-DHCP-IPAM)Day in the Life of a $400K Engineer (we can all only aspire to this…)
(Video, Short, If only…)Meganaut 1000 DC Speedrun from Megaport
(Game, 1000-lives, Beat the DC)
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
🇨🇦 Senior Network Engineer @ Lyft, Canada, Toronto
🇫🇮 Data Center IT Manager @ Nebius, Finland, Uusimaa
🇭🇺 Network Management Tools Engineer @ Morgan Stanley, Hungary, Budapest
🇮🇪 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇸🇬 Network Product Manager @ Nokia, Singapore
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ University of Leeds, UK, Leeds
🇺🇸 Senior Network Consulting Engineer @ Arista, USA, WA
NotEng 🤔
Your parents advice is outdated and one career for life seems increasingly unlikely, as does the concept of “career” when our AI Overlords are finished with it 🙏
There are no entry-level jobs anymore. What now? has some thoughts on what young starters to industry should do next, and what we should do as a society to help them through 🧐
FD-IX deploys Ookla 100 gig Speedtest server which we’re sure we wouldn’t even touch the sides on, but would love to know if you would? 🥶
Your Engineering Estimates Are Setting You Up To Fail reminds you to measure twice, cut once, and estimate none - or at the very least a lot, lot, lot more than you originally thought; if in doubt double it, and double it again 💡
Life Explained in 15 minutes is a 15-minute video on life itself and easy advice and philosophy on what is probably currently ailing you; watch it, do it, be happier 🥳
Building Production-Ready MCP Servers at Scale has some detail on automating MCP generation with Claude Code 🧑💻
The Math Trick Hidden in Your Credit Card Number reminds us that algorithms are both everywhere you’d least expect, and that ideas in IPv4 and Ethernet headers are handy for 16-digit credit card numbers too 💳
From .com to .gov: The internet’s inevitable nationalist turn puts a finger on some Internet culture behaviours you may have spotted in the wild, you’re not imagining it; the Interwebs are changing 🕸️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025
Cambridge Tech Week, Cambridge, 15 - 19 September 2025
FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025
Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025
Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025
DTX London, London, 1 - 2 October 2025
Network X, Paris, 14 - 16 October 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025
RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025
ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025
DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025
EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025
AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025
CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025
Industry 🏭
Intel Outside: Hacking every Intel employee and various internal websites writes about how an exploit leaked the details of nearly a quarter of a million Intel employees in one go 😱
UK telecoms firm takes systems offline after cyber attack and via an RCE in SharePoint no less, keep those systems patched folks 🩹
Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch 'attacks' without using rogue base stations using Sni5Gect to secretly see that your WiFiman.com speed test via 5G is, indeed, as depressing as it looks to your eyes 🥀
5 Best IPv6 VPNs in 2025: Fast Connections + No Leaks is the biggest reminder that IPv6 is actually here; when the general public uses it for VPN ban bypasses, you know a technology is real 👋
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 💬.