Ethernet PAUSE for Santa Claus
SANta with your sled tonight, bring data to my Storage Array so light
This week we try in vein to protect undersea cables 🌊; learn how to route leak with VXLAN 🤔; see what happens when a Cisco license finally expires 💥; use up to 5 nodes completely free in CML 2.8.0 😱; use Qwen 2.5 Coder over our other GPT and AI products 🦾; get 27 hours a week back with Desktop AI 🕝; see more than a quarter of Code at Google being generated by a Mr A. I. 🤖 and learn how GitHub won the Git hosting wars 🫡. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare and there’s more of them now than you could have imagined just a few years ago 🌊
Cisco VxLAN EVPN Route Leaking – 1 is part one of a larger series concentrating on the equivalent of VRF Route Leaking techniques in the VXLAN world 🌎
What happens to my Cisco device when its license expires? and does it just become an overpriced 24-port door wedge 🚪
Cisco Modeling Labs 2.8 Free Tier is so good we’re including it twice in this newsletter, get in and get up to 5 nodes span up already ⚙️
Is train wi-fi really that bad? We put it to the test and if you’ve travelled more than 4 minutes on a train in the UK, you’ll already know what the result is 👎
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇺🇸 Network Analyst II @ Honeywell, Permie, USA, MO
🇺🇸 Network Operations Engineer @ Okta, Permie, USA, Remote
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
🇺🇸 Network Solutions Engineer @ Eli Lilly, Permie, USA, IN
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Operations and Development Engineer @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Dev Engineer, Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
⭐️ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA ⭐️
🇺🇸 Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
🇨🇦 Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
🇺🇸 Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+, USA
🇺🇸 Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
🇺🇸 Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Contract, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
🇬🇧 Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇬🇧 Platform Infrastructure Lead (Networks) @ John Lewis, Permie, London
🇩🇪 Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇪🇸 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
🇩🇪 Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
🇳🇱 DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇷🇴 Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
🇨🇿 Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
⭐️ Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote ⭐️
NotEng 🤔
Qwen2.5 Coder will quickly become your favourite AI for coding over ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or anything else 🦾
How I got 27 hours in a week by installing one tool is kinda what you’re thinking but also not quite, AI comes to the Desktop 🖥️
Build Products is over a decade old now but still solid advice if you’re finding the solopreneur fire is being lit within you 🔥
More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI which was generated by AI, which was generated by AI, which in turn was generated by… 🐢
Why GitHub Actually Won in case you’re wondering why it’s so infamous that many people mistakenly think Git == GitHub these days 🤔
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Conf42 DevOps 2025, Virtual, 23 January 2025
(TX)NUG Dallas Winter Event 2024, Dallas, 25 January 2024
Conf42 DevOps 2024, Virtual, 25 January 2024
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
Industry 🏭
Announcing Infrahub 1.0 in case you missed it; Git meets NetBox meets CI/CD and makes a new type of NetDevOps’imal 🐈🐕
CML 2.8 Release Notes brings a free-tier capable of running up to 5 nodes without a license in the de facto Network Emulation platform 💥
Accelerated connections on NVAs or other VMs (Limited GA) boosts the SR-IOV-like capabilities of Azure SDN Networking to new heights 🚤
CVE-2024-47575 Missing authentication in fgfmsd is pretty bad if you’ve got a Fortinet device so get patching 🩹
A Simple Strategy To Convert Your Pets Into Cattle is a slight reimagining of Network Lifecycle for a good cause 🐄
Unified cloud.microsoft domain for Microsoft 365 apps is coming so update your Web Proxies, Firewalls, SASE and related ACLs if you use any Office365 product 🪟
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 💬.