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 ๐; learn how to route leak with VXLAN ๐ค; see what happens when a Cisco license finally expires ๐ฅ; use up to 5 nodes completely free in CML 2.8.0 ๐ฑ; use Qwen 2.5 Coder over our other GPT and AI products ๐ฆพ; get 27 hours a week back with Desktop AI ๐; see more than a quarter of Code at Google being generated by a Mr A. I. ๐ค and learn how GitHub won the Git hosting wars ๐ซก. Letโs dive in; โฌ๏ธ
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NetEng ๐ง
Protecting Undersea Internet Cables Is a Tech Nightmare and thereโs more of them now than you could have imagined just a few years ago ๐
Cisco VxLAN EVPN Route Leaking โ 1 is part one of a larger series concentrating on the equivalent of VRF Route Leaking techniques in the VXLAN world ๐
What happens to my Cisco device when its license expires? and does it just become an overpriced 24-port door wedge ๐ช
Cisco Modeling Labs 2.8 Free Tier is so good weโre including it twice in this newsletter, get in and get up to 5 nodes span up already โ๏ธ
Is train wi-fi really that bad? We put it to the test and if youโve travelled more than 4 minutes on a train in the UK, youโll already know what the result is ๐
Hiring ๐ผ
๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ USA and Canada
๐บ๐ธ Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
๐บ๐ธ Network Analyst II @ Honeywell, Permie, USA, MO
๐บ๐ธ Network Operations Engineer @ Okta, Permie, USA, Remote
๐จ๐ฆ Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
๐บ๐ธ Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, Remote
๐บ๐ธ Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
๐บ๐ธ Network Solutions Engineer @ Eli Lilly, Permie, USA, IN
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
๐บ๐ธ Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
๐บ๐ธ Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Network Operations and Development Engineer @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
๐บ๐ธ Network Dev Engineer, Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
๐บ๐ธ Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
โญ๏ธ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA โญ๏ธ
๐บ๐ธ Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
๐บ๐ธ Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
๐บ๐ธ IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
๐จ๐ฆ Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
๐บ๐ธ Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
๐บ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฌ Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
๐บ๐ธ Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+, USA
๐บ๐ธ Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
๐บ๐ธ Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ช UK and Ireland
๐ฌ๐ง Network and Security Architect @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Contract, UK, Manchester
๐ฌ๐ง Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
๐ฌ๐ง Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
๐ช๐บ Mainland Europe
๐ฌ๐ง Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
๐ฌ๐ง Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
๐ฌ๐ง Platform Infrastructure Lead (Networks) @ John Lewis, Permie, London
๐ฉ๐ช Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
๐ณ๐ฑ Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
๐ช๐ธ Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
๐ฉ๐ช Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
๐ณ๐ฑ DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
๐ท๐ด Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
๐จ๐ฟ Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
๐ Rest of World
๐ฎ๐ณ Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
๐ฎ๐ณ Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
๐ต๐ญ Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
๐ฎ๐ณ Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
๐ธ๐ฌ Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
๐ฎ๐ณ Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
๐ฆ๐บ Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
๐ธ๐ฌ Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
๐ฎ๐ณ Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
๐ธ๐ฌ Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
โญ๏ธ Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote โญ๏ธ
NotEng ๐ค
Qwen2.5 Coder will quickly become your favourite AI for coding over ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or anything else ๐ฆพ
How I got 27 hours in a week by installing one tool is kinda what youโre thinking but also not quite, AI comes to the Desktop ๐ฅ๏ธ
Build Products is over a decade old now but still solid advice if youโre finding the solopreneur fire is being lit within you ๐ฅ
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 byโฆ ๐ข
Why GitHub Actually Won in case youโre wondering why itโs so infamous that many people mistakenly think Git == GitHub these days ๐ค
Events ๐
๐ค Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
๐ข 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 ๐ญ
Announcing Infrahub 1.0 in case you missed it; Git meets NetBox meets CI/CD and makes a new type of NetDevOpsโimal ๐๐
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 ๐ฅ
Accelerated connections on NVAs or other VMs (Limited GA) boosts the SR-IOV-like capabilities of Azure SDN Networking to new heights ๐ค
CVE-2024-47575 Missing authentication in fgfmsd is pretty bad if youโve got a Fortinet device so get patching ๐ฉน
A Simple Strategy To Convert Your Pets Into Cattle is a slight reimagining of Network Lifecycle for a good cause ๐
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 ๐ช
Thatโs all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts youโd like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net ๐ฎ and weโll see if we can add them in ๐ฌ.