This week we forward over 100 Mpps with FD.io 🐕; learn the only 6 concepts for DNS you need 📕; manage over 14,000 Network Devices with Python 🐍; do the jhanas without breaking a sweat 😰; gain 165 pages of Situational Awareness about AI 🤖; thrive in the second act of our Engineering Career 🎬 and have a Network Engineering job paying nearly half a million a year 🤯! Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Forwarding over 100 Mpps with FD.io VPP on x86 is part one of a two-part series nerdy deep-dive into NFV, DPDK and related aspects you need in your life 💎
You’re Closer Than You Think: The Only 6 DNS Concepts You Really Need including 1) it was DNS, 2) it was DNS, 3) it was DNS and… 📕
Recommended Internet Infrastructure Services APIs for Developers makes you realise a surprising amount of ISP and Internet infrastructure is now only an API call away from your fingertips 👇
Pushing Python To Its Limits By Managing 14,000 Network Devices is the walk-through on using Python with Network Automation in the wild that you need to read if you’re working with multiple devices 🎹
GuestShell and NX-OS bash Development and Testing: PART 4 as the name suggests is one of a great series of posts exploring using the Guest Shell Linux container on Cisco Nexus kit 🚢
Hiring 💼
Network Engineer @ CACI, Permie, India, Pune
Professional Services Engineer (US Timezone) @ NetBox Labs, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior Network Engineer @ HFT via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £300k+, UK, London
Network Engineer @ G-Research, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Hedge Fund via Saragossa, Permie, £140k+, UK, London
IT Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA
Senior Consultant Network Automation @ Network to Code, Permie, Europe (Remote)
Senior Network Engineer @ Warner Bros Discovery, Permie, UK, London
Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) @ Arista, Permie, Germany
Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote
⭐️ Network DevOps Engineer @ Ocado Technology, Permie, UK, Hatfield ⭐️
Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Research Manager Network Programmability @ BT Group, UK, Bristol
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Product Support Engineer Tier 3 @ Cato Networks, Permie, UK, London
⭐️ Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore ⭐️
Network Reliability Manager @ CME Group, Permie, UK, London
NetDevOps Observability Engineer @ Citi, Permie, USA, TX
Net DevOps Engineer @ DriveWealth, Permie, $160k+, USA, Remote
Network Engineer II @ Booking.com, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+,USA
Solutions Architect - Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, Singapore
Network DevOps Engineer @ SAP, Permie, Hungary, Budapest
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
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
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
The Second Act: Thriving as an Experienced Technologist is a thought-provoking read on what it means to become more Senior in the tech world, and what additional skills and competencies you might want to explore 🗺️
Against the Burden of Knowledge explores if new ideas really are harder to find these days 🕵️♂️
How to do the jhanas and we promise it’s not a new street drug, it’s a way of life - “it means no worries, for the rest of your days; it’s a problem-free, philoso…” 🎶
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you no matter how hard you prompt it 👨💻
Situational Awareness is 165 pages of analysis into what the entire future - from jobs to society to school and beyond - is going to look like, post-AI 🤖
Events 📅
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
NANOG 92, Toronto, 21 - 23 October 2024
ONUG AI Networking Summit, New York, 23 - 24 October 2024
AI-NATIVE NOW, Zurich, 29 October 2024
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
Industry 🏭
AWS Direct Connect announces native 400 Gbps Dedicated Connections at select locations which is about 399 Gbps faster than we think we’d ever need 🚦
Cloudflare blames recent outage on BGP hijacking incident if only everyone had better MANRS this might not happen as frequently 🍴
Leveraging no-code automation for efficient network operations is a short interview with the CEO of NetBrain for his thoughts on NetDevOps and Network Automation 🎬
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode is mostly fixed now, but a fascinating read on something you may not have considered in your DDoS Strategy - eliciting HTTP Error codes on purpose for cash monies 🏧
Introducing the Verified Peering Provider program, a simple alternative to Direct Peering like an IX but with an arbiter in between meaning you might not need to do MLPE 📈
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 💬.