This week migrating a Cisco WLC Network with NSoT 🔀; ExpressRoute, FastPath, UDR and VNETs galore ☁️; DevNet Expert journey in 7-parts 📚; PySkyWiFi using Airmiles as a TCP alternative ✈️; ASICs for Network Engineers 🧙; How to go about finding a job in 2025 🕵️♂️; Fibre Optics smash 400 Tbps 🥂 and NUTS the Network Unit Testing System 🐿️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Redux: Wireless Conversion discusses using NSoT to migrate from one Guest Wireless Network technology to another, and some learnings from the Cisco WLC gotchas 🛜
ExpressRoute FastPath for UDRs and VNet peering goes deep into this interesting Azure WAN-like technology, and might be interesting to keep pace with the SDCI goings on in your hybrid cloud ☁️
Slashing our AWS Bill at Levels.fyi is more Network Engineering heavy than you might have guessed at first glance, FinOps people in you come 💳
DevNet Expert Journey: Intensive Study Period - Part 2 of a seven-part series diatribes the ups and downs of learning for the Cisco DevNet cert, and is crammed full of advice and tips on how you can get there faster and smoother if this is you at the minute 🧐
NUTS Network Unit Testing System brings the software discipline practice to Network Engineering, and has a framework to bring it to life with the pytest framework on your network 🚧
PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights using an Airmiles database as a TCP packet exchange cache, now if we could just get the TCAM to spit us out some Avios… ✈️
Exploring Google Cloud networking enhancements for generative AI applications if you’re in the GCP space and playing about with all things LLM, AI, MCP or robot for money 🤖
Automating my Home Network – Part 1: The Plan brings home to work, specifically the network, and how you can orchestrate the thing you use to access the orchestrator at work for cash monies; it’s IaC all the way down 🐢
Learning and Tools 🎓⚒️
Ironies of automation
(Paper, 1 hour)British Library: Learning lessons from the cyber-attack
(Paper, 18 pages)The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced
(Video, 18 mins, Beginner)ASICs for Network Engineers
(Video, 30 mins, Intermediate)
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
🇭🇰 Network Engineer @ Tower, Hong Kong
🇬🇧 Senior Production Network Engineer @ Warner Brothers Discovery, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Design Engineer @ Network Rail, UK, Manchester
🇺🇸 Senior Wireless Network Engineer @ Anduril Industries, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Developer @ CoreWeave, USA, NJ/NY/CA/WA
🇲🇽 Network Engineer @ Plata, Mexico, Mexico City
NotEng 🤔
Panic! at the Job Market adds some interesting stats to the current “market pain” you might be feeling with the job market in IT at present 📈
Everything I know about How to Start a Company in a handy slide deck, in case you wanted to go it alone this year and begin your multi-billion dollar empire 💰
Gotchas with SQLite in Production other than the top #1 being that it isn’t as cool as flat-file, it does have a few drawbacks for the awesome performance gains and simplicity in database management the approach brings 💡
Modern Luddites: On Being a Digital Minimalist Family in a Tech-Saturated World has a differing opinion on screen time and the pervasive nature of modern technology in general that might take you back to your younger days 🐣
Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job? is a great thread to glean insight into the more modern and unusual ways of finding the thing that puts a roof over your head 🏠
Self Hosting 101 - A Beginner's Guide if you’re sick of every other click you do on the Internet being entering payment details or signing up for an account, roll your own 🪣
Why doesn't advice work? goes deep on the root of the issue of trying to give others help, but if you want our advice… 🧹
Lessons learned in 35 years of making software are hard truths that apply to Network Engineering too, learn the hard way or don’t learn at all 🦻
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
MORE-IP, Amsterdam, 4-5 June 2025
NANOG 94, Denver, 9 - 11 June 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
SwiNOG 40, Switzerland, 24 June 2025
NetUK2, London, 7 - 8 July 2025
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
New Fiber Optics Tech Smashes Data Rate Record smashes the record to over 402 Terrabits per second over strands of glass in the ground 🚤
“RegreSSHion” vulnerability in OpenSSH gives attackers root on Linux is a year old now but still around the other CVE soup of attack vectors 🍜
State of Cloud Costs still doesn’t have Networking or Bandwidth Transfer as high as it should be for those “How much per Gig?” moments 📈
The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants and they’ll be knocking on your door and selling your own GPT watch back to you to prompt you for the time any day now 🚪
Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention and we wonder if this has happened yet or not, any helpers? 📚
Key hyperscalers and chip makers gang up on NVIDIA’s NVSWITCH interconnect but it’s still one of the few choices you have for AI Networking using CUDA ⛴️
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good if those AI-generated SERPS aren’t quite hitting the spot you wanted 🔎
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 💬.