Great Pexpectations
Great Pexpectations
Netshot for NMS; BGP Communities for IXP Peering; using a monolith for APIs; getting to grips with pplx-api; getting Devs to NetDevOps and more
This week we have been mostly eating reading Netshot NMS-alternative; forwarding BUM 🍑 frames on VXLAN; Beej getting Devs up 💪 to NetDevOps; getting to Lab as Code 👩🔬; AI and all those people wearing Vision Pro 🐱👓 goggles; commodifying Tech work and jobs 💼 galore and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Netshot is Configuration and Compliance Management Software to help you run, remediate and run your Network without a crappy 💩 NMS
Forwarding BUM Frames in VXLAN Network With Static Ingress Replication walks through how to deal with Broadcast-like traffic on VXLAN topologies 🍑
Beej's Guide to Network Concepts gives a Developer-centric 101 to all things Networking, and is a great read for te NetDevOps to understand Networking from a Developer 🧑💻 viewpoint
BGP community-based peering policy - Part 1 - Principles is part one of a wider series around using BGP Community and Blocking approaches to manage IXP Peerings 👩🔬
LINX120: Lab as Code with Containerlab Through Users Eyes is a short 13 minute video walking through the concept of Lab as Code using Containerlab 👨🔬
Hiring 💼
⭐ Developer - Network Automation @ Sky, Permie, UK, London ⭐
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer via Franklin Fitch, Permie, £75k, UK, Basingstoke
Network Infrastructure Engineer @ Met Office, Permie, £32k, UK, Devon
Senior Manager - NetDevOps @ United Airlines, Permie, USA, Chilcago IL
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Packet Network & Systems Architect @ Colt, Permie, Spain, Madrid
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality because that Black Mirror implant 🥚 episode is sadly about to come true
Maximise your Mac performance with Sensei and get your macOS back to where it used to be while having a cuppa ☕ (Windoze people should check out CCleaner)
Should you use a Lambda Monolith, aka Lambdalith, for your API? just don’t use Azure Functions unless you want to wait 1-2 coffee’s time for it to show the Function in the UI already 😤, cmon!
Getting Started with pplx-api is great documentation to get to grips with the awesome Perplexity.ai alternative we’re loving over ChatGPT at present 🤖
The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work expresses what you might be thinking when someone starts a sentence with “I’m not Technical, but…” 💀
Events 📅
Cisco Live! Europe, Amsterdam, 5-9 February 2024
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27-31 May 2024
Industry 🏭
Even OpenAI is tired of enterprise AI hype apparently it won’t fix all our problems? Who knew, eh? 🤔
HTTP/3 Is Now a Standard: Why Use It and How to Get Started but we’re about 1.9 HTTP’s behind now! (Do the math, get the.. 1.1.. HTTP/1… oh yeah 😏)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Gemini and the coming age of AI because
BellyBard is gonna get ya 🐖
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 💬.