This week we add more jobs to our NetEng Job Board 📢; yelling at subnets, VPCs and TGWs in AWS 😡; chatting with VPC Flow logs using LangChain 🤖; how Backblaze built-out their new CA-East region 🇨🇦; navigating the AI Era as a CCIE 🛜; using Python in Excel to automate at work 💼; using Cursor AI correctly to save time in developing ⏱️; Skype shuts down for good ☎️ and play the Founding Engineer lottery to win 🎟️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Old man yells at subnets dives in to AWS Networking components like TGW, IGW, VPC, Private Endpoints and how it all routes together (or doesn’t…) ☁️
Using LangChain to Chat with AWS VPC Flow Logs helps you get to grips with all things AI and Agentic in a practical fashion, to make sense of the mass of data in VPC Flow Logs (think NetFlow, but in the Cloud) ⛅️
Network Stats: Launching the CA-East Region in Canada works through (with photos!) how Backblaze setup their new Canadian Data Centre, and the impact of this on their BGP peerings 🇨🇦
Building a host telemetry solution using Tailscale tunnels to prompt performance data in Akvorado to quickly visualise your WAN circuits and IX Peers with not a lot of Linux effort or YAML wrangling 🤠
Navigating the AI Era as a CCIE is useful reading even if you’re only a CCNA, CCNP - hell even a Network+ at this stage - the landscape has shifted around us, it’s no longer “CCIE and slippers on” territory 🥿
Network Automation Perspectives: Ansible & Cisco NSO in CI/CD Pipelines takes you through a lab in EVE-NG using Nexus 9k’s to bring it all together, using GitLab in the background 🥼
Loopback as a Service explores a differing way of doing nex-hop resolution in MPLS-based (and SR-based) SP Networks, with some useful ideas you could even apply to an Enterprise Network ⏮️
Learning 🎓
Nokia Event-Driven Automation: Simple, Reliable Data Center Automation
(Podcast, 18 mins, Beginner)100 Days of Nautobot challenge
(GitHub, 100 days, Beginner)NetBCN March 2025 - Modern Network Observability
(YouTube, 35 mins, Intermediate)NetBCN - March 2025 - Panel Network Automation
(YouTube, 2 hours, Intermediate)Comprehensive Python Cheatsheet
(GitHub, Advanced)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is finally 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
🇧🇬 Aruba WLAN Network Engineer @ HPE, Bulgaria, Sofia
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇬🇧 Network Firewall Architect @ NatWest Group, UK, London
🇬🇧 Head of Network Engineering @ MNB Networks, UK, Edinburgh
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Abbott, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Senior Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, USA, MA
🇵🇱 Intern Network Engineer @ Cisco, Poland, Krakow
NotEng 🤔
Urgent? For who? is definitely timely advice if you’re in a deluge of requests or Tickets and struggling to prioritise your time on higher-value stuff 🗓️
Unspoken git secrets that save you mountains of time as an engineer so
git commit -m “To it”and start saving yourself time and version control pain now 🤘I finally started using Python in Excel and I should have sooner even if you’re in a shop that doesn’t give you a Linux box or WSL in Windows, there’s no excuse not to apply some Python to your IPAM.xlsx in Excel now 📖
Ezra Klein’s new take on AGI – and why I think it’s probably wrong feels a bit like watching a soap opera from the sidelines without fully understanding the plot, but also gives some context on the AI / Agentic / AGI soup of activity at the minute 🤖
The Economics of Being a Founding Engineer can be a different way of making money for your IT Networking skills that isn’t like the traditional permie or contracting job markets, but feels a bit like a lottery where you get paid 🎫
Definancialization / Hyperfinancialization might make you ponder a bit about how you treat money, savings, cryptocurrency and what investing means in the modern age of AI and the Attention Economy 💰
You are using Cursor AI incorrectly... get Cursor (or Cline, Windsurf or Void) to build their rules engine up for themselves to get iteratively better, so you have to do less work 🙂↕️
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Managing Operational Drift with NetBox Assurance, Virtual, 25 March 2025
Peering Days 2025, Split, 25 - 27 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Massive Oracle Cloud Breach Compromises 6 Million Records, Over 140,000 Businesses At Risk, Says CloudSEK but you might still be safe as we doubt they’ll make much sense of the records if our experience with Oracle CRMs is anything to go by 🥁
BT gets set for network slicing with 'best 5G SA in Europe' after putting in CA (think LAG/LACP, but for cellular) to improve 5G mobile performance ⚡️
The Impact of AI on The Ethernet Switch Market because it is most definitely coming, but it doesn’t mean InfiniBand is going (hello, Ultra Ethernet) 🚦
New long-range Wi-Fi HaLow router hits the market for less than $100, up to 10-mile connectivity is absolutely incredible and reminds us of the Pringles cantenna wardriving days of old 🥫
Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology devices hijacked to major botnet because nothing is safe, not your SAN, not your WAN and not your PAN (if you even have one), sigh 😞
Skype is shutting down after two decades but “Teams me” just doesn’t have the same positive happy-thoughts vibes ☎️
Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns however from what we see on our Jobs Board, demand for Data Centre Network Engineering has never been higher 📈
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 💬.