This week 2025 State of Network Automation Survey 🗳️; whole IPv6 curriculum for free 🆓; netlab 2.0.0 brings SP fun like SRv6 🚛; VqLAN is not VXLAN or VDOM ☎️; evolve into the Network Engineer of tomorrow with AI 🤖; go inside the Stargate AI Data Centre ⛪️; MCP vs AI 🥊; Leaving with Intention from your job 🤘 and AI takes it all over by 2027 apparently 😵💫. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Public Videos: Whole IPv6 Curriculum is nearly 20 hours of free content about all things IPv6 from Enterprise deployment through NAT considerations (i.e. don’t 😜) and more for the IPv4 convert 😵💫
netlab 2.0.0: Hosts, Bridges, and SRv6 updates the infamous Network Lab suite to include a host of Service Provider goodies, get involved now 🚚
Bad IPv6 Approaches is so good we think we’ve already featured it again, but just like NATing an IPv4 packet unnecessarily causes duplication on the wire, we’re doing it https://again:again (DNAT: https://again:again) ©️
Want to avoid errors: FEC this out! decomposes the little-known FEC technique that helps you, DSL and other carrier technologies across the world reassemble mangled frames to get useful throughput ⏩
Evolving into the Network Engineer of Tomorrow: Using Generative AI, LLMs, and AI to Supercharge Your Network Game don’t fight it, use it to improve your day and do more with less time (ProTip: GPT + Change Request draft = Happy Engineer) 😎
VqLAN: Firewalla Microsegmentation is kinda like VXLAN and VDOMs but kinda not, and was certainly new on us 🚦
AI Infrastructure takes you through AI Network Fabrics including RoCEv2, InfiniBand, PFC, ECN, QoS (urgh), RDMA and more stuff you’ll vaguely remember from the FCoE storage network days; what’s old is new ag-AI-n 🤖
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
99% of Developers Don't Get MCP
(Video, 10 mins, Beginner)HN780: The Whys and Hows of Automated Network Testing
(Podcast, 1 hour, Beginner)ECE 416 Extra Presentation: Congestion Control: TCP Cubic, LEDBAT, and BBR
(Video, 25 mins, Intermediate)Hybrid DNS with Route 53 Resolver: Setup & Whiteboard Live - Part 1
(Tutorial, 1 hour, Intermediate)HW052: How Capable Is My Wi-Fi Client?
(Podcast, 25 mins, Beginner)
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 Administrator @ Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Dusseldorf
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Opticore, UK, London
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Equifax, USA, MO
🇺🇸 Network Production Engineer @ Meta, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Lead Data Center Engineer @ xAI, USA, TN
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, USA, VA
NotEng 🤔
The Homework is the Cheat Code: GenAI Policy in my Computer Science Graduate Classroom is the progress in Education (Educ-AI-tion?) we need to see to prepare our kids for the future 🤖
Inside the First Stargate AI Data Center takes you inside the new mega Data Centre beasts and gives a sneak peak to what the future of borg-sized DCs might look like 👷🏽♂️
MCP vs API contrasts the two approaches to M2M communications which have more parallels than you might first think 🤔
The Copilot Delusion isn’t going to code you out of a paper bag if you don’t even know that paper comes from trees, and bags need holes in them so the air gets let out from walking 🍿
2025 Guide to Prompt Engineering in your editor for Software Engineers is useful for Network, Infrastructure and most other Engineers too; just like at the gym, reps improve prompts - do you even prompt, bruv? 💪
Leaving with Intention if you’re feeling overworked, have recently been laid off (HugOps ❤️) or can’t extinguish the entrepreneurial urge to go it alone 👓
AI 2027 is a cool (cruel?) interactive guide to what our utopian (or dystopian?) future might look like, month-by-month until AGI ends it all in 2027; we’ve had a good run 🏃
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
SwiNOG 40, Switzerland, 24 June 2025
Networkshop 2025, Nottingham, 24 - 25 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 🏭
Cloudflare blocks record 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack against hosting provider soon it’ll be double-digit Terrabits flooding our way from the swarms of IoT Toaster and Fridge botnets, sour milk never tasted so…. bandwidthy? 🥛
Microsoft: June Windows Server security updates cause DHCP issues so if you’re using AD DHCP maybe, erm, don’t? Split-brain DHCP is going to be the least of your worries… 🧠
Google IPv6 Adoption Statistics says nearly a fifth of the Internet is native v6, and Teredo is - as you probably guessed - not that popular an approach 📊
AWS WAF now supports automatic application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection is a response to the evolution in DoS attack techniques, it’s not just volumetrics you need to worry about 🚫
Cisco returns to load balancing market as it chases VMware refugees remember when your ACE Modules and 4710’s went EoL? Well they’re back… kinda… ish… if you squint a bit? 🚜
Making network automation consumable: A junior engineer’s perspective talks about getting into the NetDevOps world of SoT, IPAM, DCIM, Swagger and becoming full stack 🍽️
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 💬.