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"You approved my RFC in last week's CAB, don't make me TCAB it again dammit!"
This week we’ve got benchmarking your HTTP and NAT Gateways with wrk ⚒️; understanding Cisco ISR licensing 👩🔬; DevOps for Networking videos ▶️; late 2024 Network Industry predictions 🚀; ponderings on AI and the automation of work 😭; 12 modern CSS one-liners for your Frontend 🧑💻; NIST dropping the ball 🎳 on CVEs and - of course - an essential read 📕 to master AWS Cloud. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
wrk modern HTTP benchmarking tool is great for stress testing Web Apps, but also for running load against Load Balancers, Firewalls and other NAT Gateways and their many and varied pesky nuances 🐝
Cisco ISR1k platform licensing explained as things got more complex than just IP Base vs Enterprise Services; this explainer helps understand Cisco’s licensing soup 🍜
Network Continuous Integration and Delivery is an oldie but goody, especially if you
hatestrongly dislike where ITIL and related RFC, CAB and FCR culture has left Networking in the Enterprise 🗿VLANs on SR Linux have a more JSON-like structure than you might expect coming in from
switchport encap dot1q 99Cisco world 🗺️DevOps for Network Engineers (1h 2 m) is the first video of multiple in this series helping you get familiar with DevOps practices with a Network-specific slant 🛜
Food for Thought: Savoring a Feast of Networking Predictions is about 4 months too late, but it’s technically a new tax year for some countries, so we’ll take it… 🔮
Hiring 💼
Senior Systems Engineer Smart Routing @ Cloudflare, Permie, USA (Remote)
Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, Portugal (Lisbon) or UK (London)
Network Engineer @ Pandora, Permie, Thailand, Bangkok
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TX/TN/WA
IPU Software Product Manager Cloud and Networking @ Intel, Permie, $140k+, USA, TX/OR/CA/MA
Senior Technical Support Engineer @ Aryaka, India, Bengaluru
Principal Solutions Architect - Project Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, Australia, Sydney
Senior Engineer Network Automation @ Sony, Permie, $160k+, USA, TX/CA/MA/CO
Lead Network Automation Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson, Permie, Belgium, Antwerp
Network Automation Solutions Developer @ Nokia, Permie, $43k, India, Bengaluru
Senior Lead Network Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, $143k+, USA (Remote)
Network Solutions Consultant @ Juniper, Permie, $102k+, USA (Remote)
Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, $158k+, USA, TX/CA/NJ
Network and NetDevOps Engineer @ Airbus, Permie, France, Marseille
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA (Remote)
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Storing Credentials and Configuration Values Securely with a .env File in Python because once you go Secrets Manager, you never go back to putting
password55in your code, oh wait we should take that out… 🫣What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'? well, it depends - especially if you’re running on Cloud, then it sure it’s physical, but… 🕳️
Iximiuz DevOps Challenges lets you test your knowledge against real-world issues like Proxy Port Chaining, Port Forwarding and Container NAT all from the comfort of your web browser 💺
12 Modern CSS One-Line Upgrades for those of your using and abusing Frontend to make your WebApp work better, load faster or just work with old Internet Explorer version
{insert_swear_here}🤬AI and the automation of work ponders a future where we’ll clock off for work later rather than earlier because of the increased efficiencies AI brings; those words don’t add up… 🧐
Events 📅
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 - 11 April 2024
FutureNet World, London, 16-17 April 2024
AWS Summit, London, 24 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, Amsterdam, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
Learn and earn 16 Continuing Education credits with the latest Cisco Rev Up to Recert Network Assurance program and get yourself most of the way towards recertifying your CCNA or CCNP without sitting an exam 🍎
4.5 million times faster internet? Aston University makes it possible but you can bet it’ll just be “up to” with contention once your local ISP sells it to your house 🏡
A top cyber research agency [NIST] slowed work on crucial security database without warning which might be a problem if you’re relying on CVEs to protect your Network estate ⛫
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often going back on the “pets vs cattle” debate and settling somewhere on “Daisy the moo-cow will make nice burgers one day, but not today” 🐄
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 💬.