This week hunting Network Threats with Packet Captures 🔎; Engineer2Architect Labs to accelerate your career 🚀; free access to O’Reilly Practical Guide to Modern Networking Telemetry 🆓; IPv6 Guide for Engineers and Operators 📘; an hour’s content oin EVPN Fundamentals 🍿; TinyPilot Raspberry Pi as a KVM 🥧; running Terraform at scale for hundreds of applies a day 😱 and diving deep into MCP from several angles 🏊. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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How To Hunt Web And Network-Based Threats From Packet Capture To Payload uses Wireshark to enable good by preventing bad, through the power of PCAP 🕵️♀️
Let's talk about the elephant (flow) in the room! and no surpr-AI-ses for guessing what technologies it’s about 🤖
Engineer2Architect Labs are curated labs to take you from Network Engineer to Network Architect with the help of five detailed labs including Nagios, Ansible, Arista, FRR and more 🐔
O’Reilly Practical Guide to Modern Networking Telemetry is just a preview but worth a read for good, detailed - free - advice on o11y in your Network setup 👓
Implementation and Performance Evaluation of TCP over QUIC Tunnels if you want to geek out on why HTTP/3 is much faster and more different than the well-known HTTP predecessors, as well as other uses for QUIC protocol 🚇
Running an Effective Network Operations Centre (NOC) is a practical 15-step guide to everything you need to run a NOC; if you’re of the ITIL “faith” this will be familiar to you, in a more real way 🪜
Azure Firewall and Service Endpoints is a deep-dive into using Private Link (think a NAT of an Azure PaaS) in conjunction with the Azure Firewall itself, and some sharp edges on implementing it 🔥
IPv6 Architecture and Subnetting Guide for Network Engineers and Operators goes
de:ee:p on all things IPv6 (yeah, we tried;ca:feorde:ad:be:efis a better one…) from Architecture, Design to Day 2 Operations and beyond 🔮
Learning and Tools 🎓⚒️
DNS Speed Test Benchmark - Find the Fastest DNS Server for Your Location
Colt: “Evolving Network Architectures” at MPLS & SRv6 WC Paris 2025
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)Cloud WAN Deep Dive on Cross-Site Interconnect
(Video, 20 mins, Intermediate)AI Agents, Clearly Explained
(Video, 10 mins, Beginner)Public Videos: EVPN Fundamentals
(Video, 45 mins, Beginner-Expert)
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
🇩🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Nebius, Germany, Berlin
🇮🇳 Network Automation Specialist @ Airbus, India, Bangalore
🇮🇪 Global Network OSS Lead @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 Network Infrastructure Specialist @ Lloyds Banking Group, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Senior Network Design Engineer @ Sky, UK, London
🇺🇸 Senior Network Operations Engineer @ Oracle, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Distinguished NetDevOps Engineer @ Capital One, USA, VA/TX
NotEng 🤔
The “S” in MCP Stands for Security or lack thereof in the newest protocol offering on the AI netblock 🔓
How We Run Terraform At Scale at Benchling for over 165k cloud resources to perform 225
terraform applycommands daily and moved state files to Terraform Cloud in the process ☁️TinyPilot: Build a KVM Over IP for Under $100 using a Raspberry Pi and with a fascinating insight into how ffmpeg codecs deal with lag under various scenarios 🐌
Scarcity and Abundance in 2025 is going to look increasingly different to what it used to, and you’ll never guess which two-letter acronym is to bl-AI-me for it 😅
MCP (Model Context Protocol): Simply explained in 5 minutes because this is going to come up in an App on your Network before you know it 📕
A Deep Dive Into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling is the other side of this if you want to read in depth (much and many) about the interplay of MCP and AI 🪔
The Startup CTO’s Handbook has sage advice even if you’re not a CTO, not at a startup or not sure why any of this would impact your daily read; have a skim, you’ll be surprised (in a good way) 😦
Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code can also easily apply where the “code” is a Cisco IOS-XE config file, FortiOS config statement, Juniper SRX set command or… 💪
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
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 🏭
Announcing the general availability of Route-Maps for Azure virtual WAN brings RPL and Route Maps from your on-premises into your Azure Cloud 🌧️
What’s new with Google Cloud networking is best answered with “loads, and they’re coming for your Telco/ISP next”, read on 🔎
Microsoft Abandons Data Center Projects, TD Cowen Says even more than the other ones we disclosed earlier, times they are a changing 🙈
Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server follows suit with the above, more and more on-premises-like Network Engineer functionality is coming to each Cloud provider ☁️
Confirmed: Google buys Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security and we’re very late to it, not to be confused with Whizlabs which is, err, something else…
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 💬.