LANing for AI GPU gold
Understanding NSX multitenancy; stopping self-sabotage as a new CTO; abusing SSO to takeover accounts; learning from 20 years of SRE; building wooden DCs and more
This week we replace iPerf with an internal SpeedTest 💨; learn ISP-grade BGP in a lab 🕸️; Wireshark our k8s 🦈; remember the good old box days 👴🏾 of NetEng; deal with Recruiters 👔 for our benefit; try and understand the GPU goldrush and apply for a billion NetDevOps jobs 💼. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
In Partnership 🤝 with DevNet Academy 🎓 the Cisco DevNet Expert Training Academy
NetEng 🔧
OpenSpeedTest: Check the Speed of your LAN via Web Browser without having to resort to iPerf or open up your airgapped ⛩️ Internet access
Open-Source BGP Configuration Labs is a fantastic guided way to play with BGP nerd knobs ☂️ like Route Filtering, PBR, Multi-homing, RPL and more ISP fun
Network Observability For Kubernetes Part 1: KubeShark teaches you how to Wireshark k8s: Go container 📦 deep on that Service Mesh flow
How Is Networking Changing? hits a real neve; Remember CCIEs? Remember Route Switch Modules? Pepperidge Farm Remembers 👀
NSX Multitenancy – Part 2 – NSX Projects follows Part 1 to go deep 🤿 on VMware NSX concepts like T1, T0, Segments and more
Hiring 💼
⭐ Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London ⭐
Senior Network Engineer SD-WAN (Viptela) @ CACI, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Operations Engineer @ Google, Permie, UK (Remote), SC/NSV Clearance
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Automation Engineer via Sterlings, Permie, £80k+, UK, Camberley/Bromley/Chester
Senior Network Automation Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £70k+, UK, London (Remote)
NetDevOps Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Contract, €475+ day, France, Lille
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
Simple sabotage for software is either advice for being a first-time CTO, or an easy way on the Supply Chain Attack bandwagon 🚃
Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter just automate your responses to them to deal with the smarm, oh the smarm, the smarm! 🤢
Nvidia Envy: understanding the GPU gold rush is probably akin to where we were with Bitcoin Miner ⛏️ ASICs back in the day (anyday now Butterfly Labs, you’re just turning my corner with the delivery right?)
Oh-Auth - Abusing OAuth to take over millions of accounts is SSO pertinent to understanding why SAML is easy to scam-le 🔓 into your estate
Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Engineering makes us feel old, but once NRE starts taking over as the NetOps acronym for SRE, we’ll be happy 🎯
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 🏭
Japanese engineers break record, 20x global internet traffic per second because that anime and manga isn’t going to pipe 🚇 itself out of the Geisha isles
Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes but don’t tell IKEA or they’ll get a new idea for a Rackenstakka 🔧 furni piece
Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies solves the puzzle of what that guy from Star Trek was fortelling us; hope it’s not as 🧖 sarcastic…
NetDevOps Days and AutoCon Join Forces to Accelerate Booming Network Automation Community - it’s going to be an awesome 👍 AutoCon 1, see you there?
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 💬.