This week we become the Type-A Network Killers 💀; bridge the gap to GitOps for Network Engineers 👩💻; see new Data Centre protocols for AI 🤖; learn why 1436 is the magic number for GRE Tunnels 🚟; build a Catalyst SD-WAN Homelab for free 🆓; use .localhost domains to clean up our labs 🥼; think the Enterprise is dead 😵; work at the pace of our Organisation’s product cycle 🔁 and watch APAC go 50% IPv6 already 📈. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
The Type-A Network Killers isn’t an OSPF thing you missed, it’s a type of person you just might be or need to get stuff in Networks done 💪
Bridging the Gap: GitOps for Network Engineers - Part 1 lays the foundation of going from zero to GitOps, tool-by-tool, one Use Case at a time ⌛️
New Data Center Protocols Tackle AI because connecting GPUs running full pelt is a tad different to running CPUs that mostly hum unused out of hours 💰
Grafana and VNet Flow Logs lets you do NetFlow to the Cloud without the complexity or pain of managing a NetFlow Analyser, read on 👓
DNS, SFTP, and FTPS: Why Firewalls Handle These Protocols Differently, and wh-SNI stuff on them isn’t the same from an inspection view 😩
GRE Tunnels and TCP MSS 1436 is one of those important numbers you need to memorise, like 1472 and 1500 itself; sadly, that GRE Tunnel is gonna steal some bytes ♆
Build a Catalyst SDWAN 20.12.3 Home Lab and 10 hours of free-learning later you too will have SDA’d that entire thing together and know the SD-WAN ways 💀
Introduction to Microsegmentation it might not be what you think, and it paves your way to a true Zero Trust Network fit for the future 🕵️♂️
Learning 🎓
Towards agentic operation: Realizing the autonomous network
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)Deploying a whole network topology from a prompt with AI Agents
(Video, 15 mins, Intermediate)Bjorn - sophisticated, autonomous network scanning, vulnerability assessment
(GitHub Repo, InfoSec)Gitlab CI/CD and Runners - A Beginners Guide
(Video, 10 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
🇬🇧 OT Network Engineer @ Anglian Water, UK, Lincoln
🇬🇧 Network Engineering Professional @ BT, UK, Halifax
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ thredd, UK, London
🇺🇸 Pre-Sales Network Engineer @ Netris, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 HPC Network Engineer @ TensorWave, USA, NV
NotEng 🤔
.localhost domains is a different way of running more than one VM or vhost on your local lab rig, without having to change the hosts file too much 🤔
Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices - spoiler alert: nobody can even agree what they are… ⚙️
Slashing AWS Costs with Athena, VPC Flow logs & VPC Endpoints if you’ve ever wanted to delve into FinOps using some of your Network o11y skills for the financial good 🦸
Enterprise is Dead but not in the way you think, Big E has a lot of catching up to the SMB and SME to do, in a world where billion dollar companies increasingly service B2C over B2B 🧐
WASM will replace containers has strong opinions that you couldn’t, erm, contain-er too well? We’re not sure on this one, but WebAssembly has some good mileage to help lots of issues 🍿
The Goal of AI in ITOps is Operational Improvement. That’s it (IT?). That’s the game. It turns out we’re not as good as Operations as we might have thought (who knew, ITIL?) 😆
Organisations think at the pace of their product life cycle which can be a bitter pill to swallow if you’re well-read and in the industry and in a company that, well, isn’t; impedance is real 🐌
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
Wi-Co Bringing The Herd Together, Toronto, 30 April
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
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
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
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
Colt selling eight European data centers it acquired from Lumen EMEA makes us wonder if there’s an Airbnb-like model for the Carrier Hotel nobody has thought about 🎸
Asia-Pacific hits 50% IPv6 capability which we’re willing to be is 49% more than your current Employer (tell us in the Poll above, scroll up) ⬆️
A Network Connection 10 to 100 Times Faster than a Conventional Starlink Antenna, and for Much Less: Taara Breaks Away from Google to Shine Alone with Its Lasers if it weren’t 2025 we wouldn’t believe it, needs more AI there though 🛎️
Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’? can’t think of many reasons this might be, isn’t the latency like X times worse on LEO? 📡
Openreach Reveal UK Price for 1Gbps Symmetric FTTP Broadband is worth a read if you stopped keeping track when DOCSIS 2 and LLU were things they just introduced 👀
T-Mobile is offering its Starlink satellite texting feature for free until July to try out SMS-over-LEO for no additional charge, worth a moonshot 🌑
Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over, and if you name your children little Bobby DROP TABLES;… 💥
Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform and released as a GitHub Gist too, worth a read 🍿
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 💬.