This (delayed) week we add even more jobs to our NetEng Job Board 📢; how cellular mobile networks work 📲; you don’t know Jack about bandwidth 🚝; using the NVIDIA Air Platform to build a lab 🥼; Cross-Cloud Networking ☁️; Oncall shifts should be Tuesday to Tuesday 📆; Dark web for dummies 🧅 and an 87-slide treasure trove on all things AI 🤖. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
How Mobile Networks Work takes you through cellular, from HLR, VLR, 3GPP, LTE, RAN… it’s just a very different world to the IP Networks you’re probably used to 🎓
You Don’t Know Jack about Bandwidth introduces what LibreQoS is, does, and the common confusion between bandwidth and speed 🏃
Maximizing Efficiency with Network Automation in AWS, Azure, and GCP covers all the clouds and all the ways you can use IaC, Orchestration and Automation to wrangle them all 🤠
The other shift left movement or why zero trust access is shifting to the endpoint (Part 1) because microsegmentation has never been so cool, or so close to your typing fingers 🫱
Linux Network Performance Ultimate Guide tin, what it says, does on for all things Networking in Linux, kernel, iptables, netstat, ss, ufw… this one is for you 🤓
DHCPv6-PD - First steps does what you probably shouldn’t have to (SLAAC is the future) and explores what happens when you do ✊
NVIDIA Air Infrastructure Simulation Platform makes digital twin and labbing real for SONIC, Cumulus and other new-age networking gear you might want to play with 🕹️
Learning 🎓
Learning Python for Network Engineers
(Online Course, starts May 6th)Querying Data In Infrahub Via The Python SDK
(Tutorial, Intermediate, 4 hours)Active Passive HA Setup on FortiGate Firewall
(YouTube, Beginner, 8 mins)Cross-Cloud Networking: DNS Design
(YouTube, Beginner, 6 mins)Cross-Cloud Networking: VPC Networking
(YouTube, Beginner, 7 mins)Cross-Cloud Networking: Hybrid Connectivity
(YouTube, Beginner, 6 mins)
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
🇩🇪 Principal Network Automation Architect @ Inter.link, Germany, Remote
🇬🇧 Principal Network Specialist @ British Transport Police, UK, London
🇬🇧 NetDev System Engineer @ Cloudflare, UK, London
🇺🇸 Senior GPU Network Engineer @ DigitalOcean, USA, Remote
NotEng 🤔
What Your Mamma Never Told You About "Asking So Many Questions" - A Short Perspective By An Architect because you need to keep asking until it makes sense for when others inevitably ask you ☯️
You can't rely on people being good and not just because they’re intrinsically rubbish either, people have different incentives to yours 💡
What Is a Neural Net, Anyway? if you were curious how the transformers of AI do the do and store information in vectors and vertices instead of traditional byte format 🤖
Oncall shift should be Tuesday to Tuesday because it might make you hate Mondays less and makes the handoff more seamless 📆
Stanford research on Software Engineer productivity in a Twitter bite-sized format for your delectation 🍽️
Dark web for dummies if you’ve heard of this TOR and onion thing and want in, but not too far in that you’ll get arrested 👮
AI, and everything else is an 87-slide treasure trove about all things AI, LLM, AI Startup, Industry predictions and… just read it already! 🚨
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
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
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
Industry 🏭
Vietnam plans to convert all its networks to IPv6 and expand it’s submarine cables and growing infrastructure as the IPv6-land of choice 🇻🇳
Lasers could take broadband where fiber optics can’t and we hope they call the first ISP to use this FRIKKIN or BEAMS 🕺
The Future Of Networking: Embracing AI And Cloudification With Private Connectivity Fabric is a sales pitch, but expect to hear more SPs talking about “fabric” as time goes on ⏰
Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast Static IPs could be interesting if you want to make AWS look and feel more like GCP’s native Internet-facing Anycast services 🏰
Pots and Pans, AKA an SSLVPN - Palo Alto PAN-OS CVE-2024-0012 and CVE-2024-9474 another week, another popular Firewall vuln involving Remote Access VPN 🔐
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 💬.