Latte to the AI vibe coding party
Mocha of that what you will
This episode we packet capture all the encrypted DNS alternatives 🔒; takeaway Flock9 from AutoCon 4 🕊️; watch traceroute bend the laws of space-time 🕰️; think we don’t need Wi-Fi 7 (but we do) ✨; visualise MIMO gains with a cool tool 🌊; integrate Azure Route Server with Infoblox 🔀; learn how to Design Network Automation at scale 🚛; snort for AGI with Claude Code 🐽 and write to the youngsters about the coming AI thing and them 👵. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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DNS Packet Capture: DoT, DoH, DoQ, DoH3 because the D in DNS is about the only consistent thing when you look at it’s encrypted, newer equivalents 🔏
AutoCon4 Takeaway: Flock9 Announced bringing Slurpit, Netpicker and NetBox even closer together 🍕
MX301 Deepdive for those of you deep in the Juniper and Enterprise or Service Provider realms 🕯️
Enterprise AP Comparison Database is the Wi-Fi comparison tool you didn’t know you needed already 🛜
Visualizing All of the World’s Data Centers in 2025 because there’s more and more than you think you knew about; Equinix might run out of letters and numbers at this rate 🛟
traceroute breaks the time-space continuum! breaks down some interesting behaviours seen on RTTs in a traceroute, and might leave you questioning your reliance on commands like
pingin future… 🤔Do we need Wi-Fi 7 in our Enterprise Network? poses some questions you might have thought about back in the 512 Kbps broadband days before websites changed to download 1 TB of tracking and ad data for every useful 1 KB of data; things do change over time 🕰️
Training 🎓
🏦 Cisco U CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:
Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
(Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)
🪚 Tools
DNSMap DNS Propagation Check
(DNS, Checker, Internet)CLOUDPerf Cloud Latency Check
(Cloud, Latency, RTT)xDNS DNS Manager for BIND
(DNS, BIND, Commercial)
🎓 Learning
MIMO Gain Visualiser
(Tool, Wi-Fi, Radio Engineering)Integrating Azure Route Server with Infoblox NIOS
(Tutorial, DNS, Cloud and API)
🎥 Videos and Papers
The DNS course for developers
(Tutorial, DNS, DNS, DNS…)Modern Network o11y (Round 3)
(Video, YouTube, 1 hour)Designing Network Automation at Scale
(eBook, NetDevOps, Systems)
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 👂
🤫 Secret Subscriber-only Jobs
🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ A Vendor, UK, London/Remote
🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ A Bank, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ A FinTech, UK, London/Hybrid
🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ Viasat, Australia, Remote
🇨🇦 Network Automation Developer @ TELUS, Canada, Edmonton
🇩🇪 Network Systems Engineer @ Serco, Germany, Darmstadt
🇮🇳 Network Site Reliability Engineer @ NVIDIA, India, Hyderabad
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ DXC, UK, Gloucester
🇨🇦 Network Engineer @ Cerebras Systems, Canada, Toronto
🇮🇪 Production Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ QRT, UK, London
🇺🇸 Zero Trust Network Engineer @ SoFi, USA, FL/NY
NotEng 🤔
How Ireland became the weak spot in Europe’s defences especially for the Internet series of tubes that passes through it’s many and various Cloud Provider shores 🪈
Snorting the agi with claude code gives some recipes to bring together all the settings,
.mdand other files to make Claude Code work for you instead of you working for it 🧘Coding agents have crossed a chasm and are becoming another normal part of the developer workflow, no more unusual than Merging a PR just before making a brew ☕️
Letter to a Young Person Worrying About AI applies regardless of your age, and reminds everyone what you already know; if you were that good at predicting the future, then you’d be better off using it to win the lottery already 🎟️
Stop Coding and Start Planning surely needs to be called “vibe planning” if its ever going to take off in practice 🤖
Save your disk, write files directly into RAM with /dev/shm might be a performance optimisation for some of your scripts you didn’t know you needed yet 🧨
HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere and you know this to be
HTTP/1.1 GETtrue if you check half the proxy logs of where your people are browsing to 🧐
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025
CHNUG, Switzerland, 4 December 2025
LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026
APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026
Industry 🏭
Introducing flat-rate pricing plans with no overages might just be the alternative for you AWS people to pay-per-Gig Cloud data transfer pricing that keeps you up at night 🛌
Arelion launches built-in SecureConnect DDoS mitigation solutions for enterprise and wholesale customers amid rising AI threats is DIA, but not as we know it, Jim 🚀
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 which you might have noticed, but did you want the full details, in full-full? 👗
SilentButDeadly – Network Communication Blocker Tool That Neutralizes EDR/AV hopefully not coming to defeat some endpoint security near you soon 🦠
Networking students need an explanation of the internet that can fit in their heads and academia has a lot to say for not helping to make this easier for newbie Network Admins 🎓
Attackers turned Citrix, Cisco 0-day exploits into custom-malware hellscape because patching makes perf… more patching? 🩹
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 💬.