This week we add more jobs to our NetEng Job Board 📢; discover why Internet Resilience is broken 😞; implement MCP Servers with F5 Load Balancers 🔄; use LLDP to troubleshoot the network on Linux 🐧; get socket-level deep with Linux Networking 🔌; learn about the QNodeOS for Quantum Networks 💥; bisect a secret Python function or two 🐍; question why Ashburn is the Data Centre capital of the world 🌍 and bring you 50+ hours of CCNP ENCOR learning 🎓. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
DNS Attacks - Explained runs through the myriad of options available for jacking your network via DNS, from the dangly ones to the expiring ones and the tunneled ones 🛡️
Internet Resilience Is Broken (And Why It Matters More Than You Think) might make you think your dual-router Edge and dual-ISP PoP Internet routing design strategy 💡
F5 MCP Server brings the growing-in-popularity MCP protocol (it’s API, but for AI) to the F5 iControl ecosystem 🔄
One Script to Secure Your Sh!t, Two More to Tell You About It brings self-creating VPNs via Tailscale to your endpoint (could even be a use for that Raspberry Pi in the drawer…) 🚪
Using LLDP & STP for Network Discovery & Troubleshooting on Debian is especially handy when twinned with a Pi with a VPN Client for an instant zero-hands Field Engineer box 🥧
Why AI Workloads are so harsh on Network Infrastructure where bursty would be giving those poor ASICs, FIBs and NICs a well-deserved rest 🥱
A comprehensive guide for Linux Network (Socket) programming from SSL, HTTP, TCP, libcurl, ss, netstat and even more; get involved if you spend your days on a Linux Jumpbox 🐧
I switched my high-end Wi-Fi 7 router to a more affordable option - and don't regret it if you don’t want to roll high-end Enterprise gear in your home, this is a different approach 💰
Learning 🎓
OpenAI Academy
(Courses, Various Levels, 100+ hours)CCNP ENCOR Study Lab
(Lab, Intermediate, 50+ hours)Sneaking In Network Security
(Video, Expert, 1 hour)802.11 Meets Chaos: Understanding CCA and Energy Detection
(Video, Intermediate, 45 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
🇵🇱 Network Architect @ Akamai, Poland, Remote
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ GitHub, UK, Remote
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ The Guardian, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ Jane Street, UK, London
🇺🇸 AI HPC Network Development Engineer @ xAI, USA, TN
🇩🇪 Principal Network Automation Architect @ Inter.link, Germany, Remote
NotEng 🤔
How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths that are applicable over in the Infrastructure Engineering world as well; if you’re not using AI to accelerate your job, it’s guaranteed someone else is 💀
How I’ve run major projects is task management food for thought from someone deep in the trenches and a different way to the established Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other norms 🗓️
Lesser-Known Python Functions That Are Super Useful taught us a thing or
bisect(3)to speed up those NetDevOps scripts 🚤First operating system for quantum networks brings you QNodeOS, on top of the FAT32, NTFS, ExtFS, S3 and others you might need to format hard drives with in future 💽
Why is Ashburn the Data Center Capital of the World? and as a non-American the only reason to know it even exists as a place 🏡
What is MCP (Model Context Protocol) in AI? is a quick primer for the AI thing that’s going to absolutely take off in the Infrastructure world this year 🚀
My model of what is going on with LLMs if you’re struggling to keep pace with the AI race and want to not lose face 👍
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
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 🏭
Announcing the general availability of Amazon VPC Route Server is a BGP Route Reflector for your VPC Transit Network designs and is a massive help over other approaches ✊
Subsea internet cables can now ‘listen’ for sabotage using irregular pulses of light bring out of band to your inband, sorta like the CDP or LLDP of the ocean, are you there, neighbour-ino? 🥸
Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers nobody is safe, not even your MX or SRX core boxes
sho configuration | display set | match h4x0r💻Azure Front Door WebSocket is a new feature bringing the popular state-maintaining Web Protocol to the Azure CDN network 🔌
The internet's first .com was registered 40 years ago today - six years before the launch of the web and celebrates nearly half a century of existence 👵
Fast Flux: A National Security Threat involving people fluxing around with rapidly-changing DNS records to counter your NGFW security techniques 🏰
Arista load balances AI, gets Oracle onboard making RDMA run more ECMP on their EOS Switching and Routing platforms 🌉
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 💬.