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Terraform IaC for beginners; understanding Crypto better for IPsec configs; BGP tag+block approaches; running an X509 PKI; hosting for free and jobs galore
This week we go through IaC Terraform for beginners 🔰; understanding cryptography better for your next IPsec config 🔒; a reason to not deploy a WAF Firewall 😮; Bill Gates’ opinion on where AI is heading next 🤖; advice for being a CTO at a Startup and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
In Partnership 🤝 with The DNS course for developers (and the rest of us…)
NetEng 🔧
Terraform For Beginners is such an informative read on getting started with TF and IaC that we’ve probably linked it twice already 🔥
Cryptography Guidelines is a great resource for when you’re mid-IPsec VPN config and wondering which DH Group Mod2048 is.. was it Group 2 or Eleventeen 😕 again?
BGP community-based peering policy - Part 1 - Principles covers the idea of Tag+Block using BGP Communities, especially useful for dual-homing scenarios to upstreams 🏊 or L3VPNs
Stop deploying web application firewalls, no, seriously - and Firewalls too, for that matter; just go full-SASE or SSE already 💪
Hiring 💼
Network Automation Designer @ Barclays, Permie, India, Pune
Senior Network Automation Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £70k+, UK, London (Remote)
Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, $158k+, USA, TX/CA/NJ (Remote)
NetDevOps Engineer @ UBS, Permie, UK, London
NetDevOps Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Contract, €475+ day, France, Lille
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Infrastructure and Systems Lead @ Telstra, Permie, 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 🤔
Running one's own root Certificate Authority in 2023 for those of you with too much free-time on your hands and an itch around X509 🎣 you’re dying to scratch
AI is about to completely change how you use computers says Mr Gates, but don’t forget that famous adage that “the future is not evenly distributed” when you’re still filling in a paper form for something or other in 2024 ✍️
10 hard-to-swallow truths they won't tell you about software engineer job which are largely not about your ability to l33t-c0d3 🐱💻 for days on end
How I Save $0 a Month Hosting Open Source Software in the Cloud proving we’ve now tipped over the “host it at home is cheaper” edge (especially with the cost of power 🔋 these days…)
The Startup CTO’s Handbook for those of you looking to move to Startupland in 2024 and beyond 🚀
Events 📅
🎄Crimbo, Your Place, 25 December 2023
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27-31 May 2024
Industry 🏭
Why Can’t Network Teams Have Nice Things? asks Kentik, but we all know it’s because the Network is always to blame, even when it’s not at fault 🤷
Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398 million rps is something we can’t even fathom, which was nice ☕
Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service and at this rate soon the “edge” will be eclipse the “core” we’ve been used to dealing with (farewell 👋, FastEthernet, we hardly knew ye)
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 💬.