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This week we’ve got a BLT you can’t eat (with added BGP lettuce 🥬); subnetting in IPv6 🔪; automating NetBox with Ansible 🔖; installing Debian on a Mellanox Switch ⚒️; eng crits for Engineering Review at Figma 🧑💻; what AI means for non-time-travelling white collar 👔 workers; wrangling multiline YAML 📿 and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
BLT The BGP Linkstate Topographer visualises and graphs your BGP Peers on a geographic map, useful for WAN monitoring 🔥
IPv6 Deployment Series Part 1: Hierarchical Subnetting Design walks you through how to subnet in IPv6, considerations for p2p linknets versus host networks and more 6️⃣
Automating NetBox with Ansible has the infamous Suresh Vina guide you through some Ansible playbooks to import nodes and topologies into NetBox - who now have a free hosted offering you can play with at NetBox Labs Free Plan 🤩
Python and Ansible to Automate a Network Security Workflow guides you through using the Capirca library to automate ACL generation on a Router using an Application Dictionary approach 🤙
Debian on Mellanox SN2700 (32x100G) installs the best Linux distro ever (don’t mail in, you know we’re right) on Mellanox Switch hardware and gives you the full rundown, GRUB bootloader and all 🔨
Hiring 💼
Senior Network Developer (Python/Terraform) @ Oracle, Permie, Phillippines, Makati
⭐️ Network Engineer - Core Platforms @ Booking.com, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam ⭐️
Solution Architect - Network Technology Tools @ National Grid, Permie, $125k+, USA, MA/NY
Network Test Engineer Lead @ Cisco, Permie, $180k+, USA, CA
Network Developer 2 @ Oracle, Permie, $180k+, USA, TX/VA
Network Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA, IL/TX/PA
Cloud Optical Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, WA
Senior Network Engineer - Monitoring & Automation @ CoStar Group, Permie, USA, CA
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ AstraZeneca, Permie, Mexico, Guadalajara
Data Center IT Support Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, New Zealand, Auckland
Production Services Engineer, Infrastructure Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
NetDevOps Senior Lead SRE @ JP Morgan Chase, Permie, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Network SRE @ XTX Markets, Permie, £150k+, UK, London
Associate Net DevOps Engineer @ Aryaka Networks, Permie, India, Bengaluru
NetDevOps Technical Solutions Engineer @ Arista, Permie, India, Pune
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps @ Kunai, Permie, USA, TX/VA
Principal Infrastructure Engineer @ Anaplan, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, $190k+, USA, ID
Staff Network Reliability Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, CA/NY/WA
Senior Systems Engineer Smart Routing @ Cloudflare, Permie, USA (Remote)
Network Solutions Consultant @ Juniper, Permie, $102k+, USA (Remote)
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Puter is an advanced, open-source internet operating system, apparently - and looks very promising, but reminds us too much of Packard Bell Navigator from the 90s 😱
Multiline Expressions in Ansible Playbooks wrangles the pain of newlines, heredoc and block chomping when your line spills over in YAML 🫗
Google's sad ideological capture was exactly what we were trying to avoid has Mr DHH opine on Google’s Gemini AI, and where Big G is heading next 🔎
How we engineer feedback at Figma with eng crits dissects the engineering review and governance processes at the Frontend mock-uperererer-er shop, with worked examples and steps you can follow to try 💅
How 'The Time Machine' explains the future of knowledge work means we’ll probably have to make a new collar colour other than white and blue (“purple collar worker” anyone?) 👕
Events 📅
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Networkshop 2024, Nottingham, 18 - 19 June 2024
NetUK 1, London, 8 - 9 July 2024
SANS Network Security 2024, Las Vegas, 4 - 9 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
Industry 🏭
Google Patches Linux kernel with 40% TCP performance (12 mins) in Linux 6.8 by rearranging the TCP packet dataframe for better CPU caching 👀
Announcing OCI FastConnect 400G direct connections for your on-prem to OCI Cloud needs, which is astonishingly fast if you happen to already be at a Colo Oracle are in ⏩
Former telecom manager admits to doing SIM swaps for $1,000 is a reminder that SMS-based 2FA isn’t always as secure as you might think 🤔
IBM boosts network and IT automation with Pliant acquisition which as well as their recent HashiCorp acquisition, makes us think they’re trying to buy their way into this modern DevOps “thing” 💰
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 💬.