This week using PyATS to do a quick diff 🐍; how Network Engineering is changing in the era of AI 🤖; can we build a 5 GigaWatt Data Centre 🔌; J-Magic is hacking your Internet Juniper routers 😳; Azure VNETS just don’t really exist 🪄; what will a fully-automated Company look like 🤔; the DeepSeek FAQ 🎓; getting promoted during a re-org 🪜 and Cline for VSCode makes you a super-coder 💪. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
How to Perform a Diff within Cisco Genie PyATS is a quick but efficient tutorial to bring you up to speed with the benefits of using PyATS and Genie to Automate your Network ⏩
How network engineering is changing in the AI era is a short piece of what might happen next, what do you think? 🤔
Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center? and can AI help build buildings to build AI that builds Networks to host AI that interprets itself with AI that heals itself with AI… 🐢
Traffic Dictator is a PCEP (think MPLS, but newer - as in SR) controller that actually delivers on the original promise of OpenFlow and SDN all those years ago 🕹️
The J-Magic Show: Magic Packets And Where To Find Them is a deep dive on a horrible backdoor against Juniper routers; think WoL but over the WAN and against your wishes 😳
IPsec - The Networking Pain That Makes You Question Your Life Choices is still too raw for us after an MTU MSS-mismatch clamping foible too far on our Extranet VPNs 🗜️
Azure Virtual Networks Do Not Exist but in the fragments of your imagination where you badly want them to be a VRF; in the Cloud, the NIC is the router ☯️
Learning 🎓
DNSSEC overview
(Tutorial, 1 hr, Intermediate)VSCode + ClaudeDev + Continue - the local Cursor alternative
(Video, 12 mins, Beginner)Keynote: Networking for AI and HPC, and Ultra Ethernet
(Video, 1 hr, Intermediate)
Hiring 💼
We’re (still…) working 🛠️ on something cool here, stay tuned 📻…
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Network Architecture Intern @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Distributed Cloud Network Systems Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Principal Network Engineer @ Paylocity, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
🇺🇸 IT Network Lead - WAN @ Baxter, Permie, USA, IL
🇺🇸 Data Center Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ Intrepid Fiber Networks, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Aviatrix, Permie, USA, TX
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
🇬🇧 IP Network Designer @ BT, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ Community Fibre, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Cloud Network Specialist @ Accenture, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Edge Network Engineer @ ByteDance, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Verisk, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Systems Engineer - Juniper (Mist) @ Tesco, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Betway, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ DRW, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ CityFibre, Permie, UK, Milton Keynes
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇪🇸 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
🇩🇪 Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
🇳🇱 DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🌎 Rest of World
🇦🇪 Lead Platform Owner - Network @ Emirates NBD, Permie, UAE, Dubai
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
The End of Programming as We Know It… and I feel fine (maybe?), we’re at the start of something very new ☠️
What fully automated firms will look like in a world of the zero-employee Company, what is there left for human muggles to do? 🥸
How to write a good design document because writing stuff proper good never out of fashion goes, much ✍️
DeepSeek FAQ is everything commercial, technical and historical you wanted to know about the newest AI kid on the block, you’ll learn a lot 🎓
Why I use Cline for AI Engineering because if you aren’t using an AI Coding Assistant you’re falling behind (literally, or typing so fast your hand is on fire…) 🔥
How I was able to get promoted while constant reorganization is worth a read if you’re wanting to game the system and move up to Senior or Principle Engineer quickly 🪜
Is engineering strategy useful? might be something you ask yourself when you’re knee-deep in Network Design or Troubleshooting, but yes it is; maybe? 🤔
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 NetBCN March 2025, 3 March 2025, UOC 22@ Barcelona
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
HPE looks likely to lose its Juniper buy so no JuniHPer puns for you, and certainly no Mistuba Wireless 🛜
Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day so get FortiPatching those FortiGates already 🩹
Kentik 2025 Network Meme Calendar will shed some positivity into your cubicle if you’re being forced to RTO and come back in 🏢
AI Metrics for sFlow are finally here with InMon to monitor your CUDA-using, NVIDIA-toting AI/ML workloads 📈
Netkit to Network a Million Containers for ByteDance using eBPF as an alternative to Virtual Ethernet-based approaches (bye, bye VRF Routing Tables) 🌁
eSIM, telecom and the cliff is not 3G all over again, but it’s not far off from that if you thought eSIM would take over the world 🌍
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds IPv6 support and we’re not in the AWS ecosystem enough to know the difference between CloudWatch and CloudWatch Synthetics to know if this is good? ☁️
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 💬.