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System Design 101; sorting AWS RBAC for thousands of Clients; ShellCheck your Bash scripts; the Olden Internet of T1 yore and a bleak abstracted future awaits
This week we peer under the hood of System Design 101 🎓; use a German 🇩🇪 Dynamic DNS provider for free; remember times before we had iPhones 🗿; become glue to help 🆘 our colleagues and have a surprisingly high number of NetDevOps jobs 🚩. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
In Partnership 🤝 with The DNS course for developers (and the rest of us…)
NetEng 🔧
System Design 101 takes you through a journey of an entire System, from REST API, through SOAP, API Gateways, Forward and Reverse Proxies to HTTP 🔥
Overhauling AWS account access with Terraform, Granted, and GitOps breaks down how the Duckbill Group access thousands of Client AWS Accounts to do their Consulting using an in-house 🔒 RBAC system
ShellCheck is a nifty online Bash Shell 🐢 script checker to get the errors out of your Linux scripts before you
destroydeploy them to your Production NMS boxDynDNS DDNS is a (German, use Google Translate) free dynamic DNS hosting provider that gives you free forward and 📟 reverse DNS subdomain hostnames in short domains such as
ddnss.deAncient Internet reminisces in a time before Metro Ethernet, when last-mile was a co-opetition between ISDN, ATM, T1 (E1 for our Euro friends), BRI, Frame Relay and even HDSL (y’know, the one before SHDSL ⚡)
Hiring 💼
⭐ Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote) ⭐
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
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 🤔
Being Glue ponders on the identity crisis 😱 you may face as you climb the ranks of an organisation and suddenly find your own role morphing into altruistically supporting everyone else instead
Free for Developers is a curated list of 🆓 useful tools, frameworks, GitHub Repos and more on everything from Cloud to ML, API, PKI, Logging, Monitoring and more
We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak especially if you have to troubleshoot some of those layers for cash monies 💵
The Mobile Revolution vs. The AI Revolution contrasts today’s AI innovation with the Smart Phone innovation of the mid 2000’s, where nobody thought ordering food 🍕 on your mobile would end up being a thing
Events 📅
✨ New Year’s Eve, Your Place, 31 December 2023
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27-31 May 2024
Industry 🏭
Cloudflare Dashboard and Cloudflare API service issues from November get a lovely, honest, write-up of the RCA that caused them
Boeing says 'cyber incident' hit parts business after ransom threat, because in space 🧑🚀, nobody can hear you pay the ransom (so don’t)
Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal: The enterprise needs guardrails to ship code quickly, although from our experience “quick” and “Enterprise” don’t tend to mix 🥊
OpenAI Says ChatGPT Outages Likely Caused By DDoS Attacks; time to ask AI how to stop AI from AI’ing itself with some AI already 🤖
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 💬.