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This week we’ve got full tunnelling 🪈 on Meraki MX; testing the WAN 🤖 with Flent; embedding JS in your SVGs 💬; Web 3.0 domain name registrars 👀; lessons learnt from Payments Startups 💳; no more Google cache: of the interwebs 🕷️; giving up on Projects that aren’t working 😷 and an essential book 📖 for you to master NetDevOps. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Meraki MX tunnel all traffic to VPN for those of you that need to stop the default split-tunnel behaviour in Cisco’s other SD-WAN product ⛔️
Flent: The FLExible Network Tester if you’re wanting a more capable version of iPerf that can deal with realistic ISP-like traffic scenarios 🚦
Aviatrix Network Segmentation walks you through a VRF-like routing domain separation in the Aviatrix Cloud Networking world without an RT or RD in sight 🚀
Istio Networking Part 1 is a great primer to the world of k8s Service Mesh, and how it simplifies things like Pod Networking, Linux Bridges and Docker Port mappery for you 🥷
JavaScript in SVGs because you two can create some great poor man’s observability tools with little more than an XML-like generator to create some SVGs (open one in Notepad, you’ll be pleasantly surprised) 😳
Edgeshark & Containerlab. A Web UI for the Wireshark (12 mins) is the packet sniffer you’ve been missing if you’re using any Container NOS or labbing solutions like containerlab 🧪
Hiring 💼
IP Network Automation, Network Design Specialist @ BT, Permie, UK, Birmingham
⭐️ Solutions Engineer @ OpsMill, Permie, €100k+, USA/UK/Europe (Remote) ⭐️
Senior Service Engineer (NaaS) @ NATO, Permie, €95k, Belgium, Braine l'Alleud
Senior Network Engineer @ ITV, Permie, £75k, UK, London
IT Infrastructure Engineer @ Lancashire County Council, Permie, £48k, UK, Preston
Staff Network Reliability Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, CA/NY/WA
Network Architect @ CityFibre, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
Senior Systems Engineer Smart Routing @ Cloudflare, Permie, USA (Remote)
Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, Portugal (Lisbon) or UK (London)
Network Engineer @ Pandora, Permie, Thailand, Bangkok
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TX/TN/WA
IPU Software Product Manager Cloud and Networking @ Intel, Permie, $140k+, USA, TX/OR/CA/MA
Senior Technical Support Engineer @ Aryaka, India, Bengaluru
Principal Solutions Architect - Project Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, Australia, Sydney
Lead Network Automation Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson, Permie, Belgium, Antwerp
Network Automation Solutions Developer @ Nokia, Permie, $43k, India, Bengaluru
Network Solutions Consultant @ Juniper, Permie, $102k+, USA (Remote)
Network and NetDevOps Engineer @ Airbus, Permie, France, Marseille
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
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) offers Web 3.0 domain name services, which we didn’t even know was a thing; we’ll stick to our
.onionthanks very much 🕸️Building your machine learning skills from zero because this AI bandwagon ain’t stopping anytime soon, if you can’t join them,
bleatbeat them 🐑Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead and our trick of using cache: as a Google Search filter to beat paywalls bites the dust 😵
When should you give up on a project that doesn't work? the 7 of you reading this are probably saying “Soon man, soon” 🔜
the thing no one will say about Apple Vision Pro (10 mins) is a scary insight into the future; we’re not sure who the hi viz is there to protect in this video 🦺
Lessons Learned From Payments Startups is applicable to many other industries, especially around Testing vs Doing approaches and Design Patterns ⭐️
Events 📅
AWS Summit, London, 24 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, Amsterdam, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
Amazon’s new AWS charge for using IPv4 is expected to rake in up to $1B per year - change should speed IPv6 adoption and get Bezos to the moon fasterererer 🚀
Chinese hackers infect Dutch military network with malware via Forti’s into their network perimeter 🔥
3 million smart toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack after all, but it could happen and we bet they’d still not run for the recommended 2 minutes each, twice a day because who has the time for that? 🪥
Introducing mTLS for Application Load Balancer where the “m” is for “mutual” rather than “multicast” - yip, it got us too 🤦♂️
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 💬.