Seems we’re becoming more monthly than weekly; is that working for you guys - tell us about it. Highlights this issue:
NetFlow Config Generator; MTU Path Test; Internet Cable choppy McChopChop; PON to your doorstep; self-hosting Email the hard way and boundaries beat burnout.
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NetEng 🌐
NetFlow Config Generation Tool for Security Analytics is what is says, does what it says, and actually exports the flow type and records it says it will 🔥
Who Is Cutting The World’s Internet Cables? and could they just stop it for a month or two before we concede defeat and go frikkin space lasers everywhere instead 🧑🚀
MTU Path Test - Find Where a Path Silently Fragments, Hop by Hop has proven itself useful for us; it’s traceroute but with frag detection ⚙️
Awesome Network Automation AI is a comprehensive repository of all things AI, ML and LLM in the world of Network Automation - tools, talks, resources, articles and more 👩🏫
How Passive Optical Networks (PON) Work explains how FTTP gets from the OLT mux to the router in your lounge 🛋️
Twelve Years Without a VPN is coming to you at a legacy Enterprise company to roll out their first Proof of Concept in… probably another 12 years yet 🤦
Peering Capacity at Public Internet Exchanges: What the Data Reveals and where it’s different from your who-pays-who expectations 🪈
DevEng 🔧
I’ve Seen this Movie Before. It Was Called Visual Basic has some parallels to call against AI vibe coding and the Visual Basic wave that “killed off” C++ (which is still going) 🍿
Azure SRE Agent for Networking isn’t just for finding problems in Azure VNETs themselves, it can also help with your on-prem issues too; worth a look ☁️
Vibe Coding Is Creating a New Trap for Developers and it smells like progress, looks like progress but doesn’t actually help you with the goal or customer acquisition any - viber, beware 😎
Cloudflare AI Playground lets you side-by-side the outputs of differing LLM models and see the difference in real time 🤖
Quick Take: New Book “AI Agents for Network Operations” reviews a very popular book doing the rounds, it’s worth your time to check if it works for you now 📚
AI-Assisted Network Engineering Is Not Network Automation it’s useful, but very different and not that good for plain config generation ⚡️
Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up isn’t an exercise for the poor of time (or those wanting high email delivery rates), but nothing else will teach you the Internet proper 🤝
NextEng 🎓
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NotEng 🤔
Boundaries Beat Burnout is on the money; but as with everything, easy to say, difficult to actually do (or not, as this case may be…) ⛔️
Why the software that used to cost €550k now costs €250k and which software didn’t get cheaper at all questions what SaaS, Networks and the IT industry in general might look like when the code is no longer the part that takes time 🤔
Congratulations, You have all now been promoted to Managers! but without the pay bump, any humans to manage, or the training on how to lead them 🎩
I gave GPT my 20 year old disk decryption challenge. It won proves AI can finally be useful for unlocking stuff you thought you forgot the crypto key for many years before; now where did we leave that Bitcoin hard drive again? 🔐
You Can’t Buy Culture no matter how hard you try 🚴
Government defends plan to switch off terrestrial TV and it’s not just about that sweet, sweet UHF and VHF radio spectrum, honest… 💸
A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI puts it’s finger on something we’ve thought for a while; let’s finally kill MS Word as the de facto information storage mechanism already ☠️
SocialEng 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
NLNAM, Utrecht, 9 September 2026
CPH Network Meetup, Copenhagen, 2 October 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026
NLNOG Day 2026, Hilversum, 4 September 2026
Connected Britain, London, 9 - 10 September 2026
BCIX Roundtable Summer, Berlin, 10 September 2026
European Peering Forum 2026, Paris, 14 September 2026
INEX 30th Anniversary, Dublin, 17 September 2026
BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026
HUNOG 4, Hungary, 30 September - 1 October 2026
Netnod Tech Meeting 2026, Stockholm, 6 October 2026
NetBox Evolve, Florida, 13 October 2026
NANOG 98, Miami, 19 - 21 October 2026
ARIN 58, Miami, 22 - 23 October 2026
RIPE 93, Sofia, 26 - 30 October 2026
AI Networking Summit, New York, 28 - 29 October 2026
OARC 47, Vancouver, 9 - 10 November 2026
Salotto 2026, Milan, 11 - 12 November 2026
Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026
IETF 127, San Francisco, 14 - 20 November 2026
DENOG18, Essen, 15 - 17 November 2026
AutoCon 6, Tucson, 16 - 20 November 2026
Luxembourg Internet Days, Luxembourg, 17 - 18 November 2026
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 💬.