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This week we’ve got a ERB bridging 🌉 with EVPN; using Net Schema to validate your IaC inputs ✅; generating PAC files the easy way 🙅; learning about CDP’s more-capable cousin LLDP 💡; getting the skinny on HTTP2 and HTTP3 🕸️; falsehoods you don’t know about Timezones ⏳; improving documentation practices in Engineering Teams 🔖 and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
EVPN-VXLAN Data Centers: ERB Deployment expands on EVPN topologies by using Edge-Routed Bridging to move Layer 3 Routing further back towards the Edge ➽
Net Schema is a library that validates JSON and YAML documents against a defined schema which can save time with some of you NetDevOps runbook validation attempts with pure RegEx 🕣
PAC File Generator will help you craft a pesky PAC or WPAD script without needing to go into the weeds of the esoteric JavaScript that is available within browser proxy auto-configuration files 😱
What is Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) dives deep into CDP’s open-source twin and might make us have to learn a command other than
show cdp e * p 💻HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 explained for those of us who weren’t exactly QUIC on the uptake of the last time HTTP changed itself 🥶
Hiring 💼
Network Automation Senior Developer @ Accenture, Permie, USA, TN
Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
Senior Network Engineer @ OzarksGo, Permie, USA, AR
⭐️ Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA ⭐️
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
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 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
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 🤔
S3 is files, but not a filesystem helps make sense of differences in File, Block and Object storage, and approaches to each 🗄️
Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones misses one key tip - always log your syslogs in UTC, you’ll thank us +/-1 hours later/earlier for this ⌚️
How to Improve Documentation Practices in Engineering Teams and nearly none of it is about the tools or systems it’s done in, rather keeping the culture around it dynamic 👀
The Future of Network Engineering in the AI/ML era opines you should keep learning and labbing, and we couldn’t agree more 🥼
Improving Video Encoding System Efficiency @ Netflix dives deep into designing algorithms for video compression codecs and how these work in practice 🧮
Events 📅
Networkshop 2024, Nottingham, 18 - 19 June 2024
NetUK 1, London, 8 - 9 July 2024
Networking Field Day 35, Silicon Valley, 10 - 11 July 2024
SANS Network Security 2024, Las Vegas, 4 - 9 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
Industry 🏭
Introducing Infrahub - a New Infrastructure Source of Truth with Version Control is really worth a look if you’re spending lots of time wrangling NSoT such as NetBox 🦦
netlab 1.8.0: Control-Plane Daemons, BIRD, dnsmasq brings more features into the already awesome netlab Virtual Networking Labbing Tool 🪚
Path Quality Part 1: The Surprising Impact of 1% Packet Loss effectively explains why weighted-taildrop and related QoS algorithms actually are things, and actually sometimes make a difference 💪
NVIDIA Blackwell Platform Arrives to Power a New Era of Computing coming soon to AI-enabled Network fabrics near you 🧣
How to optimize DNS for dual-stack networks as the days of “just disable IPv6 to make it work” are firmly over ⚒️
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 💬.