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With a protocol stack from the 70s, it's a miracle it arrived at all
This week we learn Email from first principles 🎓; tunnel out of places with portr 🍄🟫; can’t use PAN-OS with IPv6 😭; take 20 mins to learn AI inside out 🤖; learn how to take the Path to Senior Engineer with a handbook 📕; hark back to the golden GeoCities age of the Internet 🐰 and see jobs galore 💼. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
EVPN-VXLAN Data Centers: Architecture compares approaches like Central Route Bridging, Bridged Overlay, Edge Route and other VXLAN architectures 🏠
portr Open source ngrok alternative designed for teams - Tunnel http, tcp or websocket connections and get your way out of proxied and walled garden networks back to where you want the packets to go 🍄🟫
SR/MPLS Security Framework contrasts Segment Routing and MPLS approaches and provides links to learn more on both topics 🎬
Configure DHCP in VxLAN EVPN Fabric gives a real-world scenario of concepts like the DHCP Helper (Relay) in the context of the stretch L2 that VXLAN provides 👓
Palo’s Mgmt-Intf is not usable with IPv6 anymore and this work-through dives into why that is, and what to do next if you’ve got PAN-OS in a pure IPv6 deployment 🧤
Hiring 💼
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Hedge Fund via Saragossa, Permie, £140k+, UK, London
IT Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA
Senior Consultant Network Automation @ Network to Code, Permie, Europe (Remote)
Senior Network Engineer @ Warner Bros Discovery, Permie, UK, London
⭐️ Network Software Engineer @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh ⭐️
Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) @ Arista, Permie, Germany
Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote
⭐️ Network DevOps Engineer @ Ocado Technology, Permie, UK, Hatfield ⭐️
Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Research Manager Network Programmability @ BT Group, UK, Bristol
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Product Support Engineer Tier 3 @ Cato Networks, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
Network Reliability Manager @ CME Group, Permie, UK, London
NetDevOps Observability Engineer @ Citi, Permie, USA, TX
Net DevOps Engineer @ DriveWealth, Permie, $160k+, USA, Remote
Director, Network Solutions, Design & Engineering @ LSEG, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer II @ Booking.com, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+,USA
Solutions Architect - Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, Singapore
Network DevOps Engineer @ SAP, Permie, Hungary, Budapest
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps @ Kunai, Permie, USA, TX/VA
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Email explained from first principles deconstructs this decades-old collection of protocols such as SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 including nuances around SPF, DKIM, DMARC and more that you thought was simple text communication 🤔
Generative AI in a Nutshell - how to survive and thrive in the age of AI (18 mins) takes you through all aspects of AI, from LLM, through Transformers, ML and underlying maths and will leave you much more understanding of what the GPT craze is all about 🎓
The beginning of the end for Terraform? and not just because it’s got a new cheesy name or an “Open” fork 🍴
Path to Senior Engineer Handbook is stuffed full of advice to get you up to a Senior Engineer - from websites, papers, courses, videos, podcasts, communities, platforms and more 💪
We can have a different web that harks back to the golden age of GeoCities instead of the current age of advertisement pop-up rubb-ai-sh 🐰
Events 📅
NetApp Insight, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2024
Public Sector Cloud and AI Conference, Edinburgh, 24 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
NANOG 92, Toronto, 21 - 23 October 2024
ONUG AI Networking Summit, New York, 23 - 24 October 2024
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
Industry 🏭
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins and keeps tightening the grip on the direction of ESXi and it’s bigger virtualisation suite 🐴
IP Infusion Completes Certification for Ciena 400G ZR/ZR+ Optics for Converged IP/Optical White Box Solution making SFP go rocket boom now 🧨
Zscaler Extends Zero Trust SASE Leadership and Eliminates the Need for Firewall-Based Segmentation by acquiring Airgap Networks to become an even biggerer SASE giant 🦑
Announcing OpenZiti v1.0 is well worth a look if you’re in the market for a an open source SASE solution with great industry backing and community 💎
How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure With a 90% Discount is worth a read on how the SEO giant pays tiny Cloud bills 💵
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 💬.