This week it’s the last week to win a free O’Reilly Arista Warrior book 📖; become a master of BGP 🥷; juice a Pi 5 to 2 Gbps on Wi-Fi 7 🏎️; H100 AI Data Centre cabling guide 📚; deep water problems without Internet Cable fixers 🤖; Kiro is the AI IDE to replace VScode ⛑️; Vibe Coding is rewriting how we do Technology 📝; NLX is the new User Experience 👍 and beware tech career advice from old timers 👴. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Mastering BGP delves into all things BGP, and goes much deeper than you might have superficially “BGP neighbor’d” in the past, well worth a read for those of you regularly doing
router bgpstuffs 🤝Exploring WiFi 7 (at 2 Gbps) on a Raspberry Pi 5 goes in detail how to use a Intel AX210 card and a Raspberry Pi to achieve 2 Gbps of throughput via Wi-Fi 7; a far cry from the paltry ~100 Mbps we get with the onboard Pi 4 chipset 🚤
MCP for Netbox quickly goes through the use and install of a Model Context Protocol API server to interact with your NSoT and get IPAM, DCIM and more at the prompt of a command 💬
H100 Cabling Guide is a 33-page PDF that takes you through everything you’d need to consider for cabling an AI Fabric in a data centre, including rack schematics, breakout boxes, end-to-end Cable Patching Schedules and media types 🫅
We’re in deep water without more cable surgeons discusses the problem of an aging population of greybeards in boats, but not the Cruise ship kind, more the “fixing your Internet cable” kind 🧙
Running Juniper cPCE on an Ubuntu VM to go deep on PCEP and BGP-LS with some container-based Routers running in a local lab on your laptop 💻
Aruba CX lab with Containerlab and GitHub Codespaces essentially turns your VSCode or other IDE into a fully-featured Lab Environment that beats the experience you’ll have had with EVE-NG 🔬
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
Sniffnet is a network monitoring tool to help you keep track of Internet traffic
(Tool, Network, NetFlow)Going beyond show commands and screen scraping with BMP
(Video, 10 mins, Intermediate)Kiro is the AI IDE for prototype to production
(Tool, IDE, Vibe Coding)Cisco Workflows Self-Learning Samples Videos
(Video Playlist, ~3 hours, Low-Code)AI Agents, Clearly Explained
(Video, 10 mins, Beginner)HN769: CI/CD Pipelines and Network Automation
(Podcast, 1 hour, NetDevOps)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
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🇬🇧🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings
🇺🇸 Senior Staff Core Network Engineer SRE @ Google, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Avionics Network Integration Engineer @ Blue Origin, USA, WA
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Cloudflare, UK, London
🇮🇳 Content Engineer @ Cisco, India, Bangalore
🇩🇪 Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) @ Arista, Germany, Remote
🇬🇧 Principal Private 5G Network Consultant @ Verizon, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Product Engineer @ Cloud Gateway, UK, London
🇮🇪 Network Deployment Engineer @ Meta, Ireland, Dublin
NotEng 🤔
Hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocket: Cloudflare’s 2025 Q2 DDoS threat report has some interesting insights into the growing world of Malware as a Service, explosion in IoT and other factors making DDoS attacks so big they’ll one day DoS themselves? 🚛
The CQS (Command Query Separation) Design Principle discusses the idea of separating business logic from your code logic in a different, modular, reusable way 🎓
The MCP Authorization Spec Is... a Mess for Enterprise and looks a lot like SAML and SSO used to before it got easier (did it?) for Enterprise apps 🗄️
Vibe coding is rewriting the rules of technology and making the feedback loop between idea, requirements-gathering and prototyping much faster; Business Analysts might want to drop those spreadsheets now… 🎼
NLX (Natural Language Experience) is the new UX distills the infamous Chatbot interface experience into what this means for Enterprise and non-Consumer applications 📢
A love letter to the CSV format is written in Markdown, because CSV ain’t for prose - but it turns out it is for everything else… #️⃣
Beware tech career advice from old heads as we’ve lived in a different time to now, where the concept of a “career” was very much still a thing; history may have lessons to teach us, but just like they say in investing - “past performance is not indicative of future results” 💼
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, 16 - 17 August 2025
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025
FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025
Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025
Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025
RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025
ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025
DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025
AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025
Industry 🏭
Broadcom tries to kill InfiniBand and NVSwitch with one Ethernet stone, but there’s a fable about houses made of glass, stones and children we can’t remember that springs to mind 🏚️
With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet? and please could they stop with all this <xyz>Link stuff, we didn’t like the difference in PAgP vs LACP the first time around… 🤮
Zonal affinity for internal passthrough Network Load Balancers is a fairly new feature for GCP, but might give you thoughts on how to achieve the same with other Cloud providers or in your on-prem DCs 🪄
Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records because Corey Quinn was right, DNS really is just an esoteric database with a few different options, wonder if you can filter-out the Record Types on your Edge devices… 🧐
Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 incident on July 14, 2025 unless you were living under a 8.8.8.8 rock, you might have noticed your DNS went wonky on this date, here’s why 🕵️♂️
Noction Tier 1 Carriers Performance Report – June, 2025 for those of you who spend time studying KMZs and Carrier Routes in the soil as well as Carrier Routes in the Routing Table 📚
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Transit Gateway native integration as TGW grows in popularity as the de facto “hub glue” in the AWS cloud ☁️
Chinese hackers spent four years inside Asian telco’s networks and probably still couldn’t work out where that pesky PWE3 with PWHE went or for which Customer again… 🎮
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 💬.