Please, AI, I want some more
Please, AI, I want some more
The future of NaaS; MPLS Carrier-in-Carrier; structuring your IaC runbooks; how schools can beat AI and more
We don’t have a fancy strapline this week, just a whole gruel (see what we did there, with the image and the Oliver Twist and the… nevermind 🙄) of acronyms and links for your pleasure. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng
Ansible for DevOps (eBook) is a great read to get into the world of Ansible, IaC, Orchestration and associated ecosystem around YAML, Docker and even Vagrant
Structuring your Infrastructure as Code provides a scaffolding to follow when crafting and splitting-out the code in your Terraform, Ansible or other IaC runbooks
The Future of NAAS (Networking as a Service) might help you to internalise where NaaS ends and SD-WAN, SDP, SASE, SSE et al begin
Global MPLS Design Using Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC) is a very detailed Technical Whitepaper from Nick Russo covering MPLS from an SP perspective (ProTip: MPLS != IP VPN, there’s a whole world of fun that isn’t even Ethernet 🙈)
NotEng
How to pass the interview for software engineering roles in Big Tech - Handbook does what it says on the tin, and is useful interview advice in general for Engineering roles
Career Advice Nobody Gave Me: Never Ignore a Recruiter addresses a big elephant in the room, and gives a templated response you can automate to any Recruiter messages (or “cold outreach” as the Marketing kids call it)
How Schools Can Survive (and Maybe Even Thrive) With A.I. This Fall offers an opinion on how the education system should change to adapt to AI, given that genie is well out of the bottle now
Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey is great insight from the Software Development world that translates into a defence as to why your objective based on closed Servicenow Ticket SLA might be more than a little outmoded
Industry
Heavy Networking 688: Packet-Level Fundamentals With Chris Greer enforces our belief that Networking Fundamentals trump any new buzzword bingo soup
IDC: Q2 Ethernet switch market up 38.4%, router market up 9.4% proves hardware networking (underlay, overlay, ole?) is a long way from being dead yet 🤠
Introducing dual-stack and IPv6-only support for Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints is useful if you’re doing hybrid dual-stack DNS in AWS VPCs
Free Certifications is a curated list of free Training Courses and Certifications from the Cloud Study Network in topics from Cloud to DevOps to even NetDevOps bits like Calico, Aviatrix and LoRaWAN
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs or tidbits 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 💬.