This week a JNCIE Study Group needs your help 🦸; AI Workloads give ECMP problems 🧨; NetOps needs more Dev from it’s Engineers 🧑💻; Factory Method Design Pattern for Network Automation 🏭; over 48 hours of NetEng Learning content 🎓; run Deepseek-R1 on your own hardware 🐳; jailbreak AI with your cApSlOcK key 🔠 and mitigate a 5.6 Tbps DDoS 😳. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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JNCIE-DC Lab Group – Looking for interested folks :) to join their study group and go forward with shared accountability, check it out today if you’re in the Juniper world 📚
AI Infrastructure can give ECMP a run-for-money in this reminder that Networks for AI Workloads are kinda the same, but also kinda very different 🤙
The NSO Example Collection has a tonne of beginner-to-expert examples, code scraps, diagrams, write-ups and more relating to the Cisco NSO network automation platform 👔
Modern NetOps Needs More from Network Engineers it needs more of you to put the “Dev” in NetDevOps and build those bridges between the world of Coding and Automation & Networks and Infrastructure 💪
The Factory Method Design Pattern: A Guide for Network Automation Engineers is solid gold for an aspiring Network Automation aficionado (easy for you to say) with worked examples as to why Pythonic self-class methods make sense in a reproducible factory context 🏭
A Decentralized SDN Architecture for the WAN is worth consideration if you’re thinking of changing your MPLS core for Local DIA (Internet) breakouts in your Enterprise Networks 🌐
Linux Routing Fundamentals is worth a read if you didn’t realise how capable stock Linux is of stuff like VRF, Bridging, NAT, Route Tables and even more 🤯
Learning 🎓
AI Solutions on Cisco Infrastructure Essentials | DCAIE
(Course, 33 hrs, Beginner)AWS re:Invent 2024 - Design well-architected networks on AWS NET202
(Video, 1 hr, Intermediate)Learning TCP? You HAVE to master this
(Video, 10 min, Intermediate)NET201-INT The power of cloud network innovation
(Video, 1 hr, Intermediate)Infrastructure & Operations Fundamentals Course and Certification
(Course, 7 hrs, Beginner)
Hiring 💼
We’re working 🛠️ on something cool here, stay tuned 📻…
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
🇺🇸 IT Network Lead - WAN @ Baxter, Permie, USA, IL
🇺🇸 Data Center Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ Intrepid Fiber Networks, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Aviatrix, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Junior Network Engineer @ Jacobs, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Crusoe, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
🇨🇦 Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
🇺🇸 Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+, USA
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Betway, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ DRW, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ CityFibre, Permie, UK, Milton Keynes
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ Macquarie, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Graduate Network Engineer @ Opticore, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Nationwide, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Barclays, Permie, UK, Knutsford/Glasgow
🇬🇧 Staff Network Engineer @ ripple, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 WAN Network Architect @ Fujitsu, Permie, UK, Birmingham
🇮🇪 Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 OT Principal Network Engineer @ National Grid, Permie, UK, Warwick
🇬🇧 Senior Network Architect @ TfL, Permie, £65k+, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, Remote
🇬🇧 Network Solutions Design Specialist @ BT Group, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Design Engineer @ ION, Permie, UK, Woking
🇬🇧 Network and Security Engineer @ Bupa, Permie, UK, London/Manchester/Brighton
🇬🇧 Staff Network Engineer - Cloud Platform @ Wise, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇮🇪 Network Operations Manager @ Crusoe, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 Principal Engineer, Zero Trust Network @ GSK, Permie, UK, Stevenage
🇬🇧 Transportation Network Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇪🇸 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
🇩🇪 Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
🇳🇱 DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🌎 Rest of World
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
Tiny Linux kernel tweak could cut datacenter power use by 30%, boffins say with just 30 lines of code curbing that PUE in the right direction for your green credentials 🌱
Complete hardware + software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally if you’ve been reading about the DeepSeek AI storm and want in on the fun without sharing your data, this is for you 🐳
Discovery Coding is the name for the thing you’re doing with your Python Flask, Django and other web apps, but never realised it had a name 🪪
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center from the entire ground up runs through how Railway built an entire DC, IXP and more from nothing in a few short months 🎸
Big Ideas in Tech 2025 is the infamous a16z’s take on what’s going to be hot for the year ahead, and if you seek really deep AI reckon you’ll find… 🤖
A standards first web framework articulates something we’ve thought about Frontend Web Development for a long. while, and proposes a novel fix 🧑💻
APpaREnTLy THiS iS hoW yoU JaIlBreAk AI but sure it can’t be this easy, right, RIGHT? 🥣
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 NetBCN March 2025, 3 March 2025, UOC 22@ Barcelona
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
CfgMgmtCamp 2025, Ghent, 3 - 5 February 2025
NANOG 93, Atlanta, 3 - 5 February 2025
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4 from the awesome folks at Cloudlare about the trends in Internet Edge they’ve seen and yet another massive attack they’ve mitigated 🥷
First demonstration of quantum teleportation over busy Internet cables is making quantum real for the first time in the Telco space ☎️
A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says, and aside from sounding like a tasty bagel you can get in parts of downtown, it wasn’t even via the Huawei kit everyone panicked over 🥸
Joe Biden signs executive order to speed AI data center construction so we’re gonna need more power Captain, she canne take it in Ashburn 🔌
NTT DATA’s Global GenAI Report distils what feels like a decade’s progress from the last year or so into a easy-to-understand infographic 🗾
Europe’s Starlink competitor is go and it even has a James Bondesque brand name to boot 👁️
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