Rat of the Information Superhighway
Stand(ards) and Deliver(y)!
This time use RootViz to spy on Root DNS Servers 👀; get virtual cage nut finger cuts on the Data Center virtual simulator 🎮; learn how AI Data moves on InfiniBand 🤖; amazing Wi-Fi Toolsets one-pager 🛜; Cisco Spaces Design Tool to improve your Office UX and CX 😍; enter Side Doors to get the job of your dreams 👩✈️; AI through IaC is the answer 🏏 and run Google Gemma 4 free, locally 🩼. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Build Intelligent Networks with AI – Cohort 2
👉 Saturday, June 20 at 4:30 AM - 7:30 AM GMT+1
This live online workshop is designed for network engineers and automation practitioners who want to move beyond AI experimentation and start building reliable, production-minded agentic workflows for network operations.
Learn about:
MCP
OpenClaw
NetClaw
Python
Claude
…and more
👉 3 hours, ~$215, William Collins and John Capobianco
NetEng 🔧
RootViz: New Root DNS Reachability Dashboard lets you geek out about o11y of the handful of DNS Root Servers and what they are up to at the minute 🦷
A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm is a secret way to get around NAT and send data from two protected hosts 🔥
Data Center is a simulation game where you can torment yourself running cables, assembling racks and even watch your packets flow through the wires; just make sure you don’t get a virtual finger cut with the virtual cage bolts 🩹
The Internet Is Fragmenting. Most of the People Who Should Notice Aren’t Looking, but you’re not most people as you’re reading this; you can notice and do something about it 👋
Stop Designing Route Reflectors Like It’s 2005 (Part 2: The Fast-Twitch Muscle) brings you fast-forward to current best practices for BGP RRs to avoid full mesh architectures 🧠
How Data Moves on an InfiniBand Fabric - From the Application to the Wire, Compared to TCP/IP at the Transport Layer is absolutely fascinating if you’ve only ever come from the IP Ethernet Campus or Data Centre world before, learn how the AI packets move 📩
What Batfish Actually Does, and Why It Belongs in Your Stack gives practical information on how to use Batfish to prevent the need for before and after
showcommands on your big Change windows 🏏Wi-Fi Toolsets one-pager is exactly that across the world of Wi-Fi Design, Validation, Spectrum Analysis, Troubleshooting and even some Pro Analysis tools ⚒️
What AI training parallelism actually means for your network fabric is really, really, really interesting if you want to see how Networks for AI looks in practice 🤖
Book Club 📚
AI Networking Cookbook by Eric Chou
Full Stack Network Automation by Shahzad Qadir
DDoS: Understanding Real-Life Attacks and Mitigation Strategies by Stefan Behte
Network Engineer Toolkit - 22 Production Templates for ISP & Data Center Engineers
Training 🎓
🏦 Cisco U CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA (40 CE Credits) or CCNP (80 CE Credits) with these free Cisco U courses using Continuing Education (CE) credits:
Cisco AI Technical Practitioner (AITECH)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 15h 30m)Cisco AI Business Practitioner (AIBIZ)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 16h 30m)Understanding Cisco Network Automation Essentials (DEVNAE)
(Course, 16 CE Credits, 29h)Advanced Automation with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLAPI)
(Course, 8 CE Credits, 8h)Introduction to Network Simulations with Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLLAB)
(Course, 6 CE Credits, 8h 30m)Administering Cisco Modeling Labs (CMLADM)
(Course, 5 CE Credits, 4h 30m)
🪚 Tools
neteng.life - Network Engineer Simulator
(Parody, Simulator, lolnotanother2ampage)NetDevOps Micro-Tools
(Online Tools, Various, NetOps)Cisco Spaces Design Tool
(Cisco Spaces, Wireless, CX and UX)
🎓 Learning
Off with the Offset
(Video, 45 mins, Wireless)Networking for Modern AI:ML Infrastructure
(Video, 40 mins, Networks for AI)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings
🇦🇺 Specialist Network Engineer @ Vanguard, Australia, Melbourne
🇩🇪 Network Engineer @ firstcolo, Germany, Frankfurt am Main
🇮🇳 Network Engineer @ Amazon, India, Hyderabad
🇮🇪 Network Engineer @ IVC Evidensia, Ireland, Remote
🇳🇱 Network Engineer @ Booking.com, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇬🇧 Lead Network Engineer @ Barclays, UK, Edinburgh
🇺🇸 Staff Network Engineer @ Relativity Space, USA, Long Beach, CA
…and over 210 more jobs at the Reload in 10 Network Engineer Jobs Board
NotEng 🤔
Domain Knowledge Is the Leverage is worth remembering when the FUD about AI happens; anyone can learn the recipe to bake bread, but few can be bothered, and fewer can actually make a tasty loaf 🍞
How to enter side doors is a useful guide for getting a “job” in the current market, only you don’t necessarily need to fill in an ATS form or application to get one 🚪
LLM as CPU, agent as OS posits a different mental model for working with Agents and best leveraging Skills in Claude 💪
The Folder Is the Agent might be so simple it revolutionises the way you use Claude for Skills 🤖
AI Through IaC, Not Instead of It goes against the common trope that AI replaces the IaC layer intermediary (think Terraform, Ansible) and instead brings it back to reality 🤔
When Senior Leaders Sound Junior gives a case study of a Senior Leader going for a new job but being unable to articulate their own worth 🤔
The Messy Middle: Why the AI Hype Cycle Is Rhyming with Cloud & What Infrastructure Teams Should Do About It reminds you that what is happening now with AI is what was happening when Cloud was going to replace all the Data Centers and then… kinda actually didn’t at all ☁️
Software engineering calories: what would cal.ai say about your product? is a differing way of looking at feature bloat compared to human bloat, and we have to say, the analogy kinda holds 🥊
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
CPH Network Meetup, Copenhagen, 2 October 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
Cisco Live USA, Las Vegas, 31 May - 4 June 2026
AutoCon 5, Munich, 8 - 12 June 2026
NetUK 3, London, 6 - 7 July 2026
AusNOG 2026, Brisbane, 3 - 4 September 2026
BalticNOG 2026, Riga, 23 - 24 September 2026
AI Networking Summit, New York, 28 - 29 October, 2026
Cisco Live APJC, Melbourne, 9 - 12 November 2026
Industry 🏭
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview gives a sneak peak at actions and processes you might soon be doing to fight the onslaught of the AI nasties outside the castle walls 🏰
The AI Layoff Trap advocates for a tax to stop a bad side of where this could go 💰
Google Gemma 4 is an LLM that can be run as easily as
brew install llama.cppwith no Internet connection required after 🩼
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 💬.