RoCE I plus RoCE II is AI's revenge!
AI Bart best check his Roman Numerals
This time learn how RoCE delivers a lossless AI network 🦾; learn where the 9800 WLC differs from AireOS 🛜; count all the way to 13 with DNS root 🔄; APMonitor.py is your Layer 2-4 monitoring buddy 🕵️♂️; OnlyRANs is absolutely filthy Telco towers 🗼; you are probably behind with AI 🤖; complete guide to building and living with OpenClaw 🦀 and scaling AI doesn’t work in the way you think 🤔. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
How does RoCE actually deliver a Lossless network? is a fascinating entry into the world of AI Backend Networks, especially if you spend your life in the Enterprise Frontend and don’t see behind the PFC curtains 🤩
Cisco Catalyst 9800: Quick Start Configuration After Deployment is worth bookmarking if you’ve come from the AireOS Wireless LAN Controller world and need a hand with the object and policy mapping that IOS-XE WLCs use 📝
Series 2a: Cloud Network Engineering-Architecting an L1–L7 BGP Datapath with Cilium and eBPF goes very, very, very deep into the workd of Kubernetes Networking, the likes of CNI, eBPF, vEth, Docker and… oh my k8s! 🛼
Reimagining Network Operations: How Microsoft NetAI Tackles Hyperscale Challenges is targeted at Telco and Cloud, but has some learnings and tools that could apply at pretty much any Network or scale 🎓
Why there are exactly 13 DNS root servers and it’s not because 7 ate 9, so
digin for an expose into why the numbers 13, 512 and 1987 are so important to DNS 🧮Intent Over CLI: How an AI Built a Multi-Vendor CDN (and Exposed My Test Flaws) and lied to the implementer halfway through because it figured that was easier than doing genuine Network Engineering; make of that what you will 👷🏼♀️
Network Engineers: You’ve Been Doing Spec-Driven Development for Years, You Just Didn’t Know It puts a different Software Engineering spin on what you may have been subconciously doing for ages 🚦
OnlyRANs isn’t what you think it is, but it’s very, very dirty; you’ve been a naughty little cellular tower 👋
SONiC at the Edge: Cheaper Switches Don’t Mean a Cheaper Network - remember folks, Day 2 and OpEx are things, and sometimes it’s better to pay a predictable-but-large CapEx upfront to avoid some of their unknowns 💰
Gemma 4 is coming for local AI Network Automation where self-hosting the AI inferencing might make more sense than paying for tokens 🪙
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
APMonitor.py - Layer 2-4 Monitoring Tool
(o11y, GitHub, NOC)Skill Forge (SKF) - Turn code and docs into instructions for AI
(AI, LLM, Skills)(IP Info, Proxy-VPN Check, API)
🎓 Learning
Tech Layoffs: The real reason is not AI, it’s US
(Video, 20 mins, Career Advice)Neural Networks to GPU Fabrics - Networking for Modern AI:ML Infrastructure
(Video, 40 mins, AI Networks)Multi-Vendor Pure ZTP Lab
(Tutorial, 3 hours, Zero Touch Provisioning)
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
🇩🇪 Senior Telco Network Automation Architect @ NVIDIA, Germany, Remote
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Swiss Re, India, Bengaluru
🇮🇳 Principal Network Engineer @ London Stock Exchange Group, India, Bengaluru
🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Ireland, Dublin
🇳🇱 Network Engineer @ ABN AMRO, Netherlands, Amstelveen
🇬🇧 Network Design Engineer @ Intelix.ai, UK, London
🇬🇧 Principal Network Engineer @ Home Office, UK, London/Manchester
🇺🇸 Senior Solutions Engineer @ Netskope, USA, Colorado, CO
🇺🇸 Staff Network Engineer @ Uber, USA, Sunnyvale, CA
🇺🇸 Network Solution Lead @ Stripe, USA, Chicago, IL/Atlanta, GA/San Francisco, CA/Seattle, WA/New York, NY, USA
…and over 240 more jobs at the Reload in 10 Network Engineer Jobs Board
NotEng 🤔
Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass either means they’re living in a bubble, or the comfortable one the rest of us all inhabit is about to abruptly pop (or should that be AI-bruptly…) 🛁
We Run an AI Business and Our Own Daughter Won’t Touch It isn’t the generational divide you might anticipate it is; or at least, it feels the wrong-way around to us 🍼
You are probably behind and so are we (by several weeks it seems), but that’s ok; so is everyone else, perhaps… 🤔
Roadmaps - what are they good for; as it turns out, pretty much everything, especially if you want to bring people on the journey with you (no pun intend… ok, maybe a little bit…) 🚧
OpenClaw: The complete guide to building, training, and living with your personal AI agent goes through it in some detail, with practical examples and some non-Engineering Use Cases to get those claws snapping 🦀
The Productivity Is Real. The Scaling Isn’t is a slightly futuristic world to the one you may be living in, but not in the high-scale way you may be imagining 🤖
Engineering Managers are going to hate OpenClaw depending on whether they make product or maintain IT infrastructure as a product 🪖
How NASA Built Artemis II’s Fault-Tolerant Computer is tonic for Networking’s current “just put it in the Cloud” obsession from, ironically, something that is designed to plough through clouds 🚀
The Effects of AI-Generated Code Tearing Through Corporations Is Actually Kind of Funny especially if you’re in one or have seen the affects of Corporate bureaucracy first hand; it doesn’t do so good when it meets high-volume AI slop 🏂
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
NL Network Automation Meetup, Amsterdam, 13 May 2026
CPH Network Meetup, Copenhagen, 2 October 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
AI Networking Summit, Dallas, 13 - 14 May 2026
RIPE 92, Edinburgh, 18 - 22 May 2026
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 🏭
Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution is a biggy, and there’s a 3-line attack curl script out there somewhere, the future is pretty scary 👻
UK spy agency releases malware-blocking gadget for HDMI and DisplayPort cables - SilentGlass blocks malicious traffic traveling between display and computer and is definitely a more marketable device name than those we’d have come up with about giving your VGA cable a good old wipe after 😱
Ireland, striving to become Europe’s data center hub, falls victim to its own success is most likely the only reason half our readership know of the emerald isle; just so you know, it’s not all Dublin either 🍺
O2 launches campaign for satellite-to-mobile service; Houston, make text message go now 📡
A Sneaky Back Door Lets Hackers Into Your Home. Here’s How to Protect Yourself and stop from becoming the next reverse-proxy-in-disguise victim 🛡️
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 💬.