This week we get a transport view of Starlink 🛰️; the 38 “simple” steps to an RFC 🪜; bringing AI to Cisco Catalyst Center 🤖; get real-time RoCEv2 visibility with sFlow 📈; the 6 mistakes you’ll make as a new Manager 6️⃣; Networks of Competency are the new Org Chart 💼; build a distributed log using just S3 ⚒️; learn about IP Transit over Cloud (IPTOC) ☁️ and use Dia as your new AI-powered super-Browser 🦾. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
A transport protocol’s view of Starlink is what TCP and UDP would tell you they thought about Starlink if they could SYN… SYN… SYN-ACK… ACK… talk human 🎶
The “simple” 38 step journey to getting an RFC can be yours too for the low-low price of just the majority of your hours and existence as a Network Engineer 👵
Let's talk about standards - I got 802.xx problems, and the IEEE is only but one 🦫
Understanding RAG with Catalyst Center gives you a tutorial to use AI - or specifically Retrieval-Augmented Generation - within the popular Cisco NMS to start GPT’ing your Network today 🤖
SC24 Real-time RoCEv2 traffic visibility applies sFlow (the other NetFlow) to an AI underlay network to see the real impact of this traffic on the Data Centre fabric 📈
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇺🇸 Network Analyst II @ Honeywell, Permie, USA, MO
🇺🇸 Network Operations Engineer @ Okta, Permie, USA, Remote
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
🇺🇸 Network Solutions Engineer @ Eli Lilly, Permie, USA, IN
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Operations and Development Engineer @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
⭐️ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA ⭐️
🇺🇸 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
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Contract, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
🇬🇧 Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇩🇪 Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
🇳🇱 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
🇷🇴 Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
🇨🇿 Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager especially if the New Year is seeing you go from an Individual Contributor (IC) role to a more managerial one ☝️
How Networks Of Competence Are Crushing Hierarchies Of Authority is matrix management vs spans of control for the 2020’s, but actually worth reading if you want to better understand business organisational politics 💼
Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) brought a new concept to us - Zero Disk Architecture - where we thought “zero” could only apply to Zero Trust… 💿
Comparing AWS S3 with Cloudflare R2: Price, Performance and User Experience is worth a read if you want to work around the cost implications of S3 for “cheap” storage that can cause a Denial of Wallet attack 💸
5 Overrated Python Libraries (And What You Should Use Instead) is opinionated, but might make you question (or even consider you can question) common choices like Python
requestsand whether better options exist 🤔
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Conf42 DevOps 2025, Virtual, 23 January 2025
(TX)NUG Dallas Winter Event 2024, Dallas, 25 January 2024
Conf42 DevOps 2024, Virtual, 25 January 2024
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
Industry 🏭
Astrotel IP Transit Over Cloud (IPTOC) is IP Transit Jim, but not as we used to know it; the IXP comes of age as the CXP in 2025 ☁️
Is Flexibility Scary, Dangerous, Or A Necessity For Infrastructure Automation Success? chimes in on the state of Platform and NetDevOps on Network Engineering today 🔔
The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser which is going to bring AI Agents to the list of things you’ll need to know, alongside HTTP, CDNs, DNS and the DOM 🦾
Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection is a new spin on “just add
.txtto the end of the file” as an antivirus-evasion technique 🦠Introducing Itential’s New Automation Service: Transforming How NetDevOps Teams Standardize, Execute, & Share Automations which is more important than creating the Code itself, because nobody wants Schrödinger's Script… 🐈
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 💬.