This week we get a transport view of Starlink ๐ฐ๏ธ; the 38 โsimpleโ steps to an RFC ๐ช; bringing AI to Cisco Catalyst Center ๐ค; get real-time RoCEv2 visibility with sFlow ๐; the 6 mistakes youโll make as a new Manager 6๏ธโฃ; Networks of Competency are the new Org Chart ๐ผ; build a distributed log using just S3 โ๏ธ; learn about IP Transit over Cloud (IPTOC) โ๏ธ and use Dia as your new AI-powered super-Browser ๐ฆพ. Letโs dive in; โฌ๏ธ
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NetEng ๐ง
A transport protocolโs view of Starlink is what TCP and UDP would tell you they thought about Starlink if they could SYNโฆ SYNโฆ SYN-ACKโฆ ACKโฆ talk human ๐ถ
The โsimpleโ 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 ๐ต
Let's talk about standards - I got 802.xx problems, and the IEEE is only but one ๐ฆซ
Understanding RAG with Catalyst Center gives you a tutorial to use AI - or specifically Retrieval-Augmented Generation - within the popular Cisco NMS to start GPTโing your Network today ๐ค
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 ๐
Hiring ๐ผ
๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ USA and Canada
๐บ๐ธ Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
๐บ๐ธ Network Analyst II @ Honeywell, Permie, USA, MO
๐บ๐ธ Network Operations Engineer @ Okta, Permie, USA, Remote
๐จ๐ฆ Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
๐บ๐ธ Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, Remote
๐บ๐ธ Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
๐บ๐ธ Network Solutions Engineer @ Eli Lilly, Permie, USA, IN
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
๐บ๐ธ Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
๐บ๐ธ Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Network Operations and Development Engineer @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
๐บ๐ธ Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
โญ๏ธ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA โญ๏ธ
๐บ๐ธ Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
๐บ๐ธ Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
๐บ๐ธ IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
๐จ๐ฆ Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
๐บ๐ธ Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
๐บ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฌ Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
๐บ๐ธ Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+, USA
๐บ๐ธ Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
๐บ๐ธ Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
๐บ๐ธ Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ช UK and Ireland
๐ฌ๐ง Network and Security Architect @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Contract, UK, Manchester
๐ฌ๐ง Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
๐ฌ๐ง Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
๐ช๐บ Mainland Europe
๐ฌ๐ง Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
๐ฌ๐ง Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
๐ฉ๐ช Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
๐ณ๐ฑ Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
๐ช๐ธ Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
๐ฉ๐ช Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
๐ณ๐ฑ DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
๐ท๐ด Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
๐จ๐ฟ Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
๐ Rest of World
๐ฎ๐ณ Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
๐ฎ๐ณ Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
๐ต๐ญ Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
๐ฎ๐ณ Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
๐ธ๐ฌ Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
๐ฎ๐ณ Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
๐ฆ๐บ Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
๐ธ๐ฌ Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
๐ฎ๐ณ Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
๐ธ๐ฌ Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng ๐ค
The 6 Mistakes Youโre 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 โ๏ธ
How Networks Of Competence Are Crushing Hierarchies Of Authority is matrix management vs spans of control for the 2020โs, but actually worth reading if you want to better understand business organisational politics ๐ผ
Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go) brought a new concept to us - Zero Disk Architecture - where we thought โzeroโ could only apply to Zero Trustโฆ ๐ฟ
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 โcheapโ storage that can cause a Denial of Wallet attack ๐ธ
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
requests
and whether better options exist ๐ค
Events ๐
๐ค Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
๐ข 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 ๐ญ
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 โ๏ธ
Is Flexibility Scary, Dangerous, Or A Necessity For Infrastructure Automation Success? chimes in on the state of Platform and NetDevOps on Network Engineering today ๐
The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser which is going to bring AI Agents to the list of things youโll need to know, alongside HTTP, CDNs, DNS and the DOM ๐ฆพ
Hackers now use ZIP file concatenation to evade detection is a new spin on โjust add
.txt
to the end of the fileโ as an antivirus-evasion technique ๐ฆIntroducing Itentialโs New Automation Service: Transforming How NetDevOps Teams Standardize, Execute, & Share Automations which is more important than creating the Code itself, because nobody wants Schrรถdinger's Scriptโฆ ๐
Thatโs all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts youโd like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net ๐ฎ and weโll see if we can add them in ๐ฌ.