Screw down my diodes and call me Frank
Data Diodes - When Firewalls are letting too much back through
This week we explore Azure Networking fundamentals 💎; stop using NGFW appliances in the Cloud 🌧️; learn Jinja2 inside-out 📝; pay homage to the GOAT of Networking that is the 6500 🐐; analyse the impact of AI on work 🤖; explore the unknown DSV twin of the CSV file 🖐️ and reminisce about software quality before AI came along 📠. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Azure Networking Fundamentals: Internet Access with VM-Specific Public IP is a refresher on the key difference of “magic Internet access without a Default Route” that differs in Azure versus the other Public Clouds ⛅️
Stop using NGFW Appliances in Google Cloud they cost a lot and don’t scale or operate in the same cloud-native way 👎
Jinja2 Tutorial - Part 1 - Introduction And Variable Substitution is part one of a six-part series covering everything you’d want to know about the ubiquitous templating language 📝
Nornir Inventory Deep Dive and Filtering (III) is the third part in a multi-part series covering all things Nornir to get up and running with your Network Programming quickly 🏃
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Just Ran and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran (it didn’t fan-tray, and fan-tray, and fan-tray though - we’ve got the scars from trying to fix those…) 🪭
Hiring 💼
Corporate Network Engineer @ Stripe, Permie, USA, Remote
Network Architect @ Capgemini, Permie, Norway, Oslo
Senior Network Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, Remote
⭐️ Senior Network Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA ⭐️
Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
Principal Network Developer - Cluster Networking @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
⭐️ Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London ⭐️
IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
Senior Network DevOps/Automation Engineer @ Garmin, Permie, USA, KS
Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
System Development Engineer II @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN
Head Of Site Reliability Engineering @ Hashgraph, Permie, USA, Remote
Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
Site Reliability Engineer (Network Automation) @ Thales, Permie, UK, Belfast
Network Automation Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
Professional Services Engineer (US Timezone) @ NetBox Labs, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior Network Engineer @ HFT via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £300k+, UK, London
⭐️ Network Engineer @ G-Research, Permie, UK, London ⭐️
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Hedge Fund via Saragossa, Permie, £140k+, UK, London
IT Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA
Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote
Network DevOps Engineer @ Ocado Technology, Permie, UK, Hatfield
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
Network Reliability Manager @ CME Group, Permie, UK, London
Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+,USA
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
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
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
AI Impact on Work: Most Affected Jobs, AI Tools to Master, Staying Competitive is part-paywalled but indicative of what the solopreneur community sees happening to work in the AI age 🤔
CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good and TSVs only exist in the hearts and minds of an Excel data import 📀
Claude AI Prompt Library is the collection of prompting hints you didn’t know you needed, for everything from Lesson planning, Coding, PII removal and even Corporate bullshit detection 💼
Kaytu's AI platform boosts cloud efficiency by analyzing historical usage and delivering intelligent recommendations and it’s open source; AI FinOps anyone? 💰
Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea explores the AI craze on programming in detail, with an interesting conclusion 🤖
Events 📅
NANOG 92, Toronto, 21 - 23 October 2024
AI Networking Summit New York , New York, 23 - 24 October 2024
AI for the rest of us, London, 24 - 25 October 2024
AI-NATIVE NOW, Zurich, 29 October 2024
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
AI Networking Summit London, London, 10 December 2024
Industry 🏭
New world record for wireless data is 9000 times faster than 5G as UCL leaves Wi-Fi in the dust trails 💩
Navigating Network Automation with NetBox – The Design Stage covers the often forgotten upfront stage of planning your Automation ecosystem before you plough straight into VS Code and start tapping away 💭
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the Internet afloat is a fascinating insight into the ships and subs that keep the intertubes pumping those ASNs around ⚓️
Analyst on Starlink’s rapid rise: “Nothing short of mind-blowing” making a household name for LEO in less than 5 years is quite a feat by Elon 🛰️
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 💬.