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Understanding how DNS B-Root works; using your SQL power for good; k'exploring kubernetes; modern engineering is older than you think and more
This week we wrangle 🤼♂️ with SQL commands; understand one of the original DNS Root Servers 😎; troubleshoot DHCP that never responds ⏲️; Slurp’it all up 🍹 in a new NMS tool; fumble 🍂 with AWS; get to grips with SoT and apply for a job 💼 or ninety-three. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Understanding DNS query composition at B-Root walks through stats and architecture from one of the OG DNS Root Servers (did we mention there’s an awesome DNS Course to help master all this DNS stuff? Plug 🔌 much?)
DHCP Server Eventually Responding walks through DHCP in practice, and why that little “shut / no shut” trick doesn’t always work after a long time 🕵️
NOC Project is a scalable ITSM, NMS, OSS and Wiki all in one box, and is worth a look if you’re an AltNet or small ISP or Enterprise without cash or with DevOps chops 🥷
Your database skills are not 'good to have' but we didn’t even know “EXPLAIN” was a SQL command; SELECT * FROM memory; INNER JOIN (“explain command”)… 😖
Slurp’it is a powerful and easy-to-use network discovery solution that offers 100% accurate network inventory and it looks cool ☃️ to boot with TextFSM integration and more
Hiring 💼
⭐ Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon ⭐
Network Designer - NetDevOps @ BT, Permie, UK, Ipswich
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Manager - NetDevOps @ United Airlines, Permie, USA, Chilcago IL
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Packet Network & Systems Architect @ Colt, Permie, Spain, Madrid
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Operations Engineer @ Google, Permie, UK (Remote), SC/NSV Clearance
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
Fumbling with AWS is a story we can all relate to; there is no right or wrong in the Cloud, just cost implications 💀
The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices are older than you might think; and remember, even in 2024, someone somewhere still has a juicy FTP Share with free bins on it, mmm tasty 🫦
k'exp - Kubernetes Explorer let’s you visualise a k8s cluster, including all the network glue like Service Mesh that sticks it all together 🔥
Source of Truth Series - Ecosystem takes a detailed look through the SoT approach, such as NSoT (i.e. NetBox) when contrasted against the usual ITIL CMDB 🤮
Events 📅
Cisco Live! Europe, Amsterdam, 5-9 February 2024
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27-31 May 2024
Industry 🏭
Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model which explains why you might have noticed Bard is getting better than ChatGPT recently 💪
Lego is selling CCNA Starter Kits (not really) - if only they really did, and you could level up from Duplo CCNA to Lego CCNP… 📈
Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos so maybe don’t deploy those post-firing.bat scripts just yet 🛑
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 💬.