This week win a free O’Reilly Arista Warrior book 📖; learn how EVM impacts Wi-Fi signals 🛜; use the Internet without IPv4 🌐; get hands-on with NetDevOps in AWS ☁️; how much should you spend on o11y 💰; the Network is becoming the Computer 🖥️ and Arista acquires something from Broadcom 🤔. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
How EVM Impacts Wi-Fi : The Math Behind EVM is like MIMO but with more walls, more bouncing, more angles and more trauma from quadratics at school 🧮
Change Control Without Proper Automation Is Just Delayed Risk so tell your ITSM colleague loudly and proudly “IT’IL never work” with a smile on your face and evidence behind you 😏
Industrial Ethernet switch an I/O & Networking winner is a quick insight into the world of IIoT and Industrial Ethernet with vendors you may not have heard of; here, the likes of Cisco and Juniper are not kings 🏭
Using the Internet without IPv4 connectivity dives into what happens when an upstream CG-NAT failure leaves you with lots of AAAA but no A to get to 🛜
From Network Blind Spots to Customer Clarity: The Power of Overlay Service Telemetry makes APM real using gNMIc, Prometheus and Docker in a VXLAN lab to see what you can see without legacy SNMP 👀
EVPN on Catalyst - Layer 2 actually explains what EVPN is doing at Layer 2 in Cisco Catalyst CLI speak as well as making concepts like VTEP real and easy to understand 🚧
Hands-On NetDevOps Fundamental Series #1: Deploy an S3 Bucket on AWS using Terraform and actually enjoy doing it and getting your way into real DevOps stuff without much fuss 🦾
Videos, Tools and Papers 🎓⚒️
Arista AVD and Containerlab with Lima VM
(Video, 50 mins, Intermediate)Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping
(GitHub, Tool)Network RAG Pipeline to ingest Network Design with an LLM
(GitHub, Tutorial)Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge (read: GitHub)
(Tool, Self-Hosted, Version Control)SimpleProxy is a CERN-compatible HTTP/S proxy server in Go
(GitHub, Tool)
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 👂
🇬🇧🔥 This week’s Hot Hirings
🇬🇧 Senior Network Product Engineer @ Cloud Gateway, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Infrastructure Lead @ University of East London, UK, London
🇮🇪 Network Deployment Engineer @ Meta, Ireland, Dublin
🇮🇪 Network Engineer @ Abbott, Ireland, Dublin
🇨🇦 Senior Network Manager @ Equinix, Canada, Toronto
🇩🇪 Network Administrator @ Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Dusseldorf
NotEng 🤔
Of Course Workers Want a Four-Day Week. Companies Should Too and the time of the AI LLM might finally be the tool to usher it in 🤖
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability? tries to put a value on the hardest question of all - “If a Network falls in the woods and nobody is looking”… 🌴
Unlocking Agentic with Go MCP takes you through using an MCP and a file system to start messing with stored files 🗄️
HTTP QUERY and Go explores the little-known HTTP “
query” method and why you might want to use it instead of the well-knownGETmethod 🧑🎓On Stepping Back especially from the AI onslaught, remember to take a day off, touch grass, and realise lots of this is fluff and bluster from an unevenly-distributed future that might never happen 😇
The network is indeed trying to become the computer and is breaking the way we used to use metrics like Moore’s Law to measure progress 📈
The yaml document from hell reminds us that YAML is painful when it comes to duality of meanings, nobody expects Norway to pop up when you expected a boolean… 🇳🇴
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
📢 Conferences
NetUK2, London, 7 - 8 July 2025
AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025
Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025
AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025
BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025
Industry 🏭
Arista Acquires a Networking Unit From Broadcom in some kind of Uno-reverso and gets to all the VeloCloud SD-x goodness 🌦️
What Happens When Your CCTV Becomes a Cyber Threat? and your SD-WAN starts acting a bit “weird”, but you can’t quite put your finger on it 👇
Cloudflare Launches Containers in Public Beta so maybe the time of Container-based NVA/VNFs at the Edge is finally upon us rather than building out those Web Silo Internet DMZs everywhere 🧐
Rack-scale networks are the new hotness for massive AI training and inference workloads what’s old is new and VXblock and it’s like were probably ahead of their time? 🤘
Broadcom Pitches Ethernet for AI Scale Up and brings Tomahawk 6 the 102 Tbps Ethernet switch ASIC 🍟
INE Releases Top Five Takeaways from Cisco Live 2025 will surprise you with one two-letter keyword we’re sure, hey guy… 🙋♂️
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 💬.