This week we explore iPad ping over WiFi vs LAN 😎; automating Network Performance testing with iPerf3 🚧; making a custom Ansible filter 🚦; slow TCP connect on Windows 🐌; practices of reliable Software Design 🫶; arguing against Naming Conventions 🩴 and IPv6 coming to AWS VPCs⚡️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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iPad Ping: WLAN vs. LAN (German, use Google Translate) is a real-world investigation into why your work network likely outperforms your home network in practice 🧙
Network Performance Tests with Iperf3 and Python lets you know how to semi-automate end-to-end link and synthetic testing of network bandwidth and RTT 🧪
Developing a custom Ansible filter plugin can be really useful if you have an output that isn’t quite how you want it to be, like a nested dict when you really just need a flat array 🫡
Slow TCP connect on Windows dives deep into the TCP stack on Windows, and reminds us of a time when Reno, BBR and Tahoe were things people optimised for 📊
History of HTTPS Usage takes you through how SSL became TLS, and then 1.0 became 1.3, and basically everyone called an SSL vacuum a TLS hoover over time 🧤
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
⭐️ Senior Network Peering Engineer @ Disney, Permie, USA, TX/NC/NY/CA ⭐️
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, USA, CA
Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
Staff Networking Engineer @ GitHub, Permie, USA, Remote
Corporate Network Engineer @ Stripe, Permie, USA, Remote
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
IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
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
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
IT Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA
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 Design Subject Matter Expert @ Network Rail, Permie, UK, Manchester ⭐️
Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
Site Reliability Engineer (Network Automation) @ Thales, Permie, UK, Belfast
Network Engineer @ G-Research, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Hedge Fund via Saragossa, Permie, £140k+, UK, London
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Network Reliability Manager @ CME Group, Permie, UK, London
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
⭐️ Network Architect @ Capgemini, Permie, Norway, Oslo ⭐️
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
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
🌎 Rest of World
⭐️ Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote ⭐️
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Practices of Reliable Software Design you can implement to become a more RESTful (sorry…) NetDevOps soul 🥶
Against Names argues against worrying about the significance of atypical Naming Conventions and offers an alternative approach that makes more sense, especially when coding 🪪
Individual efficiency vs administrative efficiency is a set of “script it or do it?” principals you can apply to everything from Network Automation to optimising your Corporate workday or Study activity 🧳
How to say "No" and win back your time as a software engineer definitely applies in the NetDevOps and Network Engineering world; your time is precious and best protected by the human ACL of saying the two-letter word ⛔️
Weak Soft Skills: Why you are stuck at the Senior engineer level because soft skills are like soft-scoop ice cream; everyone says it’s not as good as the real thing, but you can’t move for ice cream vans or cafe’s successfully selling it 🍦
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
📢 Conferences
AI-NATIVE NOW, Zurich, 29 October 2024
Juniper Inspire Spain, Madrid, 7 November 2024
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
AI Networking Summit London, London, 10 December 2024
(TX)NUG Dallas Winter Event 2024, Dallas, 25 January 2024
Conf42 DevOps 2024, Virtual, 25 January 2024
Industry 🏭
‘0.0.0.0 Day’ browser flaw enables malicious requests to local networks but they missed a trick saying there’s no place like
127.0.0.1
👠AWS announces private IPv6 addressing for VPCs and subnets a mere decade or so after IPv6 was released to the wild 🦓
HPE's $14B bid for Juniper waved through by UK regulator making HuniPer a more likely thing 🫐
Researchers: Weak Security Defaults Enabled Squarespace Domains Hijacks and are applicable to lots of web hosts and attack vectors such as “dangling DNS” alike 🤔
Dataiku Survey: Only 20% of Senior IT Leaders Are Using Generative AI in Production might have crept up a bit higher by now 🚀
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 💬.