This week we’ve got Automation Success 💪 stories; making network labs 🧪 easy with Containerlab; why Azure does Networking to the Internet 🛜 weird; a study plan 🔖 for DEVCOR; ZIP bombs get a parquet 📦 ceiling upgrade; Staff Engineering archetypes 🥸; avoiding blundering to execute 🏹 Strategy and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Hedge 216: Automation Success Stories (49 mins) talks through real-world success stories around Network Automation to get your creative NetDevOps juices flowing 🧉
Containerlab - Creating Network Labs Can't Be Any Easier and if you haven’t tried it yet, you’ll absolutely love nearly everything about it, it’s everything you ever wanted EVE-NG and IOU to be 😍
Azure Networking Fundamentals: Internet Access with VM-Specific Public IP because Networking in Azure is weird, like “by default, your VM gets Internet access with no Public IP or Gateway” weird 🤪
k8spacket - packets traffic visualization for kubernetes will help you make some sense of the veth, vbridge and general NAT virtual insanity occurring within your kubernet-work-es 🧊
Cisco Certified DevNet Professional Core (DEVCOR v1.1) - Comprehensive Study Plan (15 mins) from the late, great Nick Russo takes you through everything you need to blueprint for this monster NetDevOps exam 🚀; you’re sadly missed
Hiring 💼
👉 Senior Solutions Architect, Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA/NC/TX
Network Engineer @ NTT Data, Permie, Dubai, UAE
Networking and Automation: Staff Engineer @ Zscaler, Permie, India, Bangalore
Network Automation Senior Developer @ Accenture, Permie, USA, TN
Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
Senior Network Engineer @ OzarksGo, Permie, USA, AR
⭐️ Network Engineer @ OpenAI, Permie, USA, CA
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
Senior Network Developer (Python/Terraform) @ Oracle, Permie, Phillippines, Makati
Network Engineer - Core Platforms @ Booking.com, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Developer 2 @ Oracle, Permie, $180k+, USA, TX/VA
Network Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA, IL/TX/PA
Cloud Optical Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, WA
Senior Network Engineer - Monitoring & Automation @ CoStar Group, Permie, USA, CA
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ AstraZeneca, Permie, Mexico, Guadalajara
Production Services Engineer, Infrastructure Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
NetDevOps Senior Lead SRE @ JP Morgan Chase, Permie, Argentina, Buenos Aires
Network SRE @ XTX Markets, Permie, £150k+, UK, London
Associate Net DevOps Engineer @ Aryaka Networks, Permie, India, Bengaluru
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps @ Kunai, Permie, USA, TX/VA
Principal Infrastructure Engineer @ Anaplan, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, $190k+, USA, ID
Staff Network Reliability Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, CA/NY/WA
Senior Systems Engineer Smart Routing @ Cloudflare, Permie, USA (Remote)
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
TFTUI - The Terraform textual UI is useful if you spend a lot of time in Terraform but can’t make
headortail -f🫏 of the .tfstate and other filesWhy Google failed to make GPT-3 + why Multimodal Agents (41 mins) are the path to AGI if you’re struggling to keep pace with the AI hype train and want a solid 3/4 hour worth of immersion 🤖
42.parquet – A Zip Bomb for the Big Data Age turns a 42 KB file into over 4 PB of data when decompressed; FAT16 would not be happy with that 🛞
Staff archetypes takes you through a day-in-the-life calendar view of many popular types of Engineer, focussing more on pseudo-roles like “Right Hand” or “Tech Lead” than domain-specific job titles 🚣♂️
Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy is basically doing it, but with a view to doing it right rather than right now ⏰
Events 📅
Capacity Eurasia, Bodrum, 2 - 3 July 2024
NetUK 1, London, 8 - 9 July 2024
Networking Field Day 35, Silicon Valley, 10 - 11 July 2024
SANS Network Security 2024, Las Vegas, 4 - 9 September 2024
Public Sector Cloud and AI Conference, Edinburgh, 24 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
NANOG 92, Toronto, 21 - 23 October 2024
Industry 🏭
The Fight for AI Talent: Pay Million-Dollar Packages and Buy Whole Teams brings a new spin on the term acquihire for AIcquihire (patent pending, send cheques for copyright) ©️
Google to stop peering via route servers so it’s back to back-to-back-to-rack-to-rack peering again if you want a slice of the Big G eyeballs 👀
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources although we can’t imagine there’s much space or power left in the land of Guinness for any more feckin’ Data Centres ☘️
Telecom's next big G is bankrupG maybe the Telcos need more Ali G and less 5G, Booyakasha! 💍
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 💬.