Tuning in to BGP Path Hunting in the wild
eNMS has a cool logo; SERDES is geeky even for us; Path Hunting in BGP is more nuanced than you thought; time travelling to stop Terra-mis-forms and more
This week’s edition has some 40/100 Gig tuning guides; a cool open source Network Automation Platform; half a dozen 🐣 awesome Network Automation job hirings; Ansible tips and tricks and even Terraform tips and tricks to keep the balance ⚖️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
eNMS is an enterprise-grade vendor-agnostic network automation platform that’s not quite an NMS (as in - you’ll like it), but not quite pure NetDevOps tools either
40G/100G Network Tuning is very different to 1/10 Gig networking, so worth a read for those of you with Linux endpoints to
mess withoptimiseReview of 10 Gb Ethernet (64B/66B SERDES) Concepts is a very deep dive 🌊 into the world of 10 GbE
Path Hunting in BGP details the mechanisms BGP uses to determine the best amongst differing available AS_PATHs in the network
Hiring 💼
Network Infrastructure Automation Engineer @ Lidl, Permie, £64k, UK, Tolworth
Network Automation Engineer via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, €90k+, Germany
Network Automation Engineering Lead – Hedge Fund @ Saragossa, Permie, £150k, UK, London (Hybrid)
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Tucows, Permie, $120k+, USA/Canada/UK/EU
Senior Network Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, $126k+, USA, New York/San Francisco
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
NotEng 🤔
Ansible Tips and Tricks is a handy quick-start guide into structuring, deploying and using your IaC Runbooks better
A future-proof Terraform provider definition stops you making a common mistake with TF which will see your future self hate your current self 🤖
The top 7 software engineering workflow tips I wish I knew earlier has some great day-in-the-life tips that might help your Network Coding flow quicker
Why We Don’t Ship Software as Fast as We Used To delves into the complex web 🕸️ of abstractions we’ve weaved ourselves with modern Development
Events 📅
Industry 🏭
Identity of ‘third party’ that brought down Optus network revealed but please put your pitchforks down, Aussies - it was BGP all along 🥄
Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem is another data-optimised offering that feels a bit similar to Infiniband or FC
PagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io sounds cool to us, but we’re stuck using ServiceNOW and BMC Remedy 😞
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs 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 💬.