This week we learn if 802.11v is problematic 😳; turn your Source of Truth into a Service Factory 🏭; watch Cilium crush the kubernetes CNI competition 🎽; delegate IPv6 with DHCP-PD on FortiGates 🔥; learn Word Embedding for LLMs 🚧; estimate with less-than in a more-than way 🌈; stare into the Void for a Cursor alternative 🦾; hope we’re on the right side of the LLM Curve of Impact 👊 and scare ourselves silly about how AI might takeover in the next two years 😭. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Is 802.11v Problematic? and do you even know the difference between 802.11k and 802.11v? Come 802.11find-out 🛜
IPv6 hexspeak upgrades the old
DE:AD:BE:EFwith some great IPv6 Address equivalents fancy returning to theFD00:0FF1:CE::anyone? I didn’t think so… 🏢How To Turn Your Source Of Truth Into A Service Factory brings together a Service Delivery case using NSoT, YAML Playbooks, Infrahub and Jira-like operations to bring together Network Service delivery to the End User 🚚
Why Cilium Is Crushing the Competition as the Go-To CNI for Kubernetes also walks into CNI, competitors, why and how and a dive into what differentiates the big C 🕵️
Fortigate Firewalls Hardware - CPU model and number, Memory (RAM) and hard disk size datasheet table in case you’ve ever wanted to get to the FortiBottom of what FortiChip is actually within that FortiHardware you just FortiPurchased 🫤
DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation on a FortiGate Firewall a.k.a. DHCPv6-PD if you have a tonne of Forti gear and are looking to implement IPv4 pratices in the IPv6 world 🌍
DNS64 and NAT64 on SRX Series sticks with the v6 theme on everyone’s favourite Juniper Firewall for dual-stack goodness 🔀
Large Language Models (LLM) - Part 1/2: Word Embedding is part one of a series exploring how AI LLMs such as GPT work, with a Network Engineer-slant on how to learn things 🎓
Learning 🎓
Now you can too! Design-driven automation
(Video, 47 mins, Beginner)Aviation Village - CAN Bus in Aviation
(Video, 11 mins, Intermediate)Gitlab CI/CD and Runners - A Beginners Guide
(Video, 10 mins, Beginner)RAG and route: Enhancing networks to support Amazon Bedrock (NET211)
(Video, 50 mins, Intermediate)
Hiring 💼
We’re (still, still…) working 🛠️ on something cool here, stay tuned 📻…
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Backend Infrastructure Engineer @ Not Diamond, Permie, USA, SF/NY
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Google, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Network Architecture Intern @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Distributed Cloud Network Systems Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Principal Network Engineer @ Paylocity, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
🇺🇸 IT Network Lead - WAN @ Baxter, Permie, USA, IL
🇺🇸 Data Center Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ Intrepid Fiber Networks, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Aviatrix, Permie, USA, TX
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ The University of Manchester, Contract, UK Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Barclays, Permie, UK, Knutsford
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Royal Ballet & Opera, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 Network Engineer Optical @ Meta, Permie, UK/Ireland, London/Dublin
🇬🇧 Network Management Specialist @ BT, Permie, UK, Hemel Hempstead
🇬🇧 Restaurant Network Engineer @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Services Lead @ Yorkshire Building Society, Permie, UK, Bradford
🇬🇧 Senior Network Architect @ Nationwide, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Network Rail, Permie, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ CACI, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 IP Network Designer @ BT, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ Community Fibre, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Cloud Network Specialist @ Accenture, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Edge Network Engineer @ ByteDance, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Verisk, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Systems Engineer - Juniper (Mist) @ Tesco, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Betway, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ DRW, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇪🇸 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
🇩🇪 Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
🇳🇱 DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🌎 Rest of World
🇦🇪 Lead Platform Owner - Network @ Emirates NBD, Permie, UAE, Dubai
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
Less-Than Estimation is the task estimation hack you didn’t know you needed; forget Story Points, WAgile or “double your thought” methods, this is it to keep PMs off your back 📆
How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years was a horrifying prediction of the near future which really Opened our Eyes to what might happen to us all not too far from now 🦿
The LLM Curve of Impact on Software Engineers means if you’re in the first half you’re mostly toast; but how can it even be a curve if there’s nobody to be the first left-half… 📈
Void is the open source AI code editor that’s an equivalent to Cursor 🎩
Advice For Junior Devs Who Aren't Quitting Because AI boils down to keep on trucking, but has great insight from someone who’s been through a few rounds of tech change before 🌊
Personal Software is the next big wave that AI enables to disrupt SaaS; if you’ve been playing with Lovable or Replt, you’ll know what we mean 🥷
6 Must Have Software Engineering Templates for things like Design Docs, Feedback Templates, One Pagers, 1-2-1/PDP Templates and more 📚
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 NetBCN March 2025, 3 March 2025, UOC 22@ Barcelona
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
AI Tinkerers London, London, 25 February 2025
AI Tinkerers Rome, Rome, 3 March 2025
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Peering Days 2025, Split, 25 - 27 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
CHI-NOG 12, Chicago, 15 May 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Why You Should Implement a CI/CD Pipeline for Networking (& How to Do It) is a really technical piece for a vendor marketing one, and well worth a read of how Itential think about NetDevOps 🤔
Salt Typhoon Hackers Used Old Cisco Bug, Stolen Credentials to Hop on Routers but you knew this already unless you thought this was that super-special hot bagel you could order that all your friends were raving about 🥯
Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills to Platform9’s PCD offering, which might be worth telling your VMware Admin chums about if they didn’t know ✌️
Riverbed Launches Smart OTel, a Game Changer in OpenTelemetry hotting up in the AIOps space with something slightly different from the normal NMS soup 🍲
Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers so they can really put the M deep in DWDM, about thirty fathoms deep 🐡
IP Fabric expands network visibility, automation with platform update in the 7th edition of the profilific Network Visibility come Network Assurance tool 💪
Massive brute force attack uses 2.8 million IPs to target VPN devices and you’ll never guess which vendors it impacted, clickbait here to find out… or else 😅
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 💬.