This week we demystify the inner workings of Speed Test apps 🛥️; get a valuable overview into Wi-Fi 7 7️⃣; use RDMA on a 3.2 Tbps network 🤯; go No NAT November with IPv6 🥸; use WireGuard to fix our VPNs 🔐; learn how LLMs work for IT Infrastructure folk 🎓; ponder on the death of the hands-on Engineering Manager 😵 and wonder why Serverless is less than universal ☁️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Demystifying Speed Tests - Understanding Internet Speed & Performance dives into how those Speed Test widgets actually work under the hood, what they’re surfacing, and how useful they actually are to debugging network issues 💫
Demistfying AWS VPC Lattice if you’ve not had chance to play with the newest VPC-using alternative to Transit Gateways on the AWS Cloud block (that we still mispronounce as “lettuce” all. the. time) 🥬
Wi-Fi 7 Overview distills everything you need to know about the new Wi-Fi generational standards, including those all important letters after the
802.11, speeds, feeds and spectrum features 📻Harnessing 3200 Gbps Network: A Journey with RDMA, EFA, and libfabric delves into the non-IP/Ethernet world of the AI-underpinning Data Centre fabrics and we can’t but help remember Bart Simpson’s useful advice on all things RoCE 🐯
Wireguard: Beyond the most basic configuration labs up a more complex VPN setup using the awesome WireGuard protocol and contrasts with other SSL-VPN and IPsec VPN approaches 🔐
No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4 concludes IPv6 is more prevalent on the Internet than you might have been keeping pace with 🏃🏻➡️
Containerlab - Popularity Exploding because it’s programmable, templatable with IaC and so, so quick to get from “I wonder if that…” to “Yep, it does!” on your Network Labbing needs 🧪
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 Junior Network Engineer @ Jacobs, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Crusoe, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
🇨🇦 Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 🇸🇬 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 Security Engineer @ DRW, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ CityFibre, Permie, UK, Milton Keynes
🇬🇧 Network Security Engineer @ Macquarie, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Graduate Network Engineer @ Opticore, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ Nationwide, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Barclays, Permie, UK, Knutsford/Glasgow
🇬🇧 Staff Network Engineer @ ripple, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 WAN Network Architect @ Fujitsu, Permie, UK, Birmingham
🇮🇪 Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 OT Principal Network Engineer @ National Grid, Permie, UK, Warwick
🇬🇧 Senior Network Architect @ TfL, Permie, £65k+, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, Remote
🇬🇧 Network Solutions Design Specialist @ BT Group, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Principal Network Engineer @ London Stock Exchange, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Design Engineer @ ION, Permie, UK, Woking
🇬🇧 Network and Security Engineer @ Bupa, Permie, UK, London/Manchester/Brighton
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Staff Network Engineer - Cloud Platform @ Wise, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, UK, Remote
🇮🇪 Network Operations Manager @ Crusoe, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 Senior Core Network Engineer @ Cloud Gateway, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Principal Engineer, Zero Trust Network @ GSK, Permie, UK, Stevenage
🇬🇧 Transportation Network Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇬🇧 🇵🇹 Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK/Portugal, Remote
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Network Security Research Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, UK/Germany, Remote
🇳🇱 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
🇷🇴 Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
🇨🇿 Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
🇳🇿 Senior Network Engineer @ 2degrees, Permie, New Zealand
🇵🇭 Network Engineer Cloud @ Reed Elsevier, Permie, Philippines
🇨🇳 Senior Solutions Architect Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, China, Remote
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
NotEng 🤔
System Design Simplified: A Beginner's Guide to Everything You Need to Know (Part 1) of a six-part series takes you through everything you could need to know about where Network, Compute, Storage, Proxies, Load Balancers and the whole shebang fit together in modern App Development 🕹️
How LLMs Work For DevOps, Platform, And Cloud Engineers (8 mins) is a good intro into the magic happening behind the AI and GPTs that might make sense if you’re coming from an IT Infrastructure background 🥼
10 things I find joyful about computers and the Internet in 2024 brings some joy to the increasingly walled-garden feeling of the modern, pop-up-heavy, yes-I’ll-accept-that-cookie-already Interweb 🍪
The slow death of the hands-on engineering manager doesn’t have to keep accelerating if we can get more talent to harness AI for Managerial good 🚀
Does the internet really need even more TLDs? and where do we back-up our truck of monies to get
.reloadinalready? 🚛Why aren't we all serverless yet? and what happens if we do become so, and get Denial of Wallet (DoW) attacked… 💳
Net neutrality eviscerated by appeals court ruling because it’s still not dead, and still different from how Europe and the Rest of the World does it 🌐
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
CfgMgmtCamp 2025, Ghent, 3 - 5 February 2025
NANOG 93, Atlanta, 3 - 5 February 2025
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 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
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help so you better watch out if you’re in Big Tech, those robots are coming 🤖
Huawei and Its Influence on the UK Telecoms Industry is a short but concise look into the Chinese Telco giant’s tentacles within UK ISP and CSPs 🐙
DDoS Protection for Small Wireless ISPs with Limited Router Capabilities is a quick read on how to do DoS if you’re a WISP, Altnet or even cash-strapped ISP 💸
Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from multiple cable cuts leverages the excellent Cloudflare Radar to provide insight into some recent deep-sea cable cuts ⚓️
Google AI Studio is both free, and can do far more with AI, Prompts, suggestions, Model Choice and curation than you might know… 🦾
SRv6 uSID deployment in Swisscom's TITAN Network (48 mins) goes through Swisscom’s Terrabit-enabled SRv6 Service Provider Network transformation 🇨🇭
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