When the CDN flares up, you go down
Is there an ointment for that?
This episode we enable SQM to fight our home QoS battles 🐍; track Starlink’s growth over 3 years 💥; Cluedo that MTU did it in the Zscaler room with the candlestick 🕯️; use Gemini to test in EVE-NG 🤖; learn how to think like a Developer for NetOps folks 🧐; introduce ourselves to NVIDIA NCCL 🛟; teach our AI to be like a Senior Engineer 👷 and learn how AI broke interviews entirely 💼. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Stop upgrading routers: enable SQM and fix your home’s real bottleneck is a reminder that QoS isn’t just for
Christmaswork, it’s also useful for your home FTTx and DSL broadband connections too 🎅Blast-Off: 3.5 Years of Starlink’s Growth (Part 2) carries on from the first part in covering the LEO giant’s stratospheric rise to planetary… yeah ok, more space puns here, but an interesting dive into how AWS does Transit and IPv6 for the service ⚡️
Generally Available: DNS flow trace logs for Azure Firewall is finally here, so no need to jimmy your DNS lookups elsewhere just so they’re logged while the rest of your traffic goes out via Azure’s Internet 🤙
It was MTU! Zscaler over GRE behind Palo, blocking ICMP Frag Needed because if it’s not DNS, and you’re sure it’s not DNS, and you’re definitely sure you’re sure… then it’s probably MTU or NTP 🕣
Testing Gemini CLI for Network Troubleshooting Inside EVE-NG and a reminder that they’ve also got Google Jules which might bend to some NetDevOps needs 🐙
Top 5 reasons why access points fail to join the WLC and none of them are “because it isn’t plugged in yet” - are you really alive if the cleaner hasn’t unplugged your AP because they thought it was a ceiling vaccum? Just us? 🤖
Wi-Fi 7 – Multi-Link Association turbocharges everything you thought you knew about MIMO in the 802.11 world with PCAP proofs to boot 🛜
NCAT5 LEO Satellite Video covers all the satellites in space over the course of a day; there’s a lot of dishes up there in outer space, man 🧑🚀
Training 🎓
🏦 Cisco U CE Credits
💡 Re-certify your CCNA or CCNP with these free Cisco U courses Continuing Education (CE) credits:
Cisco U: Understanding Cisco Data Center Foundations (DCFNDU)
(Course, 25 CE Credits, 33h)
🪚 Tools
Topolograph MCP is awesome
(AI, MCP, Visualisation)wifichannel tool
(Wireless, Blog, 802.11)Jules - An Autonomous Coding Agent
(AI Tool, Coding, Agentic)DNSPerf DNS Speed Benchmark
(DNS, Checker, Internet)
🎓 Learning
Communicating With the Future
(Paper, Digital Archiving, Storage)Automation API software
(Slideshow, c4o, NetDevOps)Network Engineers’ Introductory Guide to NCCL
(Tutorial, AI, NVIDIA Language)
🎥 Videos and Papers
Modern Network Observability
(Video, 1 hr, o11y)How To *Think* Like A Developer (For Network Engineers)
(Video, 10 mins, NetDevOps)Closed loop automation demo - HPE Juniper Networking
(Video, 6 mins, Network Automation)Fighting Route Leaks at Cloudflare
(Video, 30 mins, Internet Exchange)
Hiring 💼
📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.
It’s also free to list a job if you’re hiring and want to let us know 👂
🤫 Secret Subscriber-only Jobs
🇬🇧 Network Support Engineer @ A Vendor, UK, London/Remote
🇬🇧 Senior Network Security Engineer @ A Bank, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ A FinTech, UK, London/Hybrid
🔥 (just some of) This week’s Hot Hirings
🇨🇦 Network Engineer @ Cerebras Systems, Canada, Toronto
🇩🇪 Network Automation Developer @ SAP, Germany, Berlin
🇮🇳 Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, India, Remote
🇮🇪 Production Network Engineer @ Google, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 Senior Network Automation Engineer @ QRT, UK, London
🇺🇸 Zero Trust Network Engineer @ SoFi, USA, FL/NY
NotEng 🤔
I went from a team of over two dozen engineers to an AI-powered team of 6. Here’s my advice for engineers told to embrace AI is short, sharp and may be a telling indicator for Engineering Manager’s of the future 🏭
Software engineer reveals the dirty little secret about AI coding assistants: They don’t save much time… depending on what you’re doing and how well you already knew it anyway 😎
Teach Your AI to Think Like a Senior Engineer with eight planning strategies to braindump the rules and stuff you know into the LLM, so you can go and have a coffee while it brews up some fresh code or config for you ☕️
Forecasts of AI & Economic Growth opines on what the future economy could look like with AI, using data and stats rather than thoughts and prayers 🤔
AI Broke Interviews but you knew this already, and in the near future will probably be travelling to interviews much more than dialling in via Teams or Zoom 🧑💻
The Creator Advantage advocates for build in public, and while you may not be building a product in the SaaS sense, lots of the principles within are easily transferable to whatever you’re building at work 🤑
AI Code Review Tool — CodeRabbit Replaces Me And I Like It because nobody likes reviewing code, not even if they wrote it 6 months ago and can’t work out what their previous self was thinking at Line 54… 🤬
The Power of Schema: Turning Automation in Knowledge Graphs brings relationship modelling and - you guessed it - YAML - to AI-powered infrastructure management undertakings 🏓
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule
NetBCN November 2025 Meetup, Barcelona, 27 November 2025
London Network Automation Meetup, London, 29 January 2026
📢 Conferences
🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help
AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025
France IX Tour, Paris, 27 November 2025, France
CoNEXT 2025, Hong Kong, 1 - 4 December 2025
CHNUG, Switzerland, 4 December 2025
LeNetDevOps, Toulose, 27 January 2026
APRICOT 2026, Jakarta, 4 - 12 February 2026
Industry 🏭
Farewell to Starlink monopoly - Amazon launches Amazon Leo, its new satellite internet with more than 150 satellites already in orbit in what might be the most astute product naming ever from a company that brought you Elastic Beanstalks and Glaciers 🛰️
Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query and in case you’ve been living under a differing CDN rock, you most probably noticed;
SELECT * FROM internet THEN deny🚫29-year-old internet provider plans to cut ties with customers and it’s not one we’d heard of this side of the pond, but it seems big in the VSAT world? 📡
BDUK Publish Q2 – Q3 2025 Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout Progress Report for a view of rural and remote broadband rollout to the vast extremities of the UK isles 🏝️
SpaceX’s Starlink secures more spectrum and airlines as it passes 8 million customers and will not take Mr Bezos’ Leo offering lying down, or up, or a little more left…a bit more right… bingo, that’s the full 5 bar sync! 🛰️
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 💬.