Yet Another Flip.ing Internet TLD (YAFIT?)
Google unleashes a new domain extension; Confluence servers get a bit choppy upstream; orange is the new... {DNS BGP pun here} and more
This week’s edition helps you clean up your Python code 🐍, gives you fear for your SD-WAN deployments, helps you master cURL and even has pearls of wisdom from a billionaire 💰. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Clean Code in Python becomes more of a necessity the more Network Automation stuff you do on the daily
DNS is the new BGP explains the difference between Service Names, Application Names and plain old FQDNs (it’s never DNS; until it 📟 definitely is)
Egress Controls with Amazon Route 53 DNS Resolver Firewall is a succinct write-up of using AWS’ NGFW capability to do native FQDN-based ACLs and more
SD-WAN New Hope is a GitHub repo of exploit tools 🛠️ and techniques for a variety of SD-WAN platforms to help you secure your new WAN Edge
Hiring 💼
Network Infrastructure Automation Engineer @ Lidl, Permie, £64k, UK, Tolworth
Network Automation Specialist - Cisco Partner via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £70k, UK, Remote
Network Automation Engineering Lead – Hedge Fund @ Saragossa, Permie, £150k, UK, London (Hybrid)
Senior Network Automation Engineer @ Tucows, Permie, $120k+, USA/Canada/UK/EU
Sidenote: We’re glad tucows are still going - the original DNS Registrar!
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
NotEng 🤔
The Only Bash Scripting Cheat Sheet That You Will Ever Need is pretty, pretty, pretty good (thanks, LD 👓)
The Revised Psychology of Human Misjudgment, by Charlie Munger is considered the magnum opus on why we behave the way we do (apparently 🤭)
Mastering curl: interactive text guide takes you through useful cURL commands and tricks in a brilliant interactive tutorial format ℹ️
Avoid Common Pitfalls with Serverless Architecture – Expert Tips on what to avoid, and do, if you’re coming into the Serverless world anew
Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis should help in those awkward “but why?” conversations with your less-technical boss 💡
Events 📅
Industry 🏭
Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence server is under “mass exploitation” so get patching for CVE-2023-22518
Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage which took down a huge chunk of Cloudflare’s Monitoring the other week between Nov 2-4
Google Launches New Domain Extension for More Unique URLs because the Internet .com is flip.ing practically full now (yes, we’re .ingratiating)
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 💬.