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This week we remind ourselves what the DCI looked like in AOL’s day 👵; solve TCP window scaling issues with eBPF ✅; translate from Japanese for GCP Cloud Network Professional exam nuggets 🌟; use somo as an alternative to netstat 🤼; await the AI Crash with anticip-AI-tion 📉; learn about the history of BIRD routing daemon 🐧; follow the spotlight for the best Projects 💡 and use a WLAN Pi Go for Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi 7 goodness 🥧. Let’s dive in; ⬇️

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• America Online ramps up IP transport network with DWDM over dark fiber is a 25-year old post that gives some insight into the history of the DCI for Data Centre connect back in the old days 👵

• Editing Palo Configs by Scripts: pan-os-php gives a PHP-based CLI to mass-edit Palo Alto configs, and if nothing else, might remind you it isn’t just Python in use in Network Automation scripts 🐘

• Old man yells at cloud: a mini-book on AWS networking is an entertaining look through AWS Networking, from VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables and even Terraform, and with added ducks 🦆

• When TCP Window Scaling Broke Our API - and How I Solve It with eBPF is an alternative to the traditional tcpdump or Wireshark approach that quickly reaps rewards 🥅

• Professional Cloud Network Engineer Exam Complete Guide 2025 is in translated Japanese, but crammed full of nuggets if you’re going for this exam soon 🧐

• Change Control Without Proper Automation Is Just Delayed Risk so don’t throw the ITSM baby out with the Waterfall ITIL bath water just yet 🍼

• Juniperhatesyou is an interestingly-named Web Directory Listing (that’s what we called repos before GitHub was a thing) of useful Juniper-related images, guides, firmware and more 🥾

• BGP Protocol Interactive Tutorial is as the post says a comprehensive guide to the Border Gateway Protocol 👍

• The history and development of BIRD (Internet Routing Daemon)
  (Video, 12 mins, BGP)

• WLAN Pi Go Official Launch Livestream
  (Video, 1 hour, Wi-Fi)

• somo is a human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring
  (GitHub, Tool, NetOps)

• LLM Engineer Toolkit repo of 120+ LLM libraries and use cases
  (GitHub, Repo, AI)

• WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding
  (Paper, PDF, InfoSec)

• How To Become a $250K Cloud Engineer in 2025
  (Video, 13 mins, Cloud/Networking)

📢 The Reload in 10 Jobs Board is here 🥳, with a hand-picked selection of awesome Network Engineering, NetDevOps and Network Automation jobs.

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• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ G-Research, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ LMAX Group, UK, London

• 🇬🇧 Senior Network Engineer @ News Corp, UK, London

• 🇮🇪 Senior Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Ireland, Dublin

• 🇨🇦 Senior Principal Network Architect @ Equinix, Canada, Toronto

• 🇸🇪 Network Implementation Engineer @ GlobalConnect, Sweden, Copenhagen

• 🇺🇸 Senior Staff Core Network Engineer SRE @ Google, USA, CA

• 🇺🇸 Avionics Network Integration Engineer @ Blue Origin, USA, WA

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• The AI Crash Is Coming - And That's Exactly What We Need when you’re in the middle of a bubble forming, there’s only one thing left for it eventually to do, don’t look down 📉

• Software engineering under the spotlight also applies to those of us in the Infrastructure space, especially if you’re an introvert - remember, interesting work follows interested people ☯️

• Silicon Valley's quest to remove friction from our lives but who asked them to, and what happens in a world where there’s more friction doing the dishes than buying a car? 🚗

• Reinventing EA for the AI Era: EA Frameworks are Dead. R.I.P. TOGAF. Hello Reflexive Enterprises. Start Architecting Intelligence, we always preferred the white chocolate honeycomb one they do at Christmas… wait that’s Toblerone you say? 🔺

• 20 Pandas One-Liners That Can Save You Hours of Work are incredibly handy for the multitool that is the Pandas Python data library 🐼

• Ludic's Guide To Getting Software Engineering Jobs also applies to Network and Infrastructure Engineers, times have changed, but jobs are still there, and you may as well approach the search with a sense of humour 🤡

• NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday

• NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday

• NetBCN, Barcelona, See schedule

🎩 Hat-tip to the wonderful Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the help

• FrOSCon, Sankt Augustin, 16 - 17 August 2025

• AfPIF African Peering Forum, Lagos, 19 - 21 August 2025

• Open Source Summit, Amsterdam, 25 - 27 August 2025

• AusNOG 2025, Melbourne, 3 - 4 September 2025

• European Peering Forum, Bucharest, 15 - 17 September 2025

• FutureNet Asia, Singapore, 16 - 17 September 2025

• Juniper AI-Native NOW, Copenhagen, 23 September 2025

• Enterprise Tech Leadership Summit, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2025

• BalticNOG 2025, Vilnius, 24 - 25 September 2025

• NLNOG, Amsterdam, 30 September 2025

• OpenInfra Summit Europe, Paris, 17 - 19 October 2025

• RIPE 91, Bucharest, 20 - 24 October, 2025

• ESNOG, Barcelona, 30 - 31 October 2025

• DENOG 17, Essen, 9 - 11 November 2025

• EMEA Arista Cloud Builders, Munich, 13 November 2025

• AutoCon 4, Austin, 17 - 21 November 2025

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• WLAN Pi Go brings Wi-Fi 7 Analysis to Mobile - By Wi-Fi Professionals, for Wi-Fi Professionals and it’s the coolest thing you can do yet with a Pi to replace your Ekahau scanning efforts 🛰️

• Broadcom Adds New Architecture With Tomahawk Ultra making the fast even faster with ultra-low latency Ethernet capable of as low as 250 ns (that’s n for nano not a typo for m)… 🚤

• How to Build Resilient Networks for AI Production Workloads is mostly all about the Ethernet Fabric, wash after wash after… 🧺

• The IPv6 transition is going faster and further than you might think, we’re nearly 50% of the way there and growing exponentially ⤴️

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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 [email protected] 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.