Some summer reading, the just in time principle!
AI
- Generative AI for Beginners
- Prompt Engineering Fundamentals - Generative AI For Beginners - DEV Community
- Watch “Gary Explains - How to Run Google’s New FREE AI Model on Your PC - But is it Any Good?” - YouTube - 10 mins
- Watch “How to run a local AI chatbot on Windows in 5 min, no cuts, no edits, with Ollama, LMStudio, OpenAI” - YouTube - 16 mins
- Watch “Running OLLAMA On Windows 11 - Run LLMs locally on Windows with Ollama” - YouTube - 7 mins
- 3 Rules for Writing Prompts on ChatGPT
- OpenAI Publishes GPT Prompt Engineering Guide
Automation
- Ansible Cheat Sheet
- Watch “Unlocking Network Engineering Insights with Dr. Russ White” on YouTube Part 1 and Part 2
Certification and Careers
- Watch “Advancing Your CCNA Skills with Wendell Odom’s Network Upskill Channel” - YouTube
- AWS Networking Learning Path created by Dmitry Figol - notesform page here
Cisco
Cloud
- Cloud Burst - budget blaster!
- Understanding AWS VPC Lattice
- Documentation tool for AWS Architectures
Data Centre and Open Networking
- DC boom - How insane the data center US real estate boom is getting, in one chart
- Bridging Packet Walk In VXLAN-EVPN Network - Daniels Networking Blog
- EVPN-VXLAN Data Centers - Architecture - Bytes of Cloud
Design
- Visual Guide to the Right DB
Failure
- The Mathematics of Redundancy
Fundamentals
- Awesome Cheatsheets
- Watch “Zero to Hero: Networking Fundamentals Crash Course” - YouTube - 1 hr 8 mins
Juniper
- vSRX on a mini-pc
- Juniper Telemetry Stack - aka. JTS OpenJTS
- Watch “Introducing OpenJTS - Juniper Networks Telemetry Stack” YouTube - 5 mins and “OpenJTS: Installation and Fine Tuning Part 2” YouTube - 13 mins
- CEO Antonio Neri - HPE-Juniper Networks Aims To Disrupt ‘Status Quo’ With ‘Modern AI-Driven Networking Fabric’
- Add JUNOS cli timestamps to your output NetworkFunTimes
- HPE Plus Juniper Networks Creates A Cisco Doppelganger
- Interface bounce - if your running recent enough JUNOS!
Labs
- Watch “Edgeshark & Containerlab. A Web UI for the Wireshark - NetRel 004” - YouTube - 12 mins
- ContainerLab Linux Containers
Programmability
- PowerShell 7 Workshop - Learn to program with PowerShell 7 on Windows, Linux and the Raspberry Pi
Security
- Get Started Today In Introduction to Cybersecurity - Cisco Networking Academy
- Digital Certificates Explained
Service Provider
- Analysis of Google’s IP routing backbone - anuragbhatia.com
- Google to stop Peering via Route Servers
- Is BGP safe yet?
- BGP in 2023 - BGP updates
- Hacker hijacks Orange Spain RIPE account to cause BGP havoc
- RPKI ROA hijack
Tools and Testing
- Hyperglass Looking Glass OSS
- Enhancing network migrations
- Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU
- Testing network configurations using Batfish, Pandas and pytest
And Finally
- Watch “Here’s The Secret How To Create These Animated Diagrams” - YouTube - 11 mins
- Making Network Cool Again
- RIP Nick Russo - a legend in the Cisco and network engineering community and a shining light of knowledge, skill and expertise. His straightforward no nonsense website is a treasure trove of information for any network engineer.