Winter Warmers

AI

  • AI World Clocks - the wonky world of AI
  • A Network Engineer’s Guide to Understanding the Model Context Protocol for AI Integration – networkphil
  • Watch - Transformers - how LLMs work - explained visually on YouTube - 27 mins
  • Watch - Every AI Job Explained in 13 Minutes - 2025 Career Guide on YouTube - 13 mins

‘My’! AI Creations

  • AI Industry Roles: Skills and Activities - a NotebookLLM ‘podcast’ from sources I provided, the results are outstanding
  • A couple of Google Gemini Canvas html code creations. Some tweaking needed but the heavy lifting and prototyping by Gemini Canvas made creation very easy. The first page I created was from this prompt “create a professional polished one page info-graphic using the data below” with some data I had complied: EV Charging Summary. Apart from the funny Frankenstein logos it did a great job - I used this SVG Icon site to get some proper icons
  • The second page created was this simple Photo Gallery - this took a bit more work persuading Gemini to get the format right, but that is all very easy in reality

Automation

  • The Role of Python in Network Automation - Practical Scripts for Everyday Tasks — Layer8Packet
  • Elementary, My Dear Network
  • Juniper Automation Github

Certification and Careers

Cisco

  • Watch - Let’s Talk: Cisco Modeling Labs on YouTube - 7 mins

Cloud

  • Netflix Architecture - A Deep Dive into Seamless Global Streaming
  • Watch - Looking to Learn Cloud Networking? Basics of AWS Networks for Network Engineers on YouTube - 12 mins
  • 10 Open-Source Tools for Optimizing Cloud Expenses - Semaphore

Fundamentals

IPv6

Juniper

Labs

Linux

Open Source

  • I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated? - Icon Solutions

Programmability

Service Provider

Tools and Testing

And Finally