Networking

Git in Practice for network engineers featured image with terminal commands and branch diagram showing the feature branch, merge, and pull request workflow

Automation · Feb 13, 2026

Git in Practice - Version Control For Network Engineers

Time to get practical. Set up Git, version control your network configs, learn branching and merging the hard way (by breaking things), and open your first pull request on GitHub.

Dan Jones

Networking · Feb 9, 2026

Git Fundamentals - For Network Engineers

As network engineers, we've been solving version control problems badly for years, dated backup files, manual comparisons, config files named final_v2_WORKING.txt. Git exists because developers hit this wall decades ago. It's time we caught up.

Dan Jones

ELI5 · Sep 2, 2025

What are Reverse Proxies?

Discover how a reverse proxy acts like a helpful doorman for your servers by improving security, handling traffic, off‑loading encryption, and making your site more resilient.

Dan Jones

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Series · Aug 25, 2025

Routing & Connectivity in AWS, Part 1 - A Guide for Network Engineers

Learn about routing and connectivity in AWS as we talk about VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, VPC Endpoints and AWS PrivateLink. Part of our "Networking in AWS for Network Engineers Course".

Dan Jones

Image for our ELI5 series. This image states "ELI5 - What is MTPCP". MPTCP being Multipath TCP

ELI5 · Jul 29, 2025

What is Multipath TCP (MPTCP)?

Discover how Multipath TCP lets a single connection use multiple network paths at once, increasing speed and resilience for mobile devices, data‑centres and the future Internet.

Dan Jones

ELI5 · Jul 26, 2025

What is SLAAC (IPv6)?

Discover how SLAAC lets devices self‑assign global addresses, removes DHCP overhead, preserves end‑to‑end connectivity, and scales effortlessly for home, enterprise, and IoT networks.

Dan Jones

An image of a retro style lightning bolt with the acronym TLDR on the left and Juniper on the right.

Networking · Jul 12, 2025

Juniper Networks Cheatsheet - General Commands

We've put together a list and a pdf cheatsheet of the most commonly used Juniper Networks commands as a reference for all.

Dan Jones

Networking · Jul 10, 2025

What is NAT?

Learn how Network Address Translation (NAT) works - lets home networks and data centres share one public IPv4 address, hides private hosts and enables port forwarding for servers.