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PACKET CAPTURE / Week of February 2-6
Summerset Banks
February 06, 2026
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🎥 New to video! Starting with this week’s episode you can now watch Ned Bellavance, Kyler Middleton and their fabulous guests as they discuss all things DevOps on the Day Two DevOps podcast on YouTube. Check this one out in the links below!
JOB ALERTS
Current postings from the Packet Pushers Slack Group
Senior Network Reliability & Automation Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery
Network Engineer at Tris Pharma Inc.
Principal, Software Engineer at Wal-mart
Senior Network Engineer at UK Research and Innovation, Oxfordshire, UK
Sr. Network Engineer Campus Switching & Data Center at Laketec Communications
NEW PODCASTS
 | EP 560 | FEBRUARY 02, 2026Microsoft Doubles Down on Custom AI Chip; CrowdStrike Brandishes Big Bucks for Browser SecurityToday on Network Break: Red Alerts for HPE Juniper and SolarWinds. Microsoft debuts its second-generation AI inferencing chip, Mplify unveils a Carrier Ethernet certification for AI, Google takes down a residential proxy network, and more!| LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 070 | FEBRUARY 03, 2026Better Understand Your Network Performance with NetViewsEvery Wi-fi or network professional occasionally struggles with understanding what their endpoints are experiencing. Keith sits down with Bill Bushong, creator of NetViews, a macOS application originally called PingStalker. In this conversation they discuss why he built NetViews, the technical details on how it works, its network monitoring capabilities, and how Wi-Fi professionals can use it to better understand the gap between what the network is doing and what users are experiencing. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 095 | FEBRUARY 03, 2026OT and ICS - Where Digital and Physical Risks MeetOperation Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are under increasing attack. Learn about the threats, strategies for harmonizing IT and OT infosec, and incident response plans with expert Sam Van Ryder. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 293 | FEBRUARY 04, 2026Haskell in the Modern DayNed and Kyler sit down with Tikhon Jelvis to discuss Haskell and other niche programming languages and the benefits they can offer such as complex domain modeling and concurrent applications. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 048 | FEBRUARY 05, 2026QoS FundamentalsToday is all about Quality of Service (QoS) fundamentals. Ethan and Holly decode the acronyms, cover fundamentals, identify major tool groups, and reveal the surprising truth about network drops. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 193 | FEBRUARY 05, 2026IPv6 Basics - TroubleshootingEd, Nick, and Tom walk through the essentials of IPv6 troubleshooting that can trip up even experienced network engineers. They break down why blocking all ICMP will instantly break your v6 network and why understanding multicast is critical to scalable IPv6. | LISTEN NOW |
 | EP 813 | FEBRUARY 06, 2026What Should Networkers Know About Software Development (and Vice Versa)?Chris Rapier and Nick Buraglio join our hosts to discuss what network engineers should know about software development, and what software developers should know about networking.| LISTEN NOW |
NEW VIDEO
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DREW CONRY-MURRAY | FEBRUARY 3, 2026
Startup Radar: FluidCloud Aims to Unlock Public Cloud Lock-In
In the early days of public cloud, one supposed benefit was the ability to move workloads from one provider to another. Unlike your on-prem infrastructure, public cloud was a hotel, not a home. If a competitor rolled out a cool new service, or offered a better price, or performed better, you could pack your suitcase and move locations.
That was the theory. These days, public clouds have become a second residence. You could move, but most people don’t.
FluidCloud wants to bring back the concept of cloud as hotel. The startup’s pitch is straightforward: it’s a cloud-cloning platform that works with AWS, Azure, GCP, Vultr, OVH, and VMware. | READ NOW