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So, You Want to be a Systems Engineer

Systems Engineering (also known as Infrastructure Engineering, Operations Engineering, or DevOps) is a challenging but rewarding career path. Because Systems Engineering draws from a wide variety of smaller topics, it can be hard to know where to start and in what order to begin. This resource is intended to give you a sketch of some of the learning-paths that that can lead you to a career in Systems Engineering.

What do I need to know?

To start, let's examine a high-level list of topics that established systems engineers should have knowledge of. In each of these topics, the level of depth required to get started as a systems engineer may vary, but it's good to have a general breadth of knowledge on all of these topics.

These lists are not exhaustive, rather a good starting point to gain general knowledge.

@erikyuzwa
erikyuzwa / wordpress-6-2-2-docker-compose.yml
Last active May 5, 2024 00:12
Wordpress 6.2.2 Docker Compose for Local Development
# create a local .env file with the following 4 properties:
#
# MYSQL_DATABASE=<something>
# MYSQL_USER=<something>
# MYSQL_PASSWORD=<something>
# MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=<something>
#
# Note: I have had a LOT of issues working with anything newer then Docker Desktop v4.26.1
# If you're on something newer, then double check against this release.
#
@jankkhvej
jankkhvej / shellcommand.sh
Created August 1, 2011 06:52 — forked from anonymous/shellcommand.sh
script to parse PHP short open tags and convert ones to normal
find project/dir/ -type f -iname "*.php" -exec php -d short_open_tag=On the_script.php {} \;
@mattiasgustavsson
mattiasgustavsson / main.c
Created March 5, 2024 19:18
Minimal code example for creating a window to plot pixels to
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <windows.h>
#pragma comment( lib, "user32.lib" )
#pragma comment( lib, "gdi32.lib" )
#define SCRW 640
#define SCRH 480
@panquetofobia
panquetofobia / shortags_fixer.php
Created March 24, 2010 19:49
PHP short open tags fixer
<?php
/**
* Short Open Tags fixer.
*
* Usage:
* $ php -d short_open_tag=On -f shortags_fixer.php path/to/file.php
* $ for i in $(find ./ -iname "*.phtml"); do php -d short_open_tag=On -f shortags_fixer.php $i > ~/fixed.txt && cat ~/fixed.txt > $i; done
*/
function fix($file)
@wholroyd
wholroyd / preparations.md
Last active May 4, 2024 23:56
Getting Minikube on WSL2 Ubuntu working

Windows Preparation

  1. Ensure hypervisor functionality is enabled in BIOS.

    • I know it sounds stupid, but if you already have it enabled, disable it, restart the machine, and enable it again.
    • Otherwise you will hit microsoft/WSL#5363
  2. Launch a PowerShell prompt in Administrator mode [Win+X > Windows PowerShell (Admin)]

dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux /all /norestart
@loziju
loziju / macosx-configure-postfix-as-relay.md
Last active May 4, 2024 23:51
Configure postfix as relay for OS X
@choco-bot
choco-bot / Install.txt
Created May 4, 2024 22:59
polaris v4.2.0 - Failed - Package Tests Results
==> default: Running provisioner: shell...
[ERROR] An error occurred in the underlying SSH library that Vagrant uses.
[ERROR] The error message is shown below. In many cases, errors from this
[ERROR] library are caused by ssh-agent issues. Try disabling your SSH
[ERROR] agent or removing some keys and try again.
[ERROR] If the problem persists, please report a bug to the net-ssh project.
[ERROR] timeout during server version negotiating
@mark05e
mark05e / Remove-HPbloatware.ps1
Last active May 4, 2024 23:40
Remove HP bloatware
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