System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale systems

Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by beaconstudios on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:58PM (#29720849)

I thought this was going to be about system engineering, but it's just about web scale distributed computing. Disappointing, because I'm digging into systems engineering at the moment and got a bunch of books on it for Christmas, plus thumbing through the SEBoK wiki [1] and associated content.

1: https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_Systems_Engineer...

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by cassianoleal on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:37AM (#29725174)

Funny how the term "systems engineer" is loaded. I though more along the lines of https://diveintosystems.org/

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by beaconstudios on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:19AM (#29725546)

Honestly I think it's a bit silly that such a broad term as "system" is often used to describe software and hardware administration. Reality is made of layered and networked systems so it feels odd to me to call somebody who manages Linux servers a "system administrator".

Might as well call it "thing manager".

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by cassianoleal on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @06:44PM (#29731621)

lol so true. Anything that does something is a system, be it hardware, software, biological, mechanic...

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by stewvsshark on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:05PM (#29720890)

Any books you’d recommend on the subject?

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by beaconstudios on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @09:08PM (#29720907)

Not yet, though I'd love to do recommend some if I could - as I say, I've only just started looking into it fairly recently!

If you're interested, drop me an email (in my bio) and I'll let you know, once I've read my new books, if they're any good.

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by MadSudaca on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @09:39AM (#29725184)

Could you list the books you bought? Thanks!

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by beaconstudios on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @10:09AM (#29725437)

Sure thing (though it was my lovely wife that bought them, not me!):

- Systems Engineering Demystified by Jon Holt

- Essential Architecture and Principles of Systems Engineering by C. E. Dickerson & Siyuan Ji

- System Design & Management: An Introduction to Systems Engineering by Bob Parkinson

On a somewhat related note I also got Difference & Repetition by Deleuze and Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead, but they're more philosophical than practical.

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Re:System Design Primer: Learn how to design large-scale sys... by MadSudaca on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:11PM (#29727703)

Awesome, thank you!

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