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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 en

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_Engineering_Body_of_Knowledge_(SEBoK) https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Guide_to_the_Systems_Engineer...

stewvsshark 5y ago
Any books you’d recommend on the subject?
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  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.
  - MadSudaca 5y ago
    Could you list the books you bought? Thanks!
    - beaconstudios 5y ago
      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.
      - MadSudaca 5y ago
        Awesome, thank you!
cassianoleal 5y ago
Funny how the term "systems engineer" is loaded. I though more along the lines of https://diveintosystems.org/ https://diveintosystems.org/
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  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".
  - cassianoleal 5y ago
    lol so true. Anything that does something is a system, be it hardware, software, biological, mechanic...

stewvsshark 5y ago

Any books you’d recommend on the subject?

beaconstudios 5y ago
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.
- MadSudaca 5y ago
  Could you list the books you bought? Thanks!
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    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.
    - MadSudaca 5y ago
      Awesome, thank you!

cassianoleal 5y ago

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

beaconstudios 5y ago
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".
- cassianoleal 5y ago
  lol so true. Anything that does something is a system, be it hardware, software, biological, mechanic...