Nerd-Skills.md

Nerd Skills

• AWS
  • Security, Identity, and Compliance
    • IAM
    • IAM Identity Center
    • Certificate Manger (ACM)
    • GuardDuty
    • Inspector
    • WAF
    • Shield
    • Security Hub
    • Secrets Manager
    • Key Management Service (KMS)
  • Networking & Content Delivery
    • VPC
    • Route53
    • CloudFront
    • API Gateway
  • Compute
    • EC2
    • ELB
    • Lambda
  • Containers
    • ECS
    • EKS
    • ECR
    • App Runner
  • Storage
    • S3
    • Glacier
    • EBS
    • EFS
  • Database
    • RDS
    • DynamoDB
    • ElastiCache
    • MemoryDB for Redis
  • Application Integration
    • SQS
    • SNS
    • AWS EventBridge
    • Step Functions
    • AWS Organizations
    • Control Tower
    • Auto Scaling
    • CloudWatch
    • CloudTrail
    • Systems Manager
    • AWS Config
    • Trusted Advisor
    • Well-Architected Tool
    • AWS Health Dashboard
    • Resource Groups & Tag Editor
    • Billing and Cost Management
  • Analytics
    • RedShift
    • EMR
    • Athena
    • Glue
    • Kinesis
    • MSK
  • Machine Learning/AI
    • SageMaker AI
    • Bedrock
    • Lex
    • Kendra
    • Comprehend
    • Transcribe
    • Tranlate
    • Polly
    • Rekognition
• AI
  • Machine Learning
    • Supervised Learning
    • Unsupervised Learning
    • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Large Language Models
• Infrastructure
  • Ubuntu
  • Kubernetes, Containers
  • CIDR, Networking Services (DNS)
  • Terraform, Ansible
  • GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Software
  • Python
    • Data Analysis using Python
    • AI Engineering using Python
    • HTTP Services using Python
    • CUDA Programming using Python
  • Rust
    • System Software using Rust
    • CLI Utilities using Rust
• Command-Line Tinkerer
  • deep-dive into these...
    • aws
    • jq
    • curl, http
    • fzf
    • rg
  • terminal hacks
    • warp (or iterm2)
    • oh-my-zsh
      • starship.toml
    • ssh
      • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C [email protected] -f id_myidentity (Note: RSA is not the most secure and fast performing algorithm these days)
    • tmux
    • gpg
      • Install public gpg key: wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
      • Verify fingerprint: gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg --fingerprint
  • package management
    • brew
    • dpkg
      • dpkg --print-architecture
    • apt or apt-get
      • apt-cache (apt-cache search or apt-cache show)
      • /usr/share/keyrings (contains pgp keys). So does /etc/apt/keyrings. Not sure when to use which. Docker use the latter, while Hashicorp Vault and Docker used the former
      • /etc/apt/sources.list.d (contains apt repository details)
    • tar
      • tar -xf...
    • mktemp
  • system
    • sudo adduser
    • sudo groupadd docker
    • sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
      • sudo exec -l $USER # for group membership to take effect immediately
    • id $USER (to find all groups a user belongs to)
    • sudo visudo
    • cpuinfo
    • free
    • service
    • systemctl
    • lsb_release
      • cat /etc/os-release
    • uname
  • networking
    • ip
    • dig
  • performance
    • iostat
    • stress
    • top
    • trace
    • wrk
  • security
    • vault
  • text wrangling
    • tee
    • xargs
    • fzf
    • ripgrep
    • fd-find
    • batcat (or bat)
  • http wrangling
    • jq
    • ijq (interactive jq)
    • jp (jmespath on cli)
    • jsoncrack (web app)
    • curl
    • http
  • devops
    • code
    • neovim
      • iterm2 based copy-paste did not work
      • set relativenumber number signcolumn=yes
    • git
      • git aliases for git-fu commands (sync, etc.)
    • gh
    • jf
    • make
  • services/platforms
    • containers/container orchestrators
      • podman
      • kubectl
      • kubectx
      • stern
      • arkade or helm
      • minikube or k3s or k3d
    • proxies
      • apache
      • nginx
      • haproxy
      • pingora (cloudflare)
      • caddy (for https dev/test locally)
        • mkcert (for https dev/test locally)
    • static site
      • hugo
      • tailwindcss