Integration Engineer II Take Home Assessment

This is the repository for the System Initiatives Integration Engineer II take-home assessment. It is designed to verify:

• That you have some proficiency with programming, specifically typescript
• That you can read code and adapt it to your needs
• That you have familiarity with the cloud, and can deploy infrastructure
• That you can ramp up on new technology quickly and communicate what you've learned.

We use a take-home assessment so that you can have your most productive environment at hand. I am personally here to help. I fully expect that you will reach out to me on Discord (username: keeb) for questions or assistance. This is natural and core to the way that we work at System Initiative.

Spend no more than 4 hours on this assessment.

First

Get familiar with System Initiative. Sign up for an account, login, and join your workspace. There is a video that is presented that gives a tutorial of the product. Follow it.

If you do not have access to an AWS account: that is fine. Feel free to set your endpoint to http://localstack.keeb.dev in your AWS Credential. No other field needs to be filled out.

Next

Create a new asset: Doubler

The Doubler

1. Create a new change set Change Set 1
2. Click on the customize screen
3. Click on the + Create new Asset button, enter asset name Doubler
4. In the editor, create 2 attributes, 1 input attribute and and another which contains the computed value. Also, make sure it has an output socket which contains the computed value.
5. Change the category to Doubler
6. Click Regenerate Asset
7. Click the new function button and select attribute function. Set the output location to /root/computed
8. Add an input parameter value of type string
9. Click Edit Bindings and set the binding to /root/domain/input
10. Write a function that doubles the input value
11. Go back to the modeling screen and drag the new Doubler component onto the canvas
12. Enter a value in the input field to 8
13. Notice that the computed field of the asset is now 16

Expand the Asset

Take what you have learned and add a new attribute to the component tripled, and create the associated attribute/binding to triple the asssets input.

Presentation

Once you have completed the above and are ready to proceed, let us know. We will schedule a follow up presentation where we talk about your experience using System Initiative, look at the Doubler component you've built, and think about different ways to expand it.