Book Cube: 2023, page 4
Book Cube publications from 2023, page 4: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Business
Game of business (Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide)
Game of business (Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide) Business is often seen as a serious business. The generation of ideas is subject to complex corporate rules. The authors of the book try to show that an alternative approach can work not only for creative people, but also for businessmen.)
- · #Management
How I Choose Which Book to Read Next
How I Choose Which Book to Read Next I get asked this question from time to time, and I always say it depends on the context and the current situation. For example, a couple of weeks ago, it flew by. news Cisco Acquires Splunk Company for 28 billion dollars. This is interesting news due to the fact that Cisco is a top company for the production of network devices and not only, and Splunk is one of the leaders in the market of observability platforms.
- · #Software
Scala in Tinkoff
Scala in Tinkoff Once I went to our development center in Yekaterinburg to talk with my colleagues, as well as to tell a report about Staff+ engineers. (first and continuation). There I talked a lot with the guys from my backend teams who write highly loaded and critical systems in scala. And now we have short videos on the YouTube channel about how we use Scala in Tinkoff, and in these videos I saw old friends:)
- · #BookCube
Some photos from the exit:)
A few photos from departure:)
- · #Management
Departure of CTO & CPO by Avito
Departure of CTO & CPO by Avito At the end of last week, I was at an away event. CTO and CPO club From Avito, which I found really interesting: A chic place was chosen, Six Senses Kaplankaya, which helped to switch the context of the participants - in this place you easily switched from the daily rhythm with constant meetings to communicate with other participants surrounded by insanely beautiful nature.
- · #Processes
Control, Audit, Reliability and Import Substitution in IT – Who You Became
Control, Audit, Reliability and Import Substitution in IT – Who You Became An interesting series came out the other day. podcast "Who You Became," in which Sasha Guzenko, my colleague and podcast host, chatted with another colleague of mine, Vitaly Myagkov, vice president and deputy director of the IT department. Vitaly in this episode told about
- · #ForKids
A Book of a Thousand and a Night
A Book of a Thousand and a Night I remember when I was a child, I was first read for the night fairy tales from an Arabic collection. 1001 And then I learned to read them myself and stuck in it. All the fairy tales were connected together by the fact that the Persian king Shahriyar, after his wife's betrayal, decided that all women were libertine, and then crooked He decided to sleep with a new girl every night and execute her in the morning.
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
Designing reliable systems - is the game worth the candle
Designing reliable systems - is the game worth the candle It was with this report that I spoke in mid-September at the Strike conference in Ulyanovsk, and then at the SmartDev conference. I did this talk to talk about designing robust systems, and I ended up trying to address the following questions:
- · #Comics
Emergency. A graphic novel about doctors, patients and the struggle for life (Les mille et une vies des urgences)
Emergency. A graphic novel about doctors, patients and the struggle for life (Les mille et une vies des urgences) Today I finished reading an interesting comic book about emergency doctors and their patients, which is made in the form of a diary of an intern named Batiste. The comic consists of hundreds of stories, ironic or serious, funny or sad, short or long, like the story of the Firebird that runs through the entire narrative.
- · #Writing
Shop No4 A course for those who dream of publishing a book.
Shop No4 A course for those who dream of publishing a book. I learned that reading books is good and writing them is even better.) So I bought myself course For aspiring authors, even though I don't get to the target audience -- I don't dream of publishing a book, I just plan on doing it:) Training will begin towards the end of March 2024 I will be writing a draft of one book. Really, I already have a plan. 2 I will have to choose which one I want to write first.
- · #Data
Data - The Land DevOps Forgot • Michael Nygard • YOW! 2023 (Data column)
Data - The Land DevOps Forgot • Michael Nygard • YOW! 2023 (Rubric Data ) Interesting. speech from Michael Nygard The author of "Release It!" (I told you about it. her)And now VP at Nubank. (Brazilian neobank)where he is responsible for the direction of data engineering. I wonder what Michael once did. popularize writing approach (architecture decision records). And in this talk, Michael talks about the concept of data mesh, but in an appendix to squawk tasks inside Nubank, where the old ETL/ELT process is no longer scalable.
- · #SelfDevelopment
List of materials about thinking and brain work
List of materials about thinking and brain work Continuing post On the neuroplasticity of the brain, I recommend reading other books and talks on the brain and thinking that I've talked about in this channel before. SelfDevelopment Brain PopularScience Thinking
- · #SelfDevelopment
Brain plasticity (The Brain That Changes Itself)
Brain plasticity (The Brain That Changes Itself) The other day I finished reading a book by Norman Doidge, a Canadian psychiatrist and author of books and articles. In this book, the author discusses the concept of neuroplasticity of the brain, where the brain can change under the influence of experience, as well as recover from damage and build new connections that to some extent compensate for the consequences of such damage.
- · #Conference
HighLoad Award + +
HighLoad Award + + Highload++ will be available for the second time this year. prizeIt celebrates the contribution of companies and people to the development of the IT community. Composition of laureates in 2018-2019 The year included the mastodons of our shop, whom most of us know by name. This year, Oleg Bunin decided to renew the tradition and choose a new batch of heroes. This time there is a main vote, which represents companies, projects and people who have done a lot to develop the community.
- · #Management
A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity
A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity I recently read an interesting article published in the summer. 2023 There were quite banal theses, but interesting conclusions:) Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green (two Google leads) We talked about the fact that “software developers are human after all” and therefore it is necessary to look at the questions of productivity of developers not just from a mechanistic position, but to approach it in a human way:) They covered “the impact of different engineering tools, infrastructure, processes, and best…
- · #Management
Announcement of the review white papers on the productivity of development
Announcement of the review white papers on the productivity of development In the past few days, I have spent many days on the road, so I managed to read three white papers, on which I am writing brief reviews. I decided to share this list in an announcement format with readers: 1. A Human-Centered Approach to Developer Productivity - white paper From the guys at Google about the human approach to assessing developer productivity.
- · #Engineering
Doubling Engineering Productivity at eBay Through DevOps • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022
Doubling Engineering Productivity at eBay Through DevOps • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022 Interesting. speech Randy Shoup VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Ebay, which is responsible for platform teams. Randy talks about how 2 During the year, the Ebay engineering team, which consists of 4K engineers, learned to work twice as efficiently. To summarize, there were no secret components to this transformation:
- · #Engineering
Public interview on troubleshooting for SRE engineers at the Devoops conference
Public interview on troubleshooting for SRE engineers at the Devoops conference A year ago, told About this kind of interview at the conference, and this year it's the turn conduct a public interview And show you what it looks like in practice. As a result, I did this interview at the Devoops conference and was assisted by my colleague, Salih Fakhrutdinov, Senior SRE at Tinkoff Origination Platform, who was interviewing.
- · #Software
Brain defragmentation. Building from the inside
Brain defragmentation. Building from the inside This book by Sergey Tarasov was published ten years ago and was devoted to the creation of software. I read it for the first time seven years ago, and I had the feeling that it was a standard story about how the grass used to be greener, the sun yellower, and the sky bluer. Over the weekend, I read the book again and realized that I didn’t think it was, but it also has a useful grain.
- · #ForKids
Minecraft: Mobiology (Minecraft: Mobestiary)
Minecraft: Mobiology (Minecraft: Mobestiary) My kids love minecraft, which I don't understand yet. And to talk to them about this game, I bought them a book on mob biology, shortened to Mobiology:) The book is written in the style of naturalist sketches (ala Charles Darwin)It travels through a vast world and records information about the habits, characteristics and character of creatures that consist of cubes.
- · #Career
How to develop if you are a Senior System Analyst
How to develop if you are a Senior System Analyst It's here. video with a recording of a talk at the Flow conference about the career tracks of system analysts, and a transcript is available long ago in my Blog TellMeAbout.Tech. The story was that once and system analysts grow to the leading and find themselves before the fork. And then I looked at different growth options - from typical to esoteric: Becoming a leader in the profession of analysts; Growth in the team in a cross-functional team; Transition to technical product manager;
- · #Conference
Yandex Scale 2023
Yandex Scale 2023 Tuesday. 26 I'll visit in September. conference from Yanadex about modern cloud, infrastructure, data and ML:) It's one of the few conferences I'll get to this year that I won't be speaking at, but I'll just be a listener without the extra workload of a talk. So if you're at a coffee shop, we can talk about random topics:)
- · #Software
We design reliable systems - is the game worth the candle
Report "Designing Reliable Systems" - Is the game worth the candle? Today I am. speaker at the SmartDev conference with the same name. I've already told you this report. 5 A few days ago in Ulyanovsk, but from the last talk I added a small part about the patterns of fault-tolerant systems, which can be seen in more detail in the cool report "Patterns of fault-tolerant architecture" of the guys from Yandex.
- · #Management
More Buzzwords Won't Help: The Long History of DevOps Failures • Andrew Clay Shafer • GOTO 2023
More Buzzwords Won't Help: The Long History of DevOps Failures • Andrew Clay Shafer • GOTO 2023 Interesting. speech Andrew Clay Shafer on processes and their optimization. Andrew doesn’t say much about tools, but rather discusses the concepts and history of these ideas. The statement is referred to
- · #CoA
Evolutionary architecture in practice
Evolutionary architecture in practice Today I decided to think about my speech Two years ago about evolutionary architecture. As systems evolve, there is often a time when further development requires a lot of effort in refactoring team processes and system architecture. I've been through this more than once, and I've collected a set of symptoms, root causes of problems, and working methods to solve them. So I decided to talk about evolutionary architecture at the Tinkoff Agile Conference. 2021which took place in October 2021 years.
- · #Sales
Autumn sale in the publishing house “Peter”
Autumn sale in the publishing house “Peter” At the publishing house. Peter. It's a discount sale. 40percent 50% on paper and electronic books, respectively. For discounts, you need to use the coupons "Paper Book" and "Electronic Book". I bought five books last year and I read one of them:) I haven’t picked up anything for this sale yet, but... you may find something interesting for yourself.
- · #Microservices
Lifting the Veil on Meta's Microservice Architecture: Analyses of Topology and Request Workflows
Lifting the Veil on Meta's Microservice Architecture: Analyses of Topology and Request Workflows In mid-July came out interesting article Microservice architecture from the company, making it the largest social network. The article was written by Darby Huye. (Tufts University, Meta), Yuri Shkuro (Meta) and Raja R. Sambasivan (Tufts University) And they focused on the underappreciated characteristics of microservice architecture that are important for building microservice tools and modeling microservice topologies.
- · #Interview
Cool interview with Andrei Styskin, Director at Amazon, ex-CEO Yandex. Search
Cool interview with Andrei Styskin, Director at Amazon, ex-CEO Yandex. Search In this video Dmitry Graz interviewed Andrei Styskin, in which they talked about the approach to management at Amazon and how it differed from Yandex. Andrei shared his impressions of the processes of hiring, onboarding, decision-making based on written culture. (paperwork). Finally, there was a topic about life in Los Angeles, where Andrew moved in February. 2023 years. How is life different from Moscow?
- · #SciFi
Rage. (Fury)
Rage. (Fury) This book by Henry Kuttner was one of my favorites as a child, as it was on the list of the few fantastic books in my parents' home library. There are other benefits to this book, for example. The main character is not a good or bad person. Rather, he is cut from contradictions and destined to accomplish a feat:) Watching his story is informative. It is quite interesting to describe the concept of the pupation of the human race within the framework of the accessible world and the rejection of expansion outside.
- · #ForKids
How does it work? (spring-line)
How does it work? (spring-line) A great book for answers to questions of little reasons that contain 200 interesting questions 4 Themes: nature, the human body, life around us and what was before. I read this book for my three and eight year old sons. (But the three-year-old can handle just a few questions, and then suggests you start flipping through the book.).
- · #Conference
Visit to Ulyanovsk and the conference Strike
Visit to Ulyanovsk and the conference Strike I like to go to different regional conferences, as it allows you to see different cities of Russia. For example, the conference Strike, which I spoke at yesterday, is being held in Ulyanovsk, where I came for the first time:) It is interesting that the conference is held in the USPU building. (Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University)And my talk was in the library, which fits very well into the channel.) Also near the university there is an embankment, which offers an excellent view of Kuibyshevskoe.
- · #Processes
Improving the flow of software development (Improving software flow)
Improving the flow of software development (Improving software flow) Appeared. record I've just given a talk in Kazan where I talk about how to design software effectively. I'm looking at the five ideals in The Unicorn Project. And I also talk about how we use it inside Tinkoff. The transcript of the report is in my blog, and the recommended materials are given below.
- · #Software
We design reliable systems - is the game worth the candle
Report "Designing Reliable Systems" - Is the game worth the candle? Today I am. speaker at the conference "Strike" with the report of the same name and therefore, according to tradition, I share a list of materials
- · #Architecture
Architecture Anti-patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles (Category Architecture)
Architecture Anti-patterns: Automatically Detectable Violations of Design Principles (Rubric Architecture) This article This is an interesting topic of architecture governance. In it, the authors describe their approaches for automatically finding architectural anti-patterns in large systems. The bottom line is that files that are subject to changes and errors rarely live alone in such systems – they are usually architecturally connected and these connections display architectural problems that lead to the spread of error exposure.
- · #DistributedSystems
Review of the white paper "Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications"
Review of the white paper "Deployment Archetypes for Cloud Applications" This article 2021 by Anna Berenberg and Brad Calder of Google 50 pages are devoted to building reliable applications by cleverly using fault domains to provide the necessary availability for the application, which can be different for different types of applications (business-critical applications, line-of-business applications, internal applications). By title, it seems that this article refers exclusively to applications that unfold in the cloud.
- · #Management
The Engineering Executive's role in hiring by Will Larson
The Engineering Executive's role in hiring by Will Larson Will Larson has an interesting newsletter in which he raises important topics. And in late August, he wrote a post about how conditional CTOs and VPs of Engineering can participate in hiring. Article It turned out to be big because it's an unedited version of a chapter from Wll's new book.The Engineering Executive’s Primer" (O'Reilly has early access to this book, which you can read while writing.).
- · #Software
A Model-based, Quality Attribute-guided Architecture Re-Design Process at Google
A Model-based, Quality Attribute-guided Architecture Re-Design Process at Google One of my areas of interest is designing complex systems and building architectural processes. A few months ago, I found this article from the guys at Google that came out. 2023 year. In this article, the authors (Qin Jia, Yuanfang Cai, Onur Çakmak) The structured process of redesigning a large system (Monarch) using quality attribute scenarios (quality attribute scenario), as well as using system modeling using UML.
- · #Architect
We design reliable systems - is the game worth the candle
We design reliable systems - is the game worth the candle Perform. 21 September at the Sber Conference SmartDev A report on the design of reliable systems. In my speech, I will try to ask and answer the following questions: Do we need to think about the reliability of our system and what does it depend on? How to assess the reliability of the existing system? Why is reliability difficult to add to an existing system? What are the principles for designing reliable systems? How to build processes to achieve reliability?
- · #Thinking
Alexey Savvateev Theory of Games Around Us
Alexey Savvateev Theory of Games Around Us Excellent. speech from Alexey Savvateev about the theory of games. Alexei always tells a great story, and here he gave many examples of real situations, which he considered from the point of view of game theory. The models turned out really interesting, and the format and presentation of the material are very good. I especially liked the way the models worked:
- · #SRE
Resilience as an architectural characteristic (Continuous Architecture in Practice)
Resilience as an architectural characteristic (Continuous Architecture in Practice) I have mentioned several times the book "Continuous Architecture in Practice" as a worthwhile work on architecture. (posts: 1 and 2). Today I decided to share a brief sammmari on how authors approach the sustainability and reliability of systems. First, authors are defined with terminology.
- · #BookCube
A number of awards in the mobile app Tinkoff
A number of awards in the mobile app Tinkoff My colleagues made another cool toy in the mobile app Tinkoff, which is called "Several Awards" It's a three-in-a-row game. The bottom line is that there are figures of different shapes and colors and they need to be changed in places to collect at least three identical elements in a row horizontally or vertically. For this, the player receives points, a large number of which increases the chance of winning prizes, such as additional cashback, virtual promotions, discounts from partners or cash prizes.
- · #BookCube
Covers of the old edition:) I had just translated the red version with a headhunter preface:)
Covers of the old edition:) I had just translated the red version with a headhunter preface:)
- · #Management
Manager's Encyclopedia. Algorithms of effective operation 3rd edition (Fast Thinking Manager's Manual)
Manager's Encyclopedia. Algorithms of effective operation 3rd edition (Fast Thinking Manager's Manual) Recently, I bought a stack of new books and there was a book by Alpina Publisher called "The Publisher."Manager's Encyclopedia" When I opened it, I felt a sense of déjà vu – I had read this content a long time ago. I began to remember and realized that the new book was the fifth edition, and I was in a distant place.
- · #Comics
Comics "Too Short Spoon" and "The Relationship of All Kings" based on the works of Douglas Adams "The Holistic Detective Agency of Dirk Gently"
Comics "Too Short Spoon" and "The Relationship of All Kings" based on the works of Douglas Adams "The Holistic Detective Agency of Dirk Gently" When I bought these comics, I fell for the fact that the comic was based on the works of Douglas Adams, who wrote a cool science fiction novel, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was a lot of humor and irony:) I didn't know anything about a holistic agency, but I thought it would be fun.
- · #Conference
Practical ML Conf 2023
Practical ML Conf 2023 Suddenly this morning, I stumbled across a Youtube stream of a Yandex ML conference. Here are the links
- · #Chaos
Practical Magic: The Resilience Potion & Security Chaos Engineering • Kelly Shortridge • GOTO 2023
Practical Magic: The Resilience Potion & Security Chaos Engineering • Kelly Shortridge • GOTO 2023 Interesting. speech Kelly Shortridge, Senior Principal at Fastly, about Security Chaos Engineering eponymous. The author himself describes the 5 sustainability (resilience) systems:
- · #RnD
Like RnD. (Research and Development) Appears in large IT companies
Like RnD. (Research and Development) Appears in large IT companies On TeamLead Conf + + 2023 I'm going to talk to you about RnD, which I've already done. told On our open day in Yerevan, but the record was not kept.
- · #Career
Read more about Flow: How to Develop When You’re a Senior System Analyst
Read more about Flow: How to Develop When You’re a Senior System Analyst A transcript of the report is now available in my blog. But since I have a very extensive report and I mention many points about which I told individual reports, I attach links to these materials.
- · #Engineering
Public interview on troubleshooting for SRE engineers on Devoops
Public interview on troubleshooting for SRE engineers on Devoops Today I have two talks at different conferences. It will be tonight. public interview by troubleshooting on Devoops and in the afternoon I'll talk about Development of senior analysts Flow. I didn’t originally plan to do that, but I had to move the Flow performance online too:) If you go back to the interview on Devoops, it is about what one of the interviews for SRE engineers looks like. And it looks like an incident where the scenario is something like this: 1.
- · #Data
Using Semantic Metadata to Create an Automated Microservice Data Mesh • Marty Pitt • YOW! 2022
Using Semantic Metadata to Create an Automated Microservice Data Mesh • Marty Pitt • YOW! 2022 Weird performance from Marty Pitt creator OrbitalAutomated platform for integration and language taxi to describe the semantics of data. First, the author talked about what data mesh is and why it is needed. Then I went to semantic metadata using the taxi language, and I immediately remembered the semantic web. RDF triplets tongue SPARQL.