Book Cube: 2023, page 6
Book Cube publications from 2023, page 6: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Processes
Improving the flow of software development
Improving the flow of software development With this theme I opened our festival in Kazan, which was held 5 August. The point was to briefly talk about the development of software with 5 Viewpoints: architecture, processes, engineering practices, company culture and focus on customer and results. Now I'm wrote down Report in the form of an article on your blog. And in a couple of weeks there will be a video of this performance. Plus, a little earlier. laying Recommended materials that went as recommended sources for study.
- · #ForKids
Grandma told me to bow down and tell her she's sorry.
Grandma told me to bow down and tell her she's sorry. I read this book a couple of years ago by Frederick Buckman, who wrote another book.What my son needs to know about the world.". The book about the grandmother is written in a different style - a combination of fairy tale and reality. Thank you to my wife for recommending this book. I put off reading it for a long time, but when I started, I read it in one breath.
- · #Chess
The Romance of Artificial Intelligence
The Romance of Artificial Intelligence Summer. 5 I read an interesting book back then.The Romance of Artificial Intelligence"by the authorship of the Flood, which came out in the distant 2016 year. I loved this book, which left more questions than answers.) And one of the main thoughts that went through the whole book was the idea that there was a 2 Question about AI: 1. What is intelligence and how to create a system that is at least equivalent to a person, and maybe even superior to him. 2.
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
How to Reverse Software Entropy • Saleem Siddiqui • GOTO 2023
How to Reverse Software Entropy • Saleem Siddiqui • GOTO 2023 Interesting. speech It's about software development and how it relates to physics, or rather the concept of entropy and its growth. For entropy, the author uses a definition from Saleem Siddiqui: A composite mesure of disorder that subsumes qualitative and quantitative measures The author talks a lot about how to understand entropy qualitatively, and then switches to quantitative metrics and notes the following:
- · #ForKids
What my son needs to know about the world.
What my son needs to know about the world. This book by Frederick Buckman is written in an ironic style and consists of a series of individual essays that tell about fatherhood and growing up to his young son, who will also grow up sometime in the future:) The humor and depth of the essay can be seen even in their titles: What do you need to know about toilet lights?
- · #Comics
Four days in Angoulem
Four days in Angoulem This Tamri Nizharadze comic book is dedicated to the International Comics Festival in Angoulem, which takes place with the 1974 Years in France. This festival takes place in January and lasts. 4 Days during which the city is filled with writers and comic book fans who can find each other there:) This comic book is made in the style of the diary of Tamri Nizharadze, who visited the festival. 2018 She told me about how it was, but not just posts in social networks, but in a comic book format.
- · #Processes
Improving software flow
Improving software flow I am opening today in Kazan our IT festival with the above report, and I publish the materials here.
- · #Devops
Review of the book "Accelerate" (part III)
Review of the book "Accelerate" (part III) In this article I will continue to review the classic book, Accerate, which managers love for its clear advice on developing capabilities to improve organizational effectiveness. In this article, we will talk about management and leadership practices.
- · #Conference
Charity IT Fest in Kazan
Charity IT Fest in Kazan Today I will fly with my wife to Kazan, where tomorrow I will open the festival with my report on improving the flow of software development. And then at the confe I will participate in the format of the Code of Architecrture book club together with Vova Chistyakov and Salikh Fakhrutdinov in the analysis of the white paper from Google. «Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg». This article describes the cluster management system that Google uses to manage its workloads. (I wonder if Google has any more.
- · #Devops
Review of the book "Accelerate" (part II)
Review of the book "Accelerate" (part II) In this article I will continue to review the classic book, Accerate, which managers love for its clear advice on developing capabilities to improve organizational effectiveness. Last time. article We talked about
- · #PublicSpeaking
Corporate presentation. How to sell an idea for 10 slide
Corporate presentation. How to sell an idea for 10 slide I have a public performance on my nose this Saturday, so today I decided to recall a book on presentations. However, I remembered the book is quite narrow-themed - about corporate presentations. And the book of Dmitry Lazarev is quite good. Some chapters are even interesting to read. But there are a few things that cut your eyes: 1. page 124 the statement of the system that it is not more but not less than the sum of its components (A conceptual misunderstanding of what a system is) 2.
- · #Devops
Review of the book "Accelerate" (part I)
Review of the book "Accelerate" (part I) This classic book is quite popular and is often referred to. The fact is that this book provides sharp conclusions about the relationship of processes and practices within the organization and its effectiveness, and these are the issues that are of interest to management. Unlike many other books here, the claims are backed up by systematic research, or rather, it is based on DevOps Reports. 4 yearly 2014 along 2017 year. These reports can be viewed on the pages.
- · #Culture
The study of information flow: A personal journey
The study of information flow: A personal journey Interesting. article 2014 Ron Westrum, who invented the typology of organizational cultures (pathological, bureaucratic, generative)The one I was talking about. earlier.
- · #Kubernetes
CoA - Recap of "Kubernetes Patterns" (2 edition)"
CoA - Recap of "Kubernetes Patterns" (2 edition)" This July at our Code of Architecture book club, we discussed a book on Kubernetes usage patterns, which we reviewed in four issues. In the following link article I wanted to share all the materials and remind you of the summary of what we discussed. If you like the review, you can download the free version. ebook from RedHat and compare the content of the second edition with the first review previous edition
- · #Comics
Moby Dick - graphic novel
Moby Dick - graphic novel In this comic, Dmitry Ushakov briefly recounted the story of Ahab and the white whale Moby Dick, about which Herman Melville wrote a classic book. The images in the book are made in the style of Sergio Toppi and are very interesting to consider, but the story itself has turned from monotonous and viscous into a kind of action, in which the focus is on the main story of hunting a white whale.
- · #Kubernetes
The fourth edition of Code of Architecture by Kubernetes Patterns (2 edition)"
The fourth edition of Code of Architecture by Kubernetes Patterns (2 edition)" Tonight, 18:00 Moscow We’ll finish the K8s book and focus on security patterns and advanced patterns that didn’t fit into any of the previous categories described in the book. For example, we'll discuss What are the tools in K8s to limit network traffic and access?
- · #AI
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis Interesting. interview Demisa Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, with Nilay Patel as part of Verge's Decoder podcast, which was given 3 Weeks ago in early July.
- · #Culture
Images from Ron Westrum's article "A typology of organizational cultures," which I covered in a previous post.
Images from Ron Westrum's article "A typology of organizational cultures" that I described in past post. Culture Management Leadership SRE Software Processes Engineering Thinking
- · #Culture
A typology of organisational cultures
A typology of organisational cultures Ron Westrum in 2004 I wrote an interesting year. article About the typology of organizational cultures in the medical journal Qual Saf Health Care. This article is referenced by the authors of Accelerate when they talk about "Westrum organizational culture." So I decided to read the original article and make up my mind. At the beginning of the article, the author says that his typology of organizational cultures is based on the style of information processing in medical units.
- · #DataScience
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? I finished reading Stephen Wolfram’s book yesterday, which is devoted to a review of how ChatGPT works. The book came out in March of this year, and besides it, Stephen has 3-hourly streamingYou can listen to and see the same story from the author. By the way, I was interested in Stephen's opinion on LLM. (large language model)Because he is the developer of the Mathematica computer algebra system and WolframAlpha knowledge extraction system, the principle of which is very different from ChatGPT.
- · #Chess
Chess & Jazz Festival
Chess & Jazz Festival Today and tomorrow in the garden "Hermitage" will be held musical and chess Chess & Jazz. This is the fourth time this year, but it will be my first time. The festival will feature different musical groups, but I am certainly attracted by the opportunity to watch chess activities: Chess Village, in which there will be a solution of chess problems and a session of simultaneous play
- · #History
Fifth Beatle. The story of Brian Epstein (The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story Expanded Edition)
Fifth Beatle. The story of Brian Epstein (The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story Expanded Edition) This beautiful graphic novel tells the story of a man who helped make history in the Liverpool Four, but himself remained largely behind the scenes. Brian Epstein was the manager of the band and did everything to get their first contract with a sound label, hit TV screens, broke to the top of the charts and began to tour around the world. And it all started with the fact that Brian got into the basement club "Cave" for a concert of beginning musicians.
- · #SelfDevelopment
There are no difficult negotiations.
There are no difficult negotiations. I recently read an interesting book by Oleg Emikh and Alexei Rybkin about negotiations, in which all the titles of the chapters are formulated in the form of burning questions, the answers to which are given inside the chapter. Finally, I decided to write. briefTo get the most out of the book. The book consists of 12 chapters and two applications with a checklist with questions to himself about preparation for the speech and an algorithm for collecting information about the opponent.
- · #Conference
IT Picnic
IT Picnic 2 In September in the Kolomna Park will be music festivalIt was organized by Tinkoff, Codefest and Mill. Within the framework of the festival, there will be a lecture hall "Architecture, Reliability and Quality", on the program committee of which I am a member, helping to select reports. There will be. 6 Interesting reports from top companies on the stated topics. Register for the festival and come to our lecture hall, where I will also host this lecture part of the time:)
- · #Comics
Alice in Sussex. (Alice in Sussex)
Alice in Sussex. (Alice in Sussex) This is an absurd comic book in the form of a hybrid parody of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Frankenstein in Sussex by Hans Artmann, Candida by Voltaire and Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The comic is minimalistic, the story is told with fun, but if you have not read the works that the author mixes, then it seems that you do not capture the entire absurdity of the situation:) Here is a cool review of this comic from Maxim Granko, but here here You can buy this comic at a discount.
- · #History
Volkswagen beetle. Adventures of the legendary brand in America (Getting the Bugs Out: The Rise, Fall, and Comeback of Volkswagen in America)
Volkswagen beetle. Adventures of the legendary brand in America (Getting the Bugs Out: The Rise, Fall, and Comeback of Volkswagen in America) This is a fun book with a funny story I’ve read for years. 7 back. The book has a number of advantages:
- · #Podcast
STO Talks about the Structure, Delivery Management and Team Health Metrics
STO Talks about the Structure, Delivery Management and Team Health Metrics A couple of days ago, I posted a link to a podcast. 503We discussed reliability in terms of design. And today I decided to recall the podcast Pavel Pritchin "Conversations CTO", in which we a couple of years ago. debate Delivery management topics, team structure changes, and development processes. Since then, my team has grown several times over, and some of the things I mention have become the de facto standard at the company level. I wonder what this is.
- · #CoA
Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System
Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System As part of our study of Distributed Systems at the Code of Architecture book club, we talked about security issues and briefly discussed authorization. At the time, it seemed to us that the authors of the book, Tanenbaum and van Steen, had missed a rather important model called ReBAC. (Relationship-Based Access Control). The popularity of this model came after Google 2019 Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System.
- · #ForKids
Lama in kindergarten without mom (Llama llama misses Mama)
Lama in kindergarten without mom (Llama llama misses Mama) A funny book from Anna Dudney, which turned out to be a topic for me yesterday. In this book, baby Lama goes to kindergarten and misses her mother. And it's very similar to the situation at my house, which should be called "Mother Lama in the Camp Without Baby Lama." My youngest son stayed with me for a week, and our mother left with a medium to camp for a week, where she plays the role of counselor for the girls' squad.
- · #SystemDesign
Public System Design Interview at C++ Russia Conference 2023
Public System Design Interview at C++ Russia Conference 2023 At the C++ Russia conference in May 2023 I did a public interview on system design, recording available here. I've done this type of interview before.
- · #Comics
holicomix 1
holicomix 1 This is the first Khulinovella from Alexei Markov, on the blog.holinomicsWhich I signed long enough. I read this comic book yesterday on the way home and never smiled while reading it - the comic was really funny, and in some ways quite deep:) The comic book is mainly about the start of a career, and it ends with some mysticism.
- · #SRE
503 Podcast - System Design in terms of reliability
503 Podcast - System Design in terms of reliability A few months ago, I participated in podcast Andrey Dmitriev from JUG Ru Group, where we talked about fault tolerance and reliability in terms of software design. We talked for about an hour and discussed whether before writing the code of the system to understand that it is not reliable enough? To answer this question, you need to understand what good “design” is the essence of reliability. This is what we discussed on this podcast:) I have recommended the following additional sources of information.
- · #Kubernetes
Code of Architecture: Kubernetes Patterns (2 edition)"
Code of Architecture: Kubernetes Patterns (2 edition)" Tonight, 18:00 Moscow We will continue to discuss the pattern book and focus on structural patterns and configuration patterns. We will talk about the organization of containers within Pods, as well as discuss whether to mix the configuration of the system with its source code, and what approaches to work with configurations provides k8s. Let's take a closer look. What life cycle for initialization tasks does k8s provide? How to expand the functionality of an existing container without changing it.
- · #Data
Data Pipelines Pocket Reference
Data Pipelines Pocket Reference On the way from Novosibirsk to Moscow, I read a simple book about building data conveyors for data engineers. I appreciated the brevity and practicality of the book, and the fact that James Densmore, the author of the book, has extensive hands-on experience building data infrastructure, which is what HubSpot did. In the end, I wrote brief This book is on his blog.
- · #Patterns
2. The Patterns - and here are the patterns for solving standard problems from the areas discussed in the first part
2. The Patterns - and here are the patterns for solving standard problems from the areas discussed in the first part Anyway, a book for 2002 The year was just a fire - she talked about approaches to design and solving typical problems. The Martin Fowler Signature series has also produced other books that explore the subject. Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns (Templates for integration of corporate applications)"that I mean." told earlier.
- · #BookCube
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Corporate application templates)
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Corporate application templates) A classic early-century book (2002 year) From Martin Fowler, which is worth reading today:) She came through. 8 after-bookDesign Patterns" and generalized the pattern approach to the architecture level of entire applications. The book on corporate application patterns consists of two parts: the narratives and the patterns.
- · #BookCube
Book Club "Siberia on the Pages"
Book Club "Siberia on the Pages" I mean books. Today I was walking in the center of Novosibirsk and came across a tram in front of the opera building. This tram was stationed and served as a haven for a book club, which presented books about Siberia from local publishers. The place was cozy and I could not leave without shopping - with me from the tram left 3 books 1. Book with biographies of Soviet science fiction 2. Graphic novel about travel in Irkutsk 19 century 3.
- · #ProductManagement
How to take care of the customer with benefit for the product – Peter Savostin, Tinkoff
How to take care of the customer with benefit for the product – Peter Savostin, Tinkoff It's useful. speech My colleague, Pyotr Savostin, who continues the topic. first date with a clientAnd then thereafter. customer involvement in the ecosystem. At the very beginning of the report, Peter says that care is the key to a long-term relationship. 1. Interest and hold 2. Listening and listening to each other 3. Surprise and anticipate desires 4. Looking at relationships more broadly 5. Be able to smooth corners properly
- · #Patterns
Object-oriented design patterns (Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software)
Object-oriented design patterns (Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software) Almost. 30 The classic book "Design Patterns" from the Gang of Four (Gamma E., Vlissides J., Johnson R., Helm R.). I read it for the first time ever. 2006 I have read it several times since then. I like the structure of the pattern itself. repeatable architectural design in which the fix design within the framework of some frequently occurring context . Plus, the taxonomy of patterns by category was interesting. n
- · #DataScience
Machine Learning: The New AI
Machine Learning: The New AI I read this simple book by Ethem Alpaydin from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series on the plane yesterday. 2016 year. It was quite interesting to read, but it is worth noting that this book is for beginners to get involved in this topic - the author explains all the concepts very simply without using complex mathematics, but using a large number of examples. After reading this book, you will not learn how to make ML, but at least understand what it is and how it can be applied in real life. Details in mine. article.
- · #Architecture
ArchDays MeetUp - Design database: From NF to Denormalization of Data
ArchDays MeetUp - Design database: From NF to Denormalization of Data 1 August 19:00 ArchDays will host a meeting in Moscow, where Anton Tsitulsky from Tinkoff will talk about the design of databases. He will start with how when starting a project usually start with a normalized view, which allows you to keep the data in a consistent state. In this format, it is easier to develop a solution, complicate the data model and write queries that can be done without fear of joins, since the load is small.
- · #BookCube
I'm leaving for Novosibirsk in an hour.
I'm leaving for Novosibirsk in an hour. Last time I was in Novosibirsk at the CodeFest conference 2019 In the year where he talked aboutTimlid Eye Culture: Transition from Monoproduct to Ecosystem" This time I'm going there to talk to colleagues, to participate in the trip to Ob, as well as an hour's worth of internal news on my unit, as well as our movements on architecture and development processes - I now rarely fly anywhere without speaking there:) Over the past year and a half, I've been so used to flying that I almost take it as a taxi ride.
- · #Software
How to fight for customer attention – Vladimir Posvyansky, Tinkoff
How to fight for customer attention – Vladimir Posvyansky, Tinkoff It's play My colleague, Vova Posvyansky, continues the topic. first date with a client (That's what Vova Ten told me.) And shifts the focus to how to make these dates permanent:) Vova began his speech with the question of why the struggle for the attention of the client is now a necessity not to turn into a commodity. Vova shows examples from the sphere of banking, search engines, shopping, social networks.
- · #Comics
eternaut (The Eternaut)
eternaut (The Eternaut) This graphic novel by Hector Oesterheld and Alberto Brecchia is an iconic Argentine comic book that was created more than ever. 50 years ago. Buenos Aires and a group of friends suddenly find themselves among the survivors of a deadly snowfall that kills everyone they touch. The story is told by Juan Salvo, whose family and friends escaped the snow by taking shelter in a house.
- · #BookCube
Summer Sale by Peter Publishing House
Summer Sale by Peter Publishing House I'm not a big fan of translations. Peter.But the non-translated books are OK:) If you can buy them for half the price, that’s even better. That’s exactly what they’re selling for. 1 August, where
- · #SciFi
Trouble is coming. (Something Wicked This Way Comes)
Trouble is coming. (Something Wicked This Way Comes) This graphic adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, who wrote in different genres and is known to many for his dystopia.451 Fahrenheit degree. In addition, he has an interesting autobiographical novella “Dandelion Wine”, about which I am told earlier. In the foreword to this book, Ray reveals that he also wrote the idea for this novel based on his childhood memories of carnivals and did it as a screenplay for Jeanne Kelly, the great dancer/actor/director.
- · #ForKids
The little prince (The little prince)
The little prince (The little prince) Re-read this book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in the new publication from MYTH in visual interpretation format by Claudia Bordin and in classical translation by Nora Gal. The illustrations in this edition are very good - they fit perfectly into this allegorical tale of friendship, separation, humanity, loyalty and love. As I read the book, I remember the classic quotes from this book:
- · #Devops
DevOps in Tinkoff: Culture, People, Tools Stanislav Chalupe
DevOps in Tinkoff: Culture, People, Tools Stanislav Chalupe Cool. speech from my former colleague, Stanislav Chalupa. I think about this talk quite often in the context of how the engineering culture in Tinkoff has changed. Stas was very cool, but he didn't speak so often.) In this speech, Stas was funny about how we went through the stages of the Bank. Internal start-ups - Ecosystems. And how these milestones drove the development of DevOps within our company.
- · #Software
The perfect first customer date with a product – Vladimir Ten, Tinkoff
The perfect first customer date with a product – Vladimir Ten, Tinkoff Interesting. speech My colleague, Vova Tena, about the first acquaintance with the product and how to make it so that it does not become the last:) Vova talked about how such a date usually begins - from the first screens of the application, pages of the site, visiting offline points.
- · #BookCube
There was a facade and we are discussing the second part of the book Kubernetes Patterns in another broadcast. Sorry the old link to the broadcast doesn't work.
There was a facade and we are discussing the second part of the book Kubernetes Patterns in another. broadcast. Sorry the old link to the broadcast doesn't work.