Book Cube: 2023, page 7
Book Cube publications from 2023, page 7: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #PopularScience
The race for Nobel. A Story of Cosmology, Ambition and the Highest Scientific Award (Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor)
The race for Nobel. A Story of Cosmology, Ambition and the Highest Scientific Award (Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor) Brian Keating has written a book about cosmology. It doesn’t seem that way, but he actually did. The book begins with the prologue, in which we get acquainted with the church of Alfred Nobel, which annually 10 In December, he holds a ritual where thousands of idolaters gather in Stockholm and watch the presentation of gold porters.
- · #CoA
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 behavioral patterns. We will talk about the interaction of Pods and the platform itself. We'll also discuss: What are the types of tasks (jobs) in k8s; What types of pods can be run by K8s? Can you build a stateful application using standard k8s tools? How does K8S perform Service Discovery? What the pod can learn from the platform
- · #ForKids
What's this? (Scarry`s Best Little Word Book Ever!)
What's this? (Scarry\`s Best Little Word Book Ever!) A cool book for toddlers from Richard Scurry, in which he perfectly shows the life of a family of cats who have kittens Huckley and Sally, as well as a worm Lawley. In the book, the author manages to show the wardrobe items of Sally and Huckley, their house, the table at which they eat breakfast, cars that meet on the streets of the city and so on. The drawing is so simple and characteristic that a baby of two and a half years old perfectly recognizes objects and with some help names them.
- · #Management
Google's Project Aristotle
Google's Project Aristotle After a successful study of managers (see. Google’s Project Oxygen) The guys at Google decided to do it. teamwork What makes a team effective at Google? But first they had to answer the question "What is a team?". They singled out 2 association
- · #History
My name is Gumi Lev.
My name is Gumi Lev. This graphic novel from Dennis Dvinsky and Askold Akishin tells about Nikolai Gumilev, whose name is 70 It was banned for years. Already on the first page we see how the life of the main character ends - he digs a hole into which the Bolsheviks will bury him after the shooting, and then we see the shooting itself. Then we go to Africa, where he went on expeditions a couple of times. We see communication with the investigator in PetroGubChK, acquaintance with Anna Akhmatova ...
- · #Management
Google’s Project Oxygen
Google’s Project Oxygen In 2008 Last year, Google decided to do a study. ("Project Oxygen") Determine if managers are helpful. The original hypothesis was that managers don’t really matter and don’t affect team performance. This hypothesis was based on the early belief of some leaders at Google that managers are a necessary evil at best, and at worst an extra layer of bureaucracy. The measurement of the level of management was based on two quantitative indicators: manager performance ratings and an annual survey of employees for feedback on managers.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Storytelling master class
Storytelling master class A couple of weeks ago, I had a three-hour workshop where we actually sorted out storytelling. He taught. Andrei Sokolov And he did it perfectly -- minimum theory, maximum practice. We worked in a small group and managed to do several practical exercises, among which the most interesting was the self-presentation of the participants. Each of us had to compose a mini-story about ourselves with a story from four perspectives, the first three of which are people’s opinions.
- · #Management
My colleague, Pasha Akhmetchanov, launched his own channel in telegram, in which he will talk about optimization of development processes, delivery metrics, work with projects and so on.
My colleague, Pasha Akhmetchanov, launched his channel in telegram, in which he will talk about optimization of development processes, delivery metrics, work with projects and so on. Pasha used to write a lot of documents, but most of them remained within our wiki, plus he occasionally spoke at conferences and metapas. But the new format with its own channel will allow him to share his thoughts more often and be useful for team leaders, project managers, deliberative managers and technical managers in general.
- · #Conference
Tinkoff IT festival in Kazan
Tinkoff IT festival in Kazan 5 In August in Kazan will be held our IT-fest - our summer festival about technology. There will be reports in different areas, DJ sets, a sea of communication and activity.
- · #Management
Mutually useful connections. How to establish and maintain warm relationships with the right people
Mutually useful connections. How to establish and maintain warm relationships with the right people I read Diana Skitova’s book about how to network properly. I don’t know anything about Diana as a blogger and singer, but she wrote a light and relaxed book for girls:) In the book itself, there are interesting moments, there are controversial ones, and there are those with which it is easy to become a pesky mlm-seller, whom everyone will ignore. The book itself consists of seven chapters.
- · #Strategy
Space two. The Art of Management and Strategy of the Future (Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past)
Space two. The Art of Management and Strategy of the Future (Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past) I read this book about strategic management seven years ago. And a book on such a hackneyed topic should stand out from the rest – this one stands out with an abundant use of metaphors, starting with the title, continuing with the title of chapters and ending with examples in chapters.
- · #Conference
How and where to grow systems analytics - report at FlowConf 2023
How and where to grow systems analytics - report at FlowConf 2023 11-12 I'll be in September perform at an offline conference for analysts and talk about the career tracks of system analysts. After all, once they grow to the leading and are in front of the fork. I will build my story so that we go from typical options to esoteric ones:
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Photos from my trip to Yerevan for Tinkoff Open Day arrived. We recently opened an office there and hosted a meeting where I talked about Research & Development.
Photos from my trip to Yerevan for Tinkoff Open Day arrived. We recently opened an office there and hosted a meeting where I talked about Research & Development. More specifically, how RnD appears in large companies. Since that trip, I have already accumulated a decent amount of RnD artifacts. 1. Transcription himself speech 2. Review: Google's Hybrid Approach to Research 3. White paper by Amazon Aurora 4. white paper "Design patterns for container-based distributed systems" 5. Review of AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries
- · #History
Skeletons in the closet. Dramatic Human Evolution (The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution)
Skeletons in the closet. Dramatic Human Evolution (The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack: and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution) A cool book on paleanthropology from Ian Tattersal, written in the style of a timeline of real finds of hominid bones. The author describes how different types of people coexisted and fought with each other. He talks about the hypotheses that were put forward on the basis of these findings regarding the dramatic evolution of man.
- · #SystemDesign
Review of AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries
Review of AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries To design services that scale well, you need to understand all the levels of abstraction on which we design systems. It's also cool to understand how we view dependencies on these underlying layers in terms of fault tolerance. (resilience). In order to use this approach, you can look at AWS documentation . This document is quite fresh. (renewal 16 November 2022 ) And it contains many designs that would be useful in designing:
- · #Engineering
Technology (Get Technology. Be in the Know. Upgrade Your Future)
Technology (Get Technology. Be in the Know. Upgrade Your Future) I finished reading this on Friday. book From the series "Build + Become", and the Russian title of the series translated "Think Different". The book describes current and future technologies in English. 2018 Since then, many technologies have become closer to reality than at the time of writing. (Hyperloop) The hype is a little quiet. Just like the other books in the series here. 5 piece 4 Chapters that focus on specific topics:
- · #Music
Soundtracks on the Organ: Harry Potter, Interstellar, Pirates of the Caribbean
Soundtracks on the Organ: Harry Potter, Interstellar, Pirates of the Caribbean I was with my wife last week. concerto Timur Khaliullina, who performed music from popular films and enlightened visitors about the organ and styles of composers whose works he performed. The melodies themselves, performed on the organ, were so colorful and lively, powerful and solemn, mysterious and mesmerizing that the first sounds it was easy to remember the film in which this music sounded.
- · #SoftwareDevelopment
Whitepaper: Design patterns for container-based distributed systems
Whitepaper: Design patterns for container-based distributed systems I read it recently. whitepaper 2016 Brendan Burns and David Oppenheimer talked about the patterns for designing distributed systems that originated in the container world. I found this article while I was preparing for the Code of Architecture edition of Kubernetes Patterns. I found the article interesting from the point of view of history, as one of the co-authors of the article (Brendan Burns) He is also a co-author of Kubernetes.
- · #ML
Large Language Models: Friend, Foe, or Otherwise • Alex Castrounis • GOTO 2023
Large Language Models: Friend, Foe, or Otherwise • Alex Castrounis • GOTO 2023 Interesting. keynote performance Alex Castrounis’ LLM at the Goto Conference in Chicago, Founder and CEOWhy of AI"and author of the book"AI for People and Business". In the presentation, the author discusses the following points:
- · #CoA
First edition of Code of Architecture by Kubernetes Patterns (2 edition)"
First edition of Code of Architecture by Kubernetes Patterns (2 edition)" Monday, 18:00 Moscow We're going to start reading a new book that won the vote. And the discussion will begin with the simplest - we will talk about the introductory chapter and then about the first part of the book with fundamental patterns.
- · #Conference
Public interview on troubleshooting for SRE engineers on DevOops
Public interview on troubleshooting for SRE engineers on DevOops In early September, DevOops conference I will conduct a public interview on treadshutting. I will interview my colleague Salikh Fakhrutdinov, who is responsible for reliability in our origination platform. We decided to do this interview to show how we at Tinkoff are conducting one of the interviews for SRE engineers, namely the interview with the work in the incident. I told about this type of interview at the conference Devops Conf and did a transcript in his article.
- · #BookCube
First day of ProIT Fest
First day of ProIT Fest I got to the festival and wandered between tents, talking to other speakers. I know a lot of people and the weather is great.)
- · #History
Genghis Khan (Ils ont fait l'histoire. Gengis Khan)
Genghis Khan (Ils ont fait l'histoire. Gengis Khan) An interesting comic book about the great conqueror and unifier of rocking tribes in the great Mongol Empire. This story is more about a part of life when he was Temujin. How he and his family wandered after the death of his father, poisoned by the Tatars. How he grew up and began to gather tribes around him and how he received the title of lord of boundless space (genghiskhan). As a result, his military campaigns reached the lands of China, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
- · #History
Legends of Ancient Cities (Children's course from Radio Arzamas)
Legends of Ancient Cities (Children's course from Radio Arzamas) Excellent. course Tamara Eidelman, who I found out about when my wife put him up for the night for our little son. The course was so interesting that even the son who fell asleep after the tale about Londo did not prevent me from continuing to listen to the story about Teruel, and then about Istanbul with traces of Byzantium:) In total, I recommend this course as an extension of my horizons, but not a fairy tale for the night:)
- · #SecureYourAccount
It Wasn’t Me - SecureYourAccount
It Wasn’t Me - SecureYourAccount Interesting. track About bank fraud. I saw this video today as an interruption to a security story. It seems to me that this approach to security is a working one – it presents a standard situation in a playful way, which can be prevented if you just know that the bank never asks about passwords, pins, confirmation codes, etc.
- · #Architecture
Architecting For Scale • Lee Atchison & Ken Gavranovic • GOTO 2021 (Category Architecture)
Architecting For Scale • Lee Atchison & Ken Gavranovic • GOTO 2021 (Rubric Architecture ) I looked at it. interview Lee Atchison with Ken Gavranovic on the second editionArchitecting For Scale", issued in 2020 year. About my impressions of the first edition I told A year ago. But I was interested in the new edition and the author’s story about it. What did these two respected people discuss? The topics were as follows:
- · #Conference
ProIT Fest!
ProIT Fest! Tomorrow evening I leave with my eldest son to St. Petersburg for the ProIT Fest festival, which will be held on the shores of the Gulf of Finland Park. 300- St. Petersburg anniversary. At the event itself, I will solve architectural cases that visitors will bring, as well as tell a story from the series “so historically developed” from my experience in Tinkoff. Plus, I plan to show my son what the IT festival looks like, since I have already taken him to an IT conference:) If you decide to attend the festival, you can buy a ticket.
- · #QualityAssurance
Black box testing (Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems)
Black box testing (Black-Box Testing: Techniques for Functional Testing of Software and Systems) I read this book by Dr. Boris Beiser a little less. 20 Years ago, I realized that testing is not easy:) The author talked about this in this book, drawing on graph theory, actively using predicate logic and utterance logic, actively appealing to threads of execution and data flows.
- · #Comics
Joan of Arc. (Ils ont fait l'histoire: Jeanne d'Arc)
Joan of Arc. (Ils ont fait l'histoire: Jeanne d'Arc) An interesting story about the Maiden of Orleans, who helped Charles VII become king. But Charles VII did not help her to avoid trial and burning at the stake, truth, then after the fact held a second trial and dismissed her charges of witchcraft and rehabilitated. There is a whole canonical story in this book: How voices spoke to her and sent her to save the king and France.
- · #Kubernetes
Code of Architecture - Kubernetes Patterns, 2nd Edition
Code of Architecture - Kubernetes Patterns, 2nd Edition In voting The second edition of “Kubenetes Patterns” won the choice of a new book, which was published in March. 2023. We will start reading it soon and plan to manage three or four issues. If you are interested in this topic, then there are a couple of resources for you that can be useful. Free version of RedHat’s ebook is available here My review of the first edition of the book is in article.
- · #SoftwareDevelopment
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • Mauricio Salatino & Thomas Vitale • GOTO 2023
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes • Mauricio Salatino & Thomas Vitale • GOTO 2023 Interesting. interview Mauricio Salatino, author of the bookPlatform Engineering on Kubernetes“ in which the following topics are discussed
- · #Engineering
Software Engineering at Google • Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis • GOTO 2022
Software Engineering at Google • Titus Winters & Matt Kulukundis • GOTO 2022 Cool. interview Titus Winters, co-curator of the bookSoftware Engineering at Google"with Matt Kulukundis at the Goto Conference Book Club. I have this book in line to read, and almost in first place.
- · #Comics
odyssey (L'Odyssee)
odyssey (L'Odyssee) Who hasn’t read stories about ancient Greece, gods and heroes? For example, as a child I remember reading books with the exploits of Hercules, the wanderings of Odysseus, the campaign of the Argonauts for the Golden Fleece.
- · #Performance
Visualizing Performance - The Developers’ Guide to Flame Graphs • Brendan Gregg • YOW! 2022
Visualizing Performance - The Developers’ Guide to Flame Graphs • Brendan Gregg • YOW! 2022 Interesting. report It's about visualizing performance using Flame graphs from Brendan Gregg, who invented them. He also developed the USE methodology. (utilization, saturation and errors). Specifically in this report, Gregg talks about 1. What are the implementations of flame graphs 2. How flame graphs work to profile CPU usage and how it came to their invention (spoiler: via flame charts) 3.
- · #Comics
Marx (Marx)
Marx (Marx) This graphic biography of Karl Marx is written in a very funny style: Karl, wearing a red cloak as Superman, tells us that he wanted to destroy capitalism. To destroy it in order to free humanity from poverty, inequality, exploitation, unemployment. His decision was a revolution... In fact, in this book, Anna Simone and Corinne Mayer, with the help of an interesting drawing and a large amount of irony, talk about the biography of Karl, starting from the birth of the artist. 1818 year and ending with death in 1883.
- · #ForKids
Jellies in construction (Zeloglutki na placu budowy)
Jellies in construction (Zeloglutki na placu budowy) This is an interesting book for a child of three years old, for example, my two and a half years old liked it. In it, the main characters are small crumbs from marmalade, which started a large construction. And even though the main characters are invented, and construction equipment is real. Also on the pages are tools and protective clothing. The book is made in a cool format, which I only caught when a couple of sheets fell out of it.
- · #Movie
Movies like Moneyball and Minority Report
Movies like Moneyball and Minority Report These two films were mentioned in the book Data Science. told yesterday. And the mentions were in diametrically opposite tone. The first film, Moneyball or The Man Who Changed Everything, shows what a successful data science project might look like. In it, the visionary manager tries to make the outsiders champions. He lacks the budget to buy cool players, so he comes up with a way to evaluate players more accurately and further finds underrated players from whom he makes a near-championship team.
- · #DataScience
Data Science
Data Science When I go somewhere, I prefer to do it with a book.) As a result, for yesterday’s flight from Yerevan to Moscow, I chose a lite book on Data Science from John D. Kelleher and Brendan Tierne, published in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. I chose this book for its pocket book format, interesting topic, and very simple and understandable language with which the authors reveal this complex topic. In the end, I decided to write a curtain. sammariThis is because the text did not fit in one TG post.
- · #Robotics
Robots are coming. Technology and a future without jobs (Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future)
Robots are coming. Technology and a future without jobs (Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future) Three years ago I read a book called "Rise of the Robots." ("Robots are coming.") by Martin Ford, published in English 2015 year. The book focuses on the development of technology and how this development leads to a more unequal distribution of income between the poor and the rich.
- · #RnD
How RnD Appears in Big IT Companies
How RnD Appears in Big IT Companies I am sharing a report with this title today at the Tinkoff Open House in Yerevan. When I was writing the paper, it sounded like this. Why do large IT companies do RnD? At what point does RnD appear and what does it look like? What are the challenges facing RnD? How can innovation be implemented and how can it be made effective? To find answers, I turned to the experience of such companies as Google, Amazon and Tinkoff:)
- · #PopularScience
Billions and billions. Reflections on Life and Death at the Turn of the Millennium (Billions and Billions)
Billions and billions. Reflections on Life and Death at the Turn of the Millennium (Billions and Billions) About five years ago, I read Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan, the famous American astronomer and science popularizer who played a leading role in the US space program. This is the last book Carl wrote before his death. 1996 year.
- · #Conference
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 (6-8 November in Chicago ... or online)
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 (6-8 November in Chicago ... or online) In 2019 I was at the Kubecon in Barcelona. There were more than 7k visitors and I had a great confa. At the end 2019 I went to the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference in Berlin. (I wrote about how planned And what were the impressions of the trip: 1 and 2). Nana 2020 I already had a lot of plans for a year, including a visit to Kubecon in North America, but the covid fucked up and all the overseas conferences were canceled.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering
Balancing your CEO, peers, and Engineering While flying from Moscow to Yerevan, I read half of the white paper about Amazon DynamoDB. 2022 I wrote a part of the article, finished a presentation for tomorrow, and also read an interesting article. article Will Larson. I liked the article and decided to share the main ideas: Will talks about the situation when a new top manager comes to the company Often, such a beginner is charged with changing everything at once, since the CEO did not invite him to the company for a reason, but to solve some problems.
- · #Comics
His name is Banksy. Graphic novel (His name is Banksy)
His name is Banksy. Graphic novel (His name is Banksy) Francesco Matteuzzi wrote a book about one of the most outstanding and bright contemporary artists, whose identity is reliably unknown. This mystery draws attention to the work of Banksy, as well as of course his famous murals. (huge images that are applied to the wall of a building or structure). This comic tells about the courage and scale of Banksy’s ideas, which break the framework of the usual ideas and take street art to a new level.
- · #Thinking
About the program "Effective Thinking" with grandmaster Ernesto Inarkieva n
About the program "Effective Thinking" with grandmaster Ernesto Inarkieva n I’ve been learning something new and exciting all my life, so I’m often asked to participate in experiments. One such experiment was a discussion with Ernesto about his Effective Thinking program, which our HR managers see as one of the training options for top managers. Ernesto himself is a European chess champion, grandmaster, is in the TOP.100 the best chess players in the world and in the top30 fast chess.
- · #Biography
Sultan Suleiman. Biography in comics (Ils ont fait l'histoire: Soliman le Magnifique)
Sultan Suleiman. Biography in comics (Ils ont fait l'histoire: Soliman le Magnifique) I finished reading another comic book about great people, this time about the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who ruled almost completely. 50 He expanded the empire to the maximum in its history. In fact, the comic tells about the final part of the life of the sultan, where he He kills his son because of suspicion of rebellion.
- · #CoA
Election of a new book for discussion within the Code of Architecture Club
Election of a new book for discussion within the Code of Architecture Club We recently finished reading a book. "Building Evolutionary Architecture" and white paper on Amazon AuroraNow it is time to choose a new book. This time we added to the list the book "Kubernetes patterns" that the audience asked for, and about which I talked. earlier. The other three books are from last time: The Software Architect Elevator - I'm talking about it too. told Building Secure and Reliable Systems - I'm talking about it.
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
To continue the story about the Minimum Viable Architecture report, I decided to attach a picture with different stages of the company’s life and architectural characteristics.
Continuing story About the Minimum Viable Architecture report, I decided to attach a picture with different stages of the company’s life and architectural characteristics. I think it's a great visualization of Randy Shoup's story. SoftwareArchitecture Architecture SystemEngineering DistributedSystems SystemDesign SystemThinking Software
- · #Architecture
Minimum Viable Architecture • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022 (Category Architecture)
Minimum Viable Architecture • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022 (Rubric Architecture ) Another one. pitch Randy Shoup, VP Engineering & Chief Architect at eBay. Previous Post “Improving Software Flow” told Earlier, gave me ideas for one of his reports, which will be in the fall:) In this report, the author explained that it is worth starting with an MVA. (Minimum Viable Architecture)It is similar in concept to MVP. (Minimum Viable Product). He began his story with the early architecture of eBay and Amazon, which evolved over time.
- · #Comics
The Invisible Man (The Invisible Man)
The Invisible Man (The Invisible Man) Over the weekend I read this comic in which Chris Rainier from the first pages immerses the reader in the amazing world of H.G. Wells. Here we meet Griffin, a brilliant scientist who has learned to make physical bodies invisible. He conducted an experiment on himself and then turned the classic plot, which comes to life in the beautiful illustrations of this comic book. The main character is certainly disgusting, but the story itself is interesting and worth reading.