Book Cube: 2023, page 8
Book Cube publications from 2023, page 8: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Mentoring and the GROW model
Mentoring and the GROW model Last week I had a short training in mentoring and the GROW model as a basic tool. It was interesting to hear about the differences between mentoring and coaching, about which I read John Whitmore’s classic book Coaching. ("Coaching for Performance")which I wrote about earlier. I needed mentoring training for two purposes: 1) The graduates of our internal MBA with INSEAD received requests for mentoring from students at the second graduation, which is held jointly with Skolkovo.
- · #Comics
Magellan. Biography in comics (Magellan)
Magellan. Biography in comics (Magellan) Magellan - the name of the first round-the-world traveler is known to everyone since childhood, but not many people know what his path looked like. As a Portuguese by birth was the commander of the Spanish expedition around the world. Why did he go on this expedition west for the spices that were in the east? How five ships turned into one and what happened to the commanders during the journey.
- · #RnD
Publications on Google Research
Publications on Google Research For the past couple of days, I have been actively preparing for my RnD report and researching the page. research.google/pubs/Check out what white papers Google used and when. Finally, I compiled a list of key documents focusing on services and infrastructures. (except for ML)which he decided to share
- · #Comics
Notre Dame de Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris)
Notre Dame de Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris) In this graphic novel by Claude Kare we see the familiar story of Victor Hugo, who experienced numerous film adaptations, productions in the form of musicals and so on. This time it was time to make a comic out of it. It is worth noting that this graphic adaptation was developed in cooperation with the International Federation of Teachers of French and published with the support of UNESCO, which means that liberties and trifles in the comic book at a minimum.
- · #Announcement
Tellmeabout.tech is a new domain for my blog
tellmeabout.tech - A new domain for my blog I moved the blog from the domain apolomodov.medium.com to a new, fashionable, youthful one. https://tellmeabout.tech/ The main reason is that the new domain, unlike the old one, opens perfectly in Russia:) The rest remained the same:
- · #PopularScience
From orgasm to immortality. Drag designer notes
From orgasm to immortality. Drag designer notes This book about the creation of drugs was written by former Soviet scientist Grigory Nikiforovich in a storytelling format that captures from the first pages. 0) 600 millions - the so-called introduction and it is dedicated to Viagra, which according to the plan was supposed to help with chest pain, and began to bring pleasure (By the way, in 600 Millions of authors appreciated their appliances) 1) Know yourself. A chapter on biology, genetics and the transition from molecule to organism.
- · #Management
Classification of managerial roles by Henry Mintzberg
Classification of managerial roles by Henry Mintzberg In the continuation of the story about organizational behavior, I wanted to say that we analyzed the roles of managers according to Henry Mintzberg, among which he distinguished. 3 categories 10 separate roles. Below is a diagram of the interaction of the types of these roles, as well as a list of the roles themselves, grouped by category. In principle, the leader plays these roles depending on the situation, but some of these roles are given to him easier / more difficult.
- · #Science
A scientist. Children's academy (Scientist Academy: Are you ready for the challenge?)
A scientist. Children's academy (Scientist Academy: Are you ready for the challenge?) This book is part of a series of children's academy, which still has an "Engineer Academy" and "Architect Academy", but I have not seen their translation into Russian. In this book about scientists, the child is offered to become a researcher for a while, study some facts and conduct laboratory work.
- · #Management
MBA module "Organizational Behavior"
MBA module "Organizational Behavior" I spend my second day studying in Skolkovo. And yesterday we talked about 1) teaching styles Kolba - I have a brief one. sammari Kolb's book, How You Learn Is How You Live, describes the concept. 2) Organizational Behavior in Three Levels : person, team, company. Here I remember the stories. The story of Microsoft and its changing culture after Satya Nadella came. The book came out.
- · #AI
How to negotiate with a robot (How to Talk to Robots: A Girl's Guide to a Future Dominated by AI)
How to negotiate with a robot (How to Talk to Robots: A Girl's Guide to a Future Dominated by AI) Tabitha Goldstaub has written an interesting introduction level book for those interested in artificial intelligence. Now everyone understands that AI affects the fate of people, but not everyone understands how it works under the hood and what it affects. The author of the book believes that this future in cooperation with intelligent robots, it does not necessarily turn out to be rosy.
- · #RnD
IT's Tinkoff in Yerevan
IT's Tinkoff in Yerevan In a week, or rather, 29 I will be in Yerevan in June. Tinkoff Open Day. I'm going to talk about how RnD (Research and Development) Appears in large IT companies In my report I will answer the following questions:
- · #Databases
CoA Book Club - Amazon Aurora Discussion
CoA Book Club - Amazon Aurora Discussion Code of Architecture: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases. The communication went well and we ended up with a set of artifacts:
- · #Comics
Don Quixote (Don Quichotte)
Don Quixote (Don Quichotte) In this edition, the immortal novel by Miguel de Cervantes “The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha” is presented in the form of a graphic adaptation, and simply in the form of a comic book. And this comic conveys the main outline of the novel: Provincial Hidalgo read books and went a little crazy In his fictional world, he became a wandering knight and went to exploits for the sake of the lady of the heart. The days of chivalry are in the past.
- · #Devops
State of Platform Engineering Report 2023 Puppet
State of Platform Engineering Report 2023 Puppet I recently read a report.State of DevOps Report" from Puppet, which in 2023 The year was devoted to the topic of platform engineering, which they came to instead of a survey about Devops in general. They even banned the term "DevOps team" because of its meaninglessness.
- · #Leadership
Extract the Kernel by Will Larson
Extract the Kernel by Will Larson Interesting. mini-article from Will Larson (authorStaff EngineerandElegant Puzzle") How to get the maximum effect from communication with top managers. The main problem with this feedback is that teams often focus on specific details, which is rarely the right strategy. He gives the following advice. When you get a question from an executive, focus on understanding the insight or perspective within the question. Then confirm that insight with the executive explicitly.
- · #Databases
Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Troughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases
Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Troughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases Tomorrow night, 18:00 Moscow We're going to have a Code of Architecture release about an interesting database. Amazon Aurora. It is interesting both in terms of marketing and technical: This technical product within AWS was highlighted by Jeff Bezos in his annual letters to shareholders. 2014 and 2015 year This technical product is the implementation of the concept "the log is a database".
- · #Brain
Brain crossfit
Brain crossfit About five years ago I read the book “CrossFit of the Brain” authored by Igor Nakamonov, in which the author proposes a system of 23 Exercises to prepare for non-standard tasks:) The book is easy to read, as it is written by a creative person for those who want to increase their creativity. At the beginning of the book, the author defines creativity as the ability to connect already known elements in a unique way. From this definition follow the constituent parts: Preparedness - to know already known elements
- · #CoA
CoA - Recap of "Building Evolutionary Architecture"
CoA - Recap of "Building Evolutionary Architecture" This May and June at our Code of Architecture book club, we discussed a book about building evolutionary architectures, which we reviewed in five issues. In this article I wanted to share all the materials and remind you of the summary of what we discussed.
- · #Management
How Big Companies Hire Leads in 2023 year" - Continuation
How Big Companies Hire Leads in 2023 year" - Continuation Yesterday I wrote my thoughts about this round table and mentioned that Vladimir Konoplev, CTO SME, participated from Tinkoff. (Bank for small and medium-sized businesses). Today, Vova wrote. posture With your thoughts on the subject in your channel. In general, Vova writes useful posts with thoughts on topics like OKR and KPI or Outcomes over OutputsWhich can be interesting to read.
- · #Management
How Big Companies Hire Leads in 2023 Yandex Go Round Table on SouthHub
How Big Companies Hire Leads in 2023 Yandex Go Round Table on SouthHub I was at a round table today where this topic was discussed. Once again I saw a discussion of issues, such as
- · #Postmortem
From monolith to microservices and back
From monolith to microservices and back This is the story. He told me about South Hub. 2023 in the format of mini stand-up:) South Hub is a camp for CTOs and those who dream of becoming them, and what accomplishments without fakaps, which is why the Fuckup Nights section appeared at this conference. The story happened to me at the beginning of my Tinkoff career, less than seven years ago. Then I was responsible for a few small teams, which consisted of 10 engineers
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures We had it yesterday. fifth and final stream We have mentioned the following books and concepts:
- · #SciFi
Philip K. Dick. Biography in comics (Phil, une vie de Philip K. Dick)
Philip K. Dick. Biography in comics (Phil, une vie de Philip K. Dick) Philip Kindred Dick has written many works you know even if you haven’t read them. The fact is that they were successfully filmed:
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture
Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture We have a club tonight.Code of Architecturelast stream I wrote a book called Building Evolutionary Architecture, and I decided to read a book about metrics in software architecture. And so fortunately, I was able to read most of this book on the road between Moscow and Sochi. And I flew to Sochi yesterday to the SouthHub Camp for CTO, where I also have a short performance today.
- · #BookCube
Parachute jump
Parachute jump Three weeks ago, I took my son to parachute, and suddenly I got off the plane at altitude. 4 thousand meters...
- · #RnD
Investigation of The Relationship Between Brand Value And R&D Activities: Fortune 500 Companies Analysis
Investigation of The Relationship Between Brand Value And R&D Activities: Fortune 500 Companies Analysis I keep digging into RnD and reading different articles and not all of them are equally useful. For example, an article from Google that I’m talking about. told It was a top, and today’s article is on the other end of the spectrum. They wanted to test the relationship between the value of a company’s brand and how much they invested in RnD activity. First, the authors conducted a meta-study and analyzed the results of previous studies.
- · #Management
Invent and Wander. Featured articles by Amazon creator Jeff Bezos (Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos)
Invent and Wander. Featured articles by Amazon creator Jeff Bezos (Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos) This is a joint book by Jeff Bezos and Walter Isaacson, the author of popular biographies of Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and others. It's definitely worth reading. 1) In it, a cool introduction from Walter, where he vividly talks about Jeff as a person who can be put on a par with the other heroes of his books. 2) Walter gives the floor to Jeff, who tells the story of Amazon in annual shareholder letters.
- · #CoA
The fifth and final issue of Code of Architecture, Building Evolutionary Architectures
The fifth and final issue of Code of Architecture, Building Evolutionary Architectures Tuesday, 18:00 Moscow We will finish reading this book and look at the entire third part of Impact, which has three chapters: Building Evolvable Architectures – Principles, Mechanics and Guidelines Evolutionary Architecture Pitfalls and Antipatterns – Technical Architecture, Incremental Change and Business Interests Putting Evolutionary Architecture into Practice - Organizational Factors, Functions at the Organizational Level, Where to Start and Where to Go
- · #Music
Headliners of Russian rock: the history of groups and their legendary albums
Headliners of Russian rock: the history of groups and their legendary albums Reading this book, I felt like I was hearing the music of the bands I was reading about:) The book has about the legendary bands that I listened to as a child: Cinema, Aquarium, Zemfira, Splin, Bi-2, DDT, Leningrad, Nautilus Pompilius, Alice, King and Jester. Now I prefer to listen to foreign music, as it serves well as a background and does not distract from work, but sometimes on the radio in the car I hear old friends and often want to start singing along.
- · #RnD
Jeff Bezos Letter to Shareholders 2010 year
Jeff Bezos Letter to Shareholders 2010 year Continuing the topic of RnD (Research and Development)I want to remember letter Jeff Bezos to shareholders in 2010 year. In this letter, Jeff talked about the importance of common approaches and tools. Here are the highlights I have noted for myself: - Many of the problems we face have no textbook solutions, and so we -- happily -- invent new approaches.
- · #RnD
Review: Google's Hybrid Approach to Research
Review: Google's Hybrid Approach to Research Recently, I’ve been interested in how RnD works. (Research and Development) direction in different technology companies. So I came across this one. article 2012 This is a year that describes how Google does it. (The article is available in pdf version here). I found the approach interesting and wrote a review, which added visualizations of the main ideas of the authors of the original article.
- · #Software
Continuous Architecture in Practice Eoin Woods & Simon Brown • GOTO 2021
Continuous Architecture in Practice Eoin Woods & Simon Brown • GOTO 2021 Interview in two parts of Eoin Woods (Author of "Continuous Architecture in Practice")which he gave to Simon Brown. (Author of Software Architecture for Developers).
- · #Comics
Birth of the gods (La Sagesse des Mythes. La Naissance des Dieux)
Birth of the gods (La Sagesse des Mythes. La Naissance des Dieux) Very beautiful and interesting comic from the same series as the comic book Prometheus and Pandora's Box. In fact, this comic is the beginning of the series, as it tells the Greek version of the Big Bang with the advent of the Earth. (Gay) Chaos, then the birth of the sky (Uranus)The first gods of the Greek Pantheon, among whom was Kronos, the only one not locked up.
- · #Math
Free online course in mathematics for schoolchildren 4-6 Classes from Tinkoff Education
Free online course in mathematics for schoolchildren 4-6 Classes from Tinkoff Education We appeared. free mathematics courses for middle school students. These courses will help to increase interest in mathematics among schoolchildren, since mathematics is not always taught in schools. Also, courses can help develop thinking and prepare students for new achievements in high school. P.S. I went to FTZ myself. (correspondence physical and technical school at MIPT)But it was already in 10 and 11 It helped me in my class and helped me get into Physics.
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures We had it yesterday. fourth-stream We have mentioned the following books and concepts:
- · #Architecture
Organization: A Tool for Software Architects • Eberhard Wolff • GOTO 2021
Organization: A Tool for Software Architects • Eberhard Wolff • GOTO 2021 Interesting. speech Goto conference on the relationship between architecture and how it relates to what is happening in the organization. Conway’s Law: “Organizations design systems that copy the structure of communications in that organization.” (1967 year). And then he talks about Conway's reverse maneuver.
- · #CoA
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architecture
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architecture Tonight, 18:00 Moscow We will continue reading the book about evolutionary architecture and talk about the chapter. Discuss. 6Building Evolutionary Architectures More specifically, theme. Incremental change of schema and data in the database Transactions as a driver of evolution Control of reference integrity in distributed systems
- · #Science
Scientific communication. Guide for scientific press secretaries and journalists (Handbook for Science Public Information Officers)
Scientific communication. Guide for scientific press secretaries and journalists (Handbook for Science Public Information Officers) I read this book over the weekend and was interested in the connection between the work of a science press secretary and a devrel specialist, or rather the similarity of their working methods: a science press secretary connects journalists and scientists. Journalists need to tell him in simple words what the scientist has succeeded in and what effect his work has had.
- · #Architecture
Confessions of an Enterprise Architect • Scott Shaw • YOW! 2016
Confessions of an Enterprise Architect • Scott Shaw • YOW! 2016 Speech About enterprise architecture seven years ago, which was published today on the channel GOTO Conferences. Why would I remember him now? And the answer is simple - just this week, we at the ArchDays conference program committee discussed topics for the fifth annual ArchDays conference. 2023. During the discussion, we recalled the request of visitors to the previous conference about reports on enterprise architecture.
- · #Software
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes
The Illustrated Children's Guide to Kubernetes I remember. 5 Years ago I came across an interesting comic About Kubernetes for children (he has video). I like the concept that complex things are explained literally on the fingers so that the baby will understand. Recently, I went to see the project updates and noticed that now it is called Phippy & Friends There are new characters and new series:
- · #Databases
Database Refactoring: Evolutionary Design (Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design)
Database Refactoring: Evolutionary Design (Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design) This book focuses on the evolution of databases. It's written in 2006 At the time, relational databases were the de facto standard and there were no alternatives. Therefore, the whole book is devoted to the evolution of approaches with a rigid data scheme. (schema on read)It actively discusses the use of triggers and stored procedures and does not include polyglot persistence.
- · #Comics
Churchill. Biography in comics ("Ils ont fait l’histoire: Churchill, volume 1" and "Ils ont fait l'histoire: Churchill, volume 2")
Churchill. Biography in comics ("Ils ont fait l’histoire: Churchill, volume 1" and "Ils ont fait l'histoire: Churchill, volume 2") I finished reading today the biography of Churchill in comics, which was written by a quartet of authors: Delma Vincensen, Kersody François, Renaud Christoph, Cammardella Alessio.
- · #CoA
YouTube channel "Code of Architecture"
YouTube channel "Code of Architecture" We got a separate one. channel On YouTube, where discussions of the book club of the same name will be published. Plus, there are now playlists with records for each book, which so far ran over. 7 full and one in progress:) Subscribe so as not to miss new streams (Or I’ll remind you of them separately.)
- · #Processes
Kafka (Franz Kafka: A Biographic Novel)
Kafka (Franz Kafka: A Biographic Novel) This comic by Robert Krumb and David Zane Meyrowitz tells the story of Franz Kafka, whose identity remains mysterious to this day. I didn’t read his work, but I was wondering who Apache Kafka’s popular open source solution for building messaging systems was named after. One of the creators of this open source solution, Jay Kreps, liked Kafka’s work and gave this name to the solution, because it is an open source solution. a system optimized for writing ".
- · #SystemDesign
Book Review: Hacking the System Design Interview
Book Review: Hacking the System Design Interview I finally finished writing. survey Another book about System Design Interviews. This time it’s a book by Stanley Chiang, who works at Google. According to legend, he took notes in preparation for this type of interview and then turned them into a book that sells well, according to Amazon. By the way, I found this book more interesting than Alex Xu’s System Design Interview, which I covered in Medium articles: 1 and 2.
- · #Music
Green Day. Photo album with comments of group members (Green Day by Bob Gruen)
Green Day. Photo album with comments of group members (Green Day by Bob Gruen) I posted a photo album of this group yesterday. Interestingly, this album is not just photos, but photos with comments from the band members. Plus photography was made by the cult music photographer Bob Gruen. I'm not a fan of the band, but songs like "American Idiot" or "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" have long been on my playlist.)
- · #SoftwareArchitecture
C4 Models as Code • Simon Brown • YOW! 2022
C4 Models as Code • Simon Brown • YOW! 2022 Interesting. speech Simon Brown, creator of notation C4 ModelIn which he talks about the concept of charts as code and shows a demo. The concept itself is described in the first ten minutes where Simon takes the steps. 1) from drawing diagrams using Visio 2) further to the description of diagrams as code in plantuml 3) and then create a model in structurizr and generating different diagrams from a consistent model
- · #ExternalReview
Code of Architecture — Recap of “Learning Domain Driven Design”
Code of Architecture — Recap of “Learning Domain Driven Design” Last year, at the Code of Architecture book club, we reviewed the excellent book "Learning Domain Driven Design," which came out at the end of the book. 2021 years. We've had six intense episodes of about an hour each. The last issue was a bonus one – we talked to the author of the book and asked questions collected from viewers over the previous five issues. In this article I decided to collect all the materials in one place.
- · #Design
Six principles of practicality from the book Software Development (Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design)
Six principles of practicality from the book Software Development (Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design) I've already told you about this book. earlier And there I talked about the five rules of practicality:) And the author also has six principles of practicality, which are also entertaining and useful even now. 25 years after the book was published. These are the principles in a slightly edited form.
- · #CoA
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures
Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures We had it yesterday. third-stream In the book, we mentioned the following sources: