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Book Cube publications from 2023, page 9: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.

  1. · #SciFi

    The vanished world (The gone world)

    The vanished world (The gone world) Sometimes I read not only non-fiction books, but also sci-fiction.) For example, a couple of years ago, I read Tom Sveterlich's book The Gone World. And I loved the book: a brutal thriller in the form of light fiction with a main line containing a customized, multi-world interpretation of Everett's quantum physics. The main character jumps in time and investigates a brutal murder, and the further, the more it feels like she falls down a rabbit hole like Alice.

  2. · #Architecture

    Principles of Continuous Architecture

    Principles of Continuous Architecture After the book "Building Evolutionary Architecture", I wanted to take another book about architecture and its development from the shelf. I chose "Continuous Architecture in Practice".

  3. · #CoA

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures Tonight, 18:00 Moscow We will continue reading the book on evolutionary architecture and talk about the chapter on evolutionary architecture topologies. It will talk about the standard coupling and cohesion, as well as about the rarer connascence. Next, the authors will talk about their concept of architectural quanta, contracts, and end with patterns of reuse.

  4. · #Learning

    The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition

    The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition Yesterday I finished reading this very interesting book by Felienne Hermans, in which she talks about how our brain works and explains how it can help us become better at software development and beyond:) The book has four parts: 1) On reading code better We are rewarded with reading code more often than writing it, and we are not taught much about it, so the author begins by correcting this injustice. It is here that the author talks about the model of brain work with STM.

  5. · #Culture

    Mark Rothko. The miracle of painting. Biography of the great artist (Mark Rothko. Il miracolo della pittura)

    Mark Rothko. The miracle of painting. Biography of the great artist (Mark Rothko. Il miracolo della pittura) This graphic novel by Scardelli Giovanni and Mattezzi Francesco is dedicated to the life and work of the American artist. Marcus RothkoHe left the Russian Empire as a child and moved to the United States.

  6. · #ForKids

    My big bear. (Bye-Bye Doudou)

    My big bear. (Bye-Bye Doudou) I really enjoyed reading this book about my favorite toy, which was originally much larger than the baby, but then the balance of power gradually changed. The child grew up, and his beloved bear remained as it was. But today, it's hard to believe! I woke up and I saw: My toy bear. He's got a smaller stature.

  7. · #Leadership

    Meeting of CTO-CPO club Avito 25 May

    Meeting of CTO-CPO club Avito 25 May Yesterday. meeting CTO meeting from Avito, where we gathered order 50 man. We played an interesting "Business Breakthrough" game in which we divided into teams and looked for solutions for two situations. To come up with solutions within the game, we were given a framework that throws creative ideas that you can try to apply to solve the problem.

  8. · #Software

    Blood, sweat and pixels (Blood, sweat and pixels)

    Blood, sweat and pixels (Blood, sweat and pixels) Year. 3 Last weekend, I read this book, Jason Schreier, and it was surprisingly good. Maybe it's because these ten stories remind me too much of a job. Or the thing is that stories about the heroic overcoming of numerous problems by game development teams are perceived as a happy epic. (Except for the StarWars story.

  9. · #Architecture

    Just-in-time Architecture • Macklin Hartley • YOW! 2022 (Category Architecture)

    Just-in-time Architecture • Macklin Hartley • YOW! 2022 (Rubric Architecture ) Good. speech It's about architecture, where the author talks about the simple idea that there is no universal architecture that works for everyone. The presentation is based on the example of a system for users to buy avatars, and the work of a coffee shop is used as a visual metaphor. In this metaphor, the coffeehouse gradually grows and it needs to evolve, and in the course of this evolution, the author manages to go through the topics.

  10. · #Comics

    Statistics in comics (Inroducing Statistics. A Graphic Guide)

    Statistics in comics (Inroducing Statistics. A Graphic Guide) A couple of years ago, I read this statistics comic book with great interest by Aileen Magnello, PhD, of Oxford University, and Borin Van Loon, a surrealist artist and illustrator. He is good at solving a complex topic, using simple examples, presented with humor, and dazzling illustrations. (Some of them are shown in the pictures below.).

  11. · #ExternalReview

    Code of Architecture — Recap of "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts"

    Code of Architecture — Recap of "Software Architecture: The Hard Parts" Last year, at the Code of Architecture book club, we reviewed the book Software Architecture: The Hard Parts. 2021 years. We've had six intense episodes of about an hour each. In this article I decided to collect all the materials in one place. I needed these materials in the context of the discussion of the book "Evolutionary Architecture", because there is a great overlap between the topics of fitness functions and architecture governance.

  12. · #CoA

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architecture

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architecture We had it yesterday. second-stream In the book, we mentioned the following sources:

  13. · #Design

    Software development (Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design)

    Software development (Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design) This book was written by Larry Constantine and Lucy Lockwood. 1999 It was devoted to the creation of practical software that would be convenient to use and it corresponded to the goals of the user. In Russian, the book came out in 2004 under the title "Software Development", which led to the 2005 I bought it for myself to learn how to write software better.

  14. · #Software

    How to Read Complex Code • Felienne Hermans • YOW! 2021

    How to Read Complex Code • Felienne Hermans • YOW! 2021 It's speech Felienne Hermans is about the same topic as the book Code Reading. told yesterday. It’s funny that developers read code most of the time. ( 60%)They don't write it, but rarely do they learn to read code rather than write it:) Therefore, the author decided to correct this situation and speak about reading code, as well as write a book “The Programmer’s Brain”, in which the same ideas are set out in much more detail.

  15. · #Software

    Analysis of software code on the example of open source projects (Code Reading. The Open Source Perspective)

    Analysis of software code on the example of open source projects (Code Reading. The Open Source Perspective) This book 2004 The year of release by Diomidis Spinellis appeared in my 2005 It was a year when I was just beginning to get acquainted with industrial development, and then it seemed interesting to me. The concept of the author was to introduce developers to the basic concepts of development using examples from large open source projects of the time.

  16. · #ForKids

    Lama visiting grandparents (Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa)

    Lama visiting grandparents (Llama Llama Gram and Grandpa) Another book by Anna Dudney is about little Lama and his mother. In this series, Lama goes to his grandparents and everything would be fine, but his favorite toy. (lamic) He's leaving in the car with his mom. Throughout the day, the little Lama remembers about her, but it is in the evening that this leads to a hail of tears: Nossik, my ears were shaking. Tears ran quietly I'd put my finger on the lamik, He's only at home!

  17. · #CoA

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures At the end of the weekend, on Monday, we will discuss 4Automating Architectural Governance. We will discuss the following questions: How automation helps to build an evolutionary architecture Fitness functions based on code metrics; tools for creating fitness functions;

  18. · #History

    The Beatles. The birth of a legend (Beatles with an A. Birth of a band)

    The Beatles. The birth of a legend (Beatles with an A. Birth of a band) Interesting graphic novel (or at least a story) It's about the legendary band, but rather their formation. The comic by Maury Kunnas is beautifully drawn and tells the story of all the band members and at the same time about the group The Quarrymen, which was before the Beatles. Interestingly described moments of Hamburg tour of the Beatles, where they intensively honed their style.

  19. · #History

    Books. World History of Libraries

    Books. World History of Libraries This week, I got a book from Campbell and Price about the history of libraries as architectural objects around the world. It seemed to me that since I love books and I love architecture, I should buy myself this gift two-pound edition:) Perhaps the ideas from this book will be embodied in my new library, which I will soon have:)

  20. · #Comics

    Prometheus and Pandora's Box (La Sagesse des Mythes. Promethee et la Boite de Pandore)

    Prometheus and Pandora's Box (La Sagesse des Mythes. Promethee et la Boite de Pandore) This book introduces readers to the myth of Prometheus, who brought fire to people, as well as to Pandora, the first woman who was created at the behest of Zeus as a punishment for people who stole fire for them. In fact, a curious Pandora opened a vessel received from Zeus, from which misfortunes and disasters spread throughout the world. In this book, these myths are presented in the form of a comic book that is interesting to read with children.

  21. · #Thinking

    The Great Mental Models - Vol. 1

    The Great Mental Models - Vol. 1 A very cool book about mental models that can pump your thinking. This book is part of the project.The Great Mental Models ProjectThere are three volumes, and the first is devoted to the basic concepts of thinking. (general thinking concepts)Among which the authors highlight the following

  22. · #Career

    Head of Engineering RnD at Tinkoff

    Head of Engineering RnD at Tinkoff Very tasty. vacancy to the team of my colleague, Igor Maslov, who is VP and is responsible for our platform development. We at Tinkoff know how to make customer products and our scale is such that we are ready not only to invest in products and development that are producing results now, but also invest in research in the field of Computer Science. For example, it can be domain research.

  23. · #Finance

    Bernard Madoff's pyramid scheme. Investigating the biggest scam in history (No One Would Listen. A True Financial Thriller)

    Bernard Madoff's pyramid scheme. Investigating the biggest scam in history (No One Would Listen. A True Financial Thriller) About six years ago, I read this book about the Ponzi and Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme that took it to the next level. Speaking of narrative style, the author, Harry Marcopolos, talks about how he explored the paradox of stable “profitability” of Maddoff’s company throughout his career.

  24. · #CoA

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architecture

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architecture We passed today. first-stream I mentioned the following sources related to evolutionary architecture:

  25. · #CoA

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures

    Code of Architecture: Building Evolutionary Architectures Tonight, 18:00 Moscow We will begin reading a new book that focuses on building evolutionary architectures, or rather software architectures and products that evolve over time and change depending on the needs of businesses or users. In the first chapter, we will discuss the first three chapters: 1) Evolving Software Architecture 2) Fitness Functions 3) Engineering Incremental Change

  26. · #PopularScience

    Cosmologically (Kosmologisch)

    Cosmologically (Kosmologisch) A wonderful popular science book by Harald Lesch, in which he talks in simple language about physics, biology, astronomy.

  27. · #ML

    Baidu. How a Chinese search engine beat Google with artificial intelligence (Artifical Intelligence Revolution. How AI Will Change our Society, Economy, and Culture)

    Baidu. How a Chinese search engine beat Google with artificial intelligence (Artifical Intelligence Revolution. How AI Will Change our Society, Economy, and Culture) I read this book in a few days. 2017 About Baidu by Robin Lee, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors. I can say that it raises an interesting topic, but the translation into Russian is simply terrible.

  28. · #ForKids

    Lama's mad at mom (Llama Llama Mad at Mama)

    Lama's mad at mom (Llama Llama Mad at Mama) This book is from the same series as Lama Red Pyjamas. ("Llama Llama Red Pajama")Which I'm talking about. told. In this book, the baby lama and mom lama go to the store and start shopping. The noise and crowds of people do not like the baby, but the mother does not notice this. Then there is a flash and all purchases fly in all directions. At this point, our youngest son said "Max," recognizing his older brother's behavior:) But then the mother resolves the situation, calming the baby lama: We'll live in joy.

  29. · #Architecture

    Call for Paper on ArchDays

    Call for Paper on ArchDays 27The fifth ArchDays conference will be held in October to discuss topics related to architecture and software design. We have started accepting applications, you can leave your applications on the website. https://archdays.ruOr you can write a brief summary in the comments to this post.

  30. · #SciFi

    Brave new world (Brave New World)

    Brave new world (Brave New World) About five years ago, I read Aldous Huxley’s classic Brave New World. Just over the evening, I swallowed this story about the misadventures of the Savage from an Indian reservation in the future of London. The inhabitants of this London are divided into castes, whose life is determined even from the assembly line for the release of people, which replaced live birth in the future.

  31. · #Management

    Improving Software Flow • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022 (Category Management)

    Improving Software Flow • Randy Shoup • YOW! 2022 (Rubric Management ) Cool. speech Randy is about building software. Randy himself is a VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay, so he has a great mix of architectural and process recommendations. He built his speech on 5 book ideals The Unicorn Project (me told before)This is a sequel to a popular book. The Phoenix Project (About her, too. told earlier). These are the five ideals.

  32. · #Architecture

    Code of Arch — Recap of Distributed Systems, 4th Edition (Category Architecture)

    Code of Arch — Recap of Distributed Systems, 4th Edition (Rubric Architecture ) At the beginning of the year, at the Code of Architecture book club, we reviewed the fourth edition of the book. 8 January. We had nine intense issues of an hour and a half each. And then I decided to write. articleIn which he collected all the materials in one place. And for lovers to study the originals separately note that you can download an e-book on website.

  33. · #SoftwareDevelopment

    Migrations - The Hardest Actual Problem in Computer Science • Matt Ranney • YOW! 2022

    Migrations - The Hardest Actual Problem in Computer Science • Matt Ranney • YOW! 2022 Cool. speech Matt Ranney, Principal Engineer from DoorDash For the past couple of years, he has been engaged in a big migration to DoorDash and is willing to share his thoughts. Matt raises the issue that migration is difficult and nobody wants to do it. Everyone prefers to work in greenfield. Then he goes over the following questions.

  34. · #SystemDesign

    Hacking the System Design Interview: Real Big Tech Interview Questions and In-depth Solutions

    Hacking the System Design Interview: Real Big Tech Interview Questions and In-depth Solutions I finally got my hands on 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.

  35. · #Architecture

    Building Evolutionary Architectures (2nd Edition) • Rebecca Parsons, Neal Ford & James Lewis • GOTO 2023

    Building Evolutionary Architectures (2nd Edition) • Rebecca Parsons, Neal Ford & James Lewis • GOTO 2023 It's interview The authors of the book within the framework of the book club goto appeared on time - judging by our survey At the Code of Architecture book club, this is the book we'll start reading in a week. The first edition of the book was far away. 2017 The year was interesting from a conceptual point of view, but raw in content and worse - almost completely lacking tuning to create fitness functions.

  36. · #Staff

    The Staff Engineer's Path - Part I (The Big Picture)

    The Staff Engineer's Path - Part I (The Big Picture) "Staff Engineer's Path" by Tanya Reilly came out at the end of the book. 2022 The theme of Staff+ Engineers is well-researched in Vil Larson’s “Staff Engineer,” which I described in two parts: 1 and 2. And this one article I'm talking about Tanya's book in general, and I also run through the first part, where the author talks about creating a big picture.

  37. · #PopularScience

    Tesla's cat (Il Gatto di Tesla)

    Tesla's cat (Il Gatto di Tesla) This book by Monica Marelli is dedicated to the great inventor, whose whole life was connected with electric current and whose name was given to the unit of induction of the magnetic field. Tesla, and he was, was a man with some oddities, but he could solve engineering problems, but their commercialization was not his forte. In this book, journalist Monica and telepathic cat Sophie travel back in time. 90 years to interview Nikola Tesla and learn firsthand about the rehearsals of his history:

  38. · #мнение

    Weekend thoughts about the limitations of rationality. Intriguing?

    Weekend thoughts about the limitations of rationality. Intriguing? Alexander Polomodov Head of Digital Ecosystem Development at Tinkoff and Speaker of F Up Night South Hub'23 expressed curious мнение He focused on the important aspects of software design.

  39. · #BookCube

    I recently wrote an opinion for SouthHub about a report from a goto conference on cognitive biases in software development.

    I recently wrote an opinion for SouthHub about a report from a goto conference on cognitive biases in software development.

  40. · #Software

    Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%

    Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90% Simple. article According to Amazon Prime Video, Step functions, Lambda functions and S3 storage are not always optimal.) Sometimes it is easier to group work within a single process.

  41. · #SciFi

    Orwell. Biography

    Orwell. Biography Kristen Pierre and Verdier Sebastian created a very beautiful and interesting graphic novel about Eric Blair, better known by his pseudonym as George Orwell. I read George's key works, Animal Farm and1984I was always interested in how his life turned out so that he could write such works. And this biography tells us this:

  42. · #ML

    Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (from semianalysis.com)

    Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (from semianalysis.com ) Interesting. document About the future of AI from one of the researchers at Google, who decided to remain anonymous (since it is claimed that this is a leak). It is interesting to read it in its entirety, but the main idea is that 1) Open-source LLM models are developing rapidly, overtaking the development of closed-source models. (For example, OpenAI and Google) And getting closer in quality.

  43. · #ForKids

    Exam for adolescents

    Exam for adolescents I bought this book by Katerina Murashova and Natalia Krivets for my teenage son, because the book was presented as a simulator game to develop the ability to make the right decisions in a situation of moral choice. Before I gave the book to my son, I read it carefully. 45 I looked at the answers and read the author’s proposed solutions to these situations and I can say that it was quite informative.

  44. · #Comics

    Grisha Blind. Or female logic versus male logic

    Grisha Blind. Or female logic versus male logic Yesterday my wife and I looked through this comic book and laughed at some examples of stereotypes of female and male logic. The story looks something like this. I went to the beauty salon, what do you think? He: You look really good with that hair. She: I didn't change my hair... He: Whoppss. She's Grisha.

  45. · #ML

    Anthology of machine learning (The Deep Learning Revolution)

    Anthology of machine learning (The Deep Learning Revolution) On the first day of May, I read this book. 2018 It was written by Terrence Sejnowski and I really liked it. The author tried to talk about his perception of how the deep learning revolution came about. Moreover, his story is perceived as a personal story of an eyewitness and an active participant, not a journalist who collects materials bit by bit. The book doesn’t contain a grain of code, but it actively mentions areas such as neuroscience, information theory, game theory, and so on.

  46. · #Comics

    Leonardo da Vinci. Revival of peace (Leonard de Vinci, la rennaissance du monde)

    Leonardo da Vinci. Revival of peace (Leonard de Vinci, la rennaissance du monde) This bio graphic novel Marwan Cail wrote and drew Ariel Vittori 500- Anniversary of the great master's legacy (into 2019 year-end 500 years since Leonardo's death). In a novel 4 Parts that are tied to the stages of life. An unusual young man - here we are talking about the early years of Leonardo and getting into the studio of Andrea del Verrochio for training.

  47. · #Learning

    The Amazing AI Super Tutor for Students and Teachers Sal Khan TED

    The Amazing AI Super Tutor for Students and Teachers Sal Khan TED Cool. speech Sal Khan, founder Khan AcademyFuture education in light of current AI achievements. The author says that the LLM model and the GPT-4 This is not a danger to education, but an opportunity. The opportunity to give each student and teacher his personal assistant, who will be able to act as a personal tutor for students, and for teachers to be an assistant who helps to form a training program and spend special time directly on communicating with students.

  48. · #Conference

    SouthHub 2023

    SouthHub 2023 This year I'm going back to campThe second year in a row will be in Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi. He'll pass with 12 along 16 June and there will be tracks of the conference "For real STO", "For future STO" and a lot of sports activities. Last time I gave a talk,Evolution of the role of technical manager from engineer to CTO"and this time I'll be performing at the Fuckup Nights party with a little story about one of the facades, like the one I used to say in the first place." speech about post-mortem culture.

  49. · #AI

    Why AI Is Incredibly Smart — and Shockingly Stupid Yejin Choi TED

    Why AI Is Incredibly Smart — and Shockingly Stupid Yejin Choi TED Interesting. speech Yejin Choi talks about OpenAI’s LLM and GPT models on what they already know and where to dig next. The main message of the talk is that the size of the models gave an impetus to the fact that large language models began to denounce AGI outbreaks. (artificial general intelligence)They lack a common sense understanding. But this thing is like the dark matter of cosmology, where most of the matter is not visible, but it affects what we can see and perceive directly.

  50. · #BookCube

    Voting has begun for a new book to be read as part of the Code of Architecture book club. We will start reading and discussing the book after the May holidays.

    Voting has begun for a new book to be read as part of the Code of Architecture book club. We will start reading and discussing the book after the May holidays.