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Book Cube publications from 2024, page 11: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.

  1. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 3 “Generes and styles. How to find a topic for a non-fiction book. Expert Olga Kiseleva

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 3 “Generes and styles. How to find a topic for a non-fiction book. Expert Olga Kiseleva Continuing a series of posts about your book writing training (See previous posts: 1 and 2)I'll talk about the third lesson. He was devoted to how to decide on the topic of his non-fiction book. Below are the highlights I learned from this lesson.

  2. · #Writing

    Where fantastic ideas live (The Idea. The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction)

    Where fantastic ideas live (The Idea. The Seven Elements of a Viable Story for Screen, Stage or Fiction) A couple of years ago, I read Eric Bork's book Where Fantastic Ideas Live, which is about writing and writing. And this week she was advised as part of a book writing course:) The point is that in this book, Eric Bork, winner of 2 Emmys and 2 Golden Globe Awards, explains why the idea is so important and shows what seven criteria a cool idea should meet, highlighting the discussion of each characteristic in a separate chapter:

  3. · #Software

    Tinkoff CTF (Capture the Flag)

    Tinkoff CTF (Capture the Flag) Continuing with the subject of engineering, I would like to talk about the competition. capture the flag at Tinkoff, which will take place in 20-21 April. The announcement of the competition begins with such a setup You are in a tesseract – the Hypercube, where parallel worlds intersect, time flows and stops, and each facet holds the secrets of the infinite Universe.

  4. · #SelfDevelopment

    Leetcode - first quarter progress

    Leetcode - first quarter progress Continue my series of posts about my experience with Leetcode (look 1, 2 and 3). I finished the first quarter with leetcode.

  5. · #Software

    I came across a post in Valery Cherepennikov’s channel about his friend Ilya Lebedev, who, being blind, is working to increase the availability of information and communication technologies for all.

    I came across Valery Cherepennikov's channel on posture Ilya Lebedev, who is blind, works to increase the availability of information and communication technologies for all citizens of Russia without exception. Ilya can. support at the contest "Russia - the land of opportunities", voting for him in the nomination "IT and AI". By the way, I subscribe to Valeria's channel from his series of articles about the history of Intel, which he recently released as a book. Made at Intel which I have read and which I have already read. told. P.S.

  6. · #Culture

    Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to Succeed in Today's Exponential World • Barry O’Reilly • YOW! 2018

    Why Great Leaders Must Unlearn to Succeed in Today's Exponential World • Barry O’Reilly • YOW! 2018 Interesting. speech Unlearn: Let go of past success to achieve extraordinary results. This book offers a three-step process for leaders. 1. Unlearn the behaviors and mindsets that keep them and their businesses from moving forward. 2. Relearn new skills, strategies, and innovations that are transforming the world every day. 3. Break through old habits and thinking by opening up to new ideas and perspectives while achieving extraordinary results.

  7. · #Security

    Banking Cybersecurity: Battling DeepFakes & AI-powered Scammers - George Proorocu - at NDC Security in Oslo, Norway

    Banking Cybersecurity: Battling DeepFakes & AI-powered Scammers - George Proorocu - at NDC Security in Oslo, Norway Interesting. speech George from the Dutch bank ING about security in the age of deepfakes and AI, which can be used by scammers. Geord is considering 4 script:

  8. · #Management

    [2/2] Predictable Irrationality (Predictably Irrational. The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions) (Category Management)

    \[2/2\] Predictable Irrationality (Predictably Irrational. The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions) (Rubric Management ) Continue. prior In this book, I am talking about the other chapters: 7. The problem of procrastination and self-control Here the author tells stories about the study and homework of students. (And like defaulting behavior, it's trying to pull things off for last.). Then there's health care and proactive problem solving, which few people practice.

  9. · #ProductManagement

    Code of Leadership 12 Interview about the Spirit platform (Internal developer platform) Tinkoff

    Code of Leadership 12 Interview about the Spirit platform (Internal developer platform) Tinkoff In twelfth edition of the podcast I talk to Dima Gaevsky, Technical CPO (Chief Product Owner) Our internal development platform Spirit. Dima talks about his way to Tinkoff, a little about the development and a lot about the creation and development of platform solutions. For 45 We talked about it for a minute.

  10. · #Management

    [1/2] Predictable Irrationality (Predictably Irrational. The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions) (Category Management)

    \[1/2\] Predictable Irrationality (Predictably Irrational. The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions) (Rubric Management ) I read a book this weekend. Dan Ariely (Dan Ariely)This is about our decision-making process. This book was predictably excellent, as I had already seen most of the material. 10 years ago, his courseA Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior" on edx.org. Dan also had a cool TEDTalk.Are we in control of our own decisions?" 15 years after the first edition of this book. Predictably Irrational ".

  11. · #Software

    Tools and practices to help you deal with legacy code - Dennis Doomen - NDC Porto 2023

    Tools and practices to help you deal with legacy code - Dennis Doomen - NDC Porto 2023 Interesting. speech To work with the legacy of the past, or more simply. Get in the code. In this talk, the author cites an algorithm of his actions as a consultant who is called to study archaeology around legacy systems. The algorithm seemed interesting to me, so I decided to write it down briefly. Dennis begins with a sales analysis, including a study of running processes and their configuration.

  12. · #Software

    Teaching children programming

    Teaching children programming Recently, I discussed the topic of teaching children programming and decided to remember how I approached this with my eldest son Pasha, who never became a programmer, but decided to go into game design:) Actually, I'm years old. 10 I’ve been working on projects like Scratch and Lego Mindstorm. — Scratch MIT is a visual programming language and web IDE for development.

  13. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 2 “Target audience and their book creation needs. Expert Olga Arkhipova

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 2 “Target audience and their book creation needs. Expert Olga Arkhipova Continuing a series of posts about your book writing training (Look ahead. posture)I'll talk about the second lesson. It was devoted to a related topic of marketing, however, in terms of the book market in general, as well as potential books of students of the course:)

  14. · #Writing

    Yandex. Zen. How to Create Your Blog and Make It Popular

    Yandex. Zen. How to Create Your Blog and Make It Popular Yesterday I decided to read a book from Anna Denisova about how to blog in Zen (The book was written back in the days when it belonged to Yandex.). I won’t say that I learned something new about creating a blog, but I can’t help but mention the good structure of the book.

  15. · #Management

    Ex-technology companies

    Ex-technology companies Interesting. posture Will Larson asks what criteria a company must meet to be considered a technology company. What happens when a company fails to meet these criteria? Will Larson identifies two criteria:

  16. · #Career

    Code of leadership 11 Interview about system analysts in Tinkoff

    Code of leadership 11 Interview about system analysts in Tinkoff In 11 podcast I am discussing the profession of system analysts with Kirill Krainev, technical director of the marketing technology department. Kirill talks about his journey to Tinkoff, a bit about marketing, and a lot about the systems analysts he oversees at the company.

  17. · #SciFi

    Dune (dune)

    Dune (dune) I visited last week. second-partWhat Denis Villeneuve did. I liked the film with its visual effects, where the planet Arrakis looks like a real one, the actors play the characters perfectly, the frame has dynamics and events. But if I didn’t know the original source of Frank Herbert’s books, it would be difficult for me to understand the intricacies of events. In addition to watching the movie, I recommend reading books: Dune is the first book in the series to receive prize) into 1966 same year nebula.

  18. · #Processes

    Architecture Modernization: Aligning Software, Strategy, and Structure - Nick Tune

    Architecture Modernization: Aligning Software, Strategy, and Structure - Nick Tune Interesting. speech About software modernization in large companies that face difficulties in legacy systems:) Such companies often have steep advantages: market share, brand reputation and customer loyalty. Therefore, it makes sense to modernize the system and the author speaks with the definition Architecture Modernization is about converting architecture from a competitive disadvantage to a competitive advantage. His approach then contains three points.

  19. · #Writing

    [2/2] Facility 4 - Lesson. 1 Anyone can see their name on the cover. (Category Writing)

    \[2/2\] Facility 4 - Lesson. 1 Anyone can see their name on the cover. (Rubric Writing ) Continue. priorTalk about the content of the first lesson on writing a book 😍 Installation of text Even if the text does not turn out to be quite perfect, then it is necessary to work on it systematically and correct shortcomings and gradually improve. 9) Internal support and importance of the text for the author It is important for the author to realize that this text is necessary for himself, and not only external manifestations of success.

  20. · #Writing

    [1/2] Facility 4 - Lesson. 1 Anyone can see their name on the cover. (Category Writing)

    \[1/2\] Facility 4 - Lesson. 1 Anyone can see their name on the cover. (Rubric Writing ) Last week, the first introductory lesson of the course was held for aspiring authors who plan to write and publish a book:) This lesson was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that was supposed to inspire participants and give them confidence in their abilities. Ekaterina Zvontsova and Renat Shagabutdinov simultaneously talked about non-fiction and fiction. The following topics were considered:

  21. · #Management

    [1/2] Developer Joy – How great teams get s% t done - Sven Peters - NDC Porto 2023 (Category Management)

    \[1/2\] Developer Joy – How great teams get s%\ t done - Sven Peters - NDC Porto 2023 (Rubric Management ) Interesting. speech from Sven Peters Developer productivity, developer experience and developer joy:) The author begins by going back in time and recalls Taylor and his scientific approach to factory management. True, the same type of work on the conveyor was carried out there, but by measuring the time of performing various activities, Taylor was able to optimize tools, rest time and other things to increase the efficiency of the plant at times.

  22. · #Management

    [2/2] Developer Joy – How great teams get s% t done - Sven Peters - NDC Porto 2023 (Category Management)

    \[2/2\] Developer Joy – How great teams get s%\ t done - Sven Peters - NDC Porto 2023 (Rubric Management ) The beginning of the review of this presentation is in first-post. And here you need to talk about the use of regular surveys of developers to find out their opinion on various aspects of the work. The survey results help identify areas that need improvement and discuss them with the team.

  23. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 10 - An Elegant Puzzle - System of Engineering Management (Category Management)

    Code of Leadership 10 - An Elegant Puzzle - System of Engineering Management (Rubric Management ) In Tenth Edition of Code of Leadership An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (beginning release 9)Which I'm talking about. told. This book was written by Will Larson, CTO of Carta, who previously worked at Calm, Stripe and Uber. In this book, the author discusses approaches to engineering management. We continue to work with Eugene Sergueev, senior engineering manager at Flo Health, a women’s health app. Zhenya has more.

  24. · #Math

    Understanding Statistics and Experimental Design. How to Not Lie With Statistics (Statistics and Experiment Planning for the Uninitiated)

    Understanding Statistics and Experimental Design. How to Not Lie With Statistics (Statistics and Experiment Planning for the Uninitiated) This book is suitable even for beginners - the authors did their best to convey the basics of statistics as simply as possible, with a minimum of formulas and maximum meaning. If you’ve ever heard magic words like a/b tests, stats, t-criteria, p-value and wanted to understand what that means, this is the book for you.

  25. · #OpenSource

    Node.js: The Documentary An origin story

    Node.js: The Documentary An origin story Yesterday on the Honeypot channel came out hour-long documentary The history of Node.js.

  26. · #Software

    Patterns of Distributed Systems • Unmesh Joshi & James Lewis • GOTO 2024

    Patterns of Distributed Systems • Unmesh Joshi & James Lewis • GOTO 2024 Cool. interview Unmesh Joshi He is the author of Patterns of Distributed Systems. Transcript available here. Communication consists of the following points

  27. · #Writing

    Workshop No 4 myth

    Workshop No 4 myth This week, I started training atFor those who dream of publishing a book" I don't have it at my dream level, but rather at the task level for this year.) I signed myself up for it back in October.

  28. · #Analytics

    Statist – Product Analytics Platform

    Statist – Product Analytics Platform We have appeared on tinkoff.ru article about our product analytics platform Statist, which we discussed with Andrey Tsybin in the issue Code of Leadership 8. The article was written by Andrew himself.

  29. · #Conference

    Infobesity - How to Cope with the Overload of Information • Fabio Nudge • YOW! 2023

    Infobesity - How to Cope with the Overload of Information • Fabio Nudge • YOW! 2023 Interesting. report fatty (informational obesity) from Fabio Nudge He is the author of Digital Nudge. Fabio's story consists of the following parts: The author recalls behavioral economics and recommends the books Thinking Fast & Slow, Predictably Irrational, Nudge.

  30. · #SRE

    Why Is My App SLOw? Defining Reliability in Platform Engineering • Jez Humble • YOW! 2023

    Why Is My App SLOw? Defining Reliability in Platform Engineering • Jez Humble • YOW! 2023 Cool. speech Jez Humble talks about how to determine that the platform has problems, not the consumers who use it. Jez now runs SRE on Google’s serverless platform, which has a large number of customers with different load profiles, different latency metrics, and so on. In this configuration, there is a problem in separating client load problems from platform problems. But the guys at Google did it using their mathematical stats.

  31. · #Physics

    The story of the future. What awaits the Earth, the Universe and humanity billions of years later

    The story of the future. What awaits the Earth, the Universe and humanity billions of years later A very beautiful and exciting book for schoolchildren on what awaits our Earth, our Sun, our Milky Way galaxy and our Universe in the future. Once upon a time, I was a schoolboy and myself enjoyed reading stories in libraries about the birth of the universe, the appearance of stars and other interesting objects, preferably with a twist: Giants who live fast and end their lives colorfully

  32. · #Engineering

    Code of Leadership 9 - An Elegant Puzzle - System of Engineering Management (portion 1)

    Code of Leadership 9 - An Elegant Puzzle - System of Engineering Management (portion 1) Ninth Edition of Code of Leadership This book is called “An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management.” told. This book was written by Will Larson, CTO of Carta, who previously worked at Calm, Stripe and Uber. In this book, the author discusses approaches to engineering management. The book itself is discussed with Eugene Sergueev, senior engineering manager at Flo Health, a women's health app. Zhenya has more.

  33. · #SciFi

    1984. Graphic novel

    1984. Graphic novel I’ve read George Orwell’s novel a few times, but when Nesti Fido’s graphic version appeared, I decided to read it... and I didn’t miss it. Amazing illustrations perfectly convey the gloomy world of Oceania, or rather London. We see the life of the protagonist, Winston Smith, which takes place within the walls of the Ministry of Truth, where he is engaged in the falsification of historical documents that contain facts that contradict party propaganda. To do this, he elegantly uses newspeak and practices doublethink.

  34. · #Management

    Software development engineers in tech companies

    Software development engineers in tech companies Yesterday I spoke at a conference.IT PurpleConf"with a presentation for students about the current expectations of software development engineers in technology companies." The performance itself will not be broadcast soon, so I recorded it near the night. podcasting And uploaded to his YouTube channel TellMeAboutTech:) More about the topics of the speech in yesterday's post There is also a list of recommended materials.

  35. · #Data

    The 12 Factor App for Data • James Bowkett • GOTO 2023

    The 12 Factor App for Data • James Bowkett • GOTO 2023 Interesting. speech James Bowkett on the topic of good approaches to working with data. In the title he makes a reference to 12 factor, which at one time formulated the guys from Heroku and which became a harbinger of the approaches of cloud native applications. James offers 12 Factors that will help to make the pipeline work with data, which is often called big data and used to train ML models, better:) I liked James’ principles and especially the way he structured them.

  36. · #Management

    What is the role of SDE in tech companies?

    What is the role of SDE in tech companies? Today I speak at our event for students from MIPT, where I studied many years ago. I have half an hour to discuss a lot of things: Modern development processes and engineering practices in Russian tech companies - I will tell you about how it all began, then there was a story with devops, then shift-left everything and X+Ops:)

  37. · #Theater

    The rock opera Karamazovy

    The rock opera Karamazovy Were with my wife yesterday rock opera And we loved it. To be honest, I did not think that Dostoevsky could be put like this:) On the one hand, we have minimalism on the stage, and on the other, the entire hour and a half while the production is going on, you are immersed in music and easily focus on the main character of each scene and fall into his performance. Each artist performed his part perfectly and I enjoyed going to the theater on Friday night after a difficult week.)

  38. · #SRE

    Taxi reliability tools \ Alexander Fisher, Yandex Taxi

    Taxi reliability tools Alexander Fischer, Yandex Taxi Interesting. speech Alexander Fischer on processes and tools to improve reliability The presentation is short and consists of six parts. 1. Taxi and reliability Introductory about the criticality of taxi services, the load profile, briefly about the architecture, the technologies used. More about reliability metrics:

  39. · #BookCube

    Illustrations about whitepaper "Practitioners guide to MLOps" (1 and 2)

    Illustrations about whitepaper "Practitioners guide to MLOps" (1 and 2)

  40. · #ML

    [2/2] Practitioners guide to MLOps: A framework for continuous delivery and automation of machine learning (Category ML)

    \[2/2\] Practitioners guide to MLOps: A framework for continuous delivery and automation of machine learning (Rubric ML ) Continue. first this whitepaperIt is necessary to tell about the capabilities of ML platforms that are needed in order to build good MLOps processes:

  41. · #ML

    [1/2] Practitioners guide to MLOps: A framework for continuous delivery and automation of machine learning (Category ML)

    \[1/2\] Practitioners guide to MLOps: A framework for continuous delivery and automation of machine learning (Rubric ML ) Regular readers of the channel may have noticed that I often talk about engineering processes and mention one way or another DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering. But the term DevOps, which was about the convergence of development and operation, very quickly appeared similar in meaning terms, but from their fields: DevSecOps, DataOps, FinOps, ..., MLOps. More information about these metamorphoses can be found in the report.

  42. · #Architect

    Gregor Hohpe (AWS Senior Principal Evangelist and author of popular books)

    Gregor Hohpe (AWS Senior Principal Evangelist and author of popular books) Continuing with the previous post report Build Abstractions Not Illusions I wanted to talk about Gregory, who 1) More. 20 I wrote a book years ago. Enterprise Integration Patterns "which I'm talking about." told. This book described patterns of integration and so far the concepts from it are quite useful. 2) He worked at Google and now works at AWS in FaaS.

  43. · #Conference

    Build Abstractions Not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe • YOW! 2023

    Build Abstractions Not Illusions • Gregor Hohpe • YOW! 2023 In this report Gregor Hohpe It talks about abstractions and their benefits, and how excessive abstraction and exclusion of important things leads to illusions. (and flowing abstractions).

  44. · #Management

    Audio podcast "Code of Leadership" on Y.Music

    Audio podcast "Code of Leadership" on Y.Music Many people asked for an audio podcast in a convenient place. I first started it on podster.fm, and then filled out an application to Yandex Music to add a podcast and ... forgot about it. But the guys from J.Music have not forgotten. Yesterday, after another comment on Youtube on the topic that you need an audio version in VK or Yandex Music, I decided to check how my application is and I saw that it was a good idea.

  45. · #Engineering

    Modern Platform Engineering: 9 Secrets of Generative Teams • Liz Fong-Jones • GOTO 2023

    Modern Platform Engineering: 9 Secrets of Generative Teams • Liz Fong-Jones • GOTO 2023 Interesting. report from Liz Fong-Jones, Field CTO from Honeycomb. Liza first remembers what DevOps is, then SRE, and then moves on to Platform Engineering. In the part about devops we are talking about the desire for culture, automation, lean, measurement and sharing. Dora metrics measure how well teams do. But these metrics have a number of problems:

  46. · #Career

    Internships at Tinkoff (Tinkoff Start)

    Internships at Tinkoff (Tinkoff Start) Opened. fellowship Tinkoff. This time, the set goes to 16 Directions: ML-development, Java, Python, Go, SRE, .NET, Scala, Android, iOS, Frontend, QA, DWH, Analytics, Marketing, Design, assistant personal manager in Investments. Internships are paid and during them you will work on real tasks, you will have a mentor who will help you adapt, and the best interns will be invited to the company.

  47. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 8 Interview with Andrey Tsybin about Statist (product analytics)

    Code of Leadership 8 Interview with Andrey Tsybin about Statist (product analytics) In Eighth Edition of Code of Leadership I spoke with my colleague, Andrey Tsybin, CTO of product analytics and a/b platform in Tinkoff. In this interview, Andrey recalls how he began his career in the company, how he got involved with Statist, which was originally intended for performance metrics, and then became a full-fledged replacement for Amplitude and the de facto standard at Tinkoff.

  48. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 6 Staff+ Engineers, Architecture and SDLC

    Code of Leadership 6 Staff+ Engineers, Architecture and SDLC They just sit down and write an article with decryption Our communication with Lesha Tarasov about engineers of high grades, which in Western practice are called Staff+. In this issue, Lesha and I discussed what the SDE matrix looks like. (software development engineer)What development tracks engineers have, what the process of growth looks like inside and hiring employees outside.

  49. · #Management

    Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne • GOTO 2023

    Is Software Engineering Real Engineering? • Hillel Wayne • GOTO 2023 It's speech Hillel Wayne He tries to answer the philosophical question: a software engineer is a trembling creature or has the right to be called an engineer.) This question came from quotes by computer scientists like Gerald Weinberg. If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. On the subject of this quote, the author recalls leftpad.

  50. · #Management

    Practical Guide to Statistical Process Management

    Practical Guide to Statistical Process Management I read this book by Yuri Adler and Vladimir Shper for several weeks. It is not that the book is boring, but rather that it is difficult to understand and requires an understanding of statistics and systems thinking. The authors promote the use of Shuhart’s control cards, which were popularized by Shuhart himself and his colleague Deming, who had a hand in the Japanese economic miracle. All this fits into the Schuhart-Deming PDCA cycle (plan - do - check - act). The book itself consists of eight chapters.