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Book Cube publications from 2024, page 12: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.

  1. · #Management

    How to Take Great Engineers & Make Them Great Technical Leaders • Courtney Hemphill • GOTO 2017

    How to Take Great Engineers & Make Them Great Technical Leaders • Courtney Hemphill • GOTO 2017 Interesting. speech Technical leaders who have been around for many years:) The author often mentions various sources and the audience has never heard about them – seven years ago I did not know about many of them, but by now I have read all the books and studies that the author mentioned. The presentation structure is very good. The author talks about the things that matter to tech leaders that grow out of an engineer.

  2. · #AB

    Books from DMK Press on experiments and statistics

    Books from DMK Press on experiments and statistics Next week, the Code of Leadership series will be released with Andrey Tsybin, CTO of our product analytics and a/b platform, which we should scale to the entire company this year. In the interview, we discussed product analytics, and we decided to talk about a/b next time. But the topic is key to me. 7.5 Years ago, when I came to Tinkoff, a/b was already part of my responsibilities. It evolved over the years, but was always limited to the web and mobile.

  3. · #Management

    Why Most Data Projects Fail & How to Avoid It • Jesse Anderson • GOTO 2023

    Why Most Data Projects Fail & How to Avoid It • Jesse Anderson • GOTO 2023 Interesting. speech Jesse Anderson, author of Data Teams. The author discusses the key questions to ask when starting projects

  4. · #Leadership

    Layers of Leadership • Lee Campbell • YOW! 2023

    Layers of Leadership • Lee Campbell • YOW! 2023 Interesting. speech Lee Campbell, VP of Engineering at VGW — Leadership challenges The challenges facing leaders: people, delivery, operations . It is important for a leader to work with people. competency (build it right, run it right), performance (right thing, right time) and alignment (right people, right place). Then he moves on to — Start-up challenges Here the author talks about the formation of a team and immerses himself in the challenges of startups.

  5. · #Career

    Winter analytical weekend (Winter Analytical Weekend)

    Winter analytical weekend (Winter Analytical Weekend) Recently. was On the first winter analytical weekend from the creators of the summer analytical festival (LAF). It was a couple of weeks ago, and I participated in a roundtable discussion on the role of the analyst in the modern world. The main motive of this panel discussion was something like this: should the analyst adapt to market trends and the dynamics of changing reality?

  6. · #Brain

    Code of Leadership 7 Your brain at Work

    Code of Leadership 7 Your brain at Work Seventh issue Code of Leadership is about how we make decisions and how our brains work. In this issue, Ernesto Inarkiev came to visit - European chess champion, grandmaster, who is in the TOP.100 the best chess players in the world and in the top30 fast chess. Ernesto created the courseEffective thinkingThe one I did last year that I liked.

  7. · #Theater

    Master and Margarita. (Mhat)

    Master and Margarita. (Mhat) Yesterday, with his eldest son, who this year is already entering the university, went to the production of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. The idea to take his son there appeared when in the last grade of school he became interested in the humanitarian theme and decided to enter the game design at HSE, and also enrolled in the theater club at school:) So we went to the show and I liked it. The famous novel looked classic.

  8. · #SelfDevelopment

    Sports programming (Competitive programming 3)

    Sports programming (Competitive programming 3) I can't go to bookstores because I turn into a shopaholic too easily. As a result, I rarely go there, but today I was invited to visit the conference DevOps Conf in Skolkovo and then I came across a local collapse of books from DMK Press. As a result, I couldn't leave without buying a book on sports programming:) It’s too late for me to play this sport, but it will be interesting to read this book.)

  9. · #SelfDevelopment

    Leetcode - progress in the second month

    Leetcode - progress in the second month I used to. told About my experience with Leetcode, but now another month has passed and I appreciated the quality of the course.Data Structures and Algorithms"which I have so far passed on 40%:) This course really helps to remember the standard techniques and return them to the level of easy and conscious application.

  10. · #Productivity

    [3/3] Developer productivity (Category Productivity)

    \[3/3\] Developer productivity (Rubric Productivity ) Continuing posts 1 and 2 I want to remember what platforms with tools for assessing developer productivity are on the market.

  11. · #Productivity

    [2/3] Developer productivity (Category Productivity)

    \[2/3\] Developer productivity (Rubric Productivity ) Continuing the theme of developer productivity, raised in first paragraphI wanted to think about how this issue is approached around the world. "Accelerate" and DORA metrics

  12. · #Productivity

    [1/3] Developer productivity (Category Productivity)

    \[1/3\] Developer productivity (Rubric Productivity ) In a large company, it is often difficult to understand how effective an organization is. Of course, you can focus on different financial indicators, including Cost to Income Ratio, but they have two features: they are very general and difficult to understand the contribution of individual parts of the organization, and they are very late in time. Therefore, high-level managers usually want a more effective tool.

  13. · #Security

    The State of Application Security 2023 • Sebastian Brandes • GOTO 2023

    The State of Application Security 2023 • Sebastian Brandes • GOTO 2023 Great. report for a Sunday morning about Application security from Sebastian, co-founder and CEO of the startup Heyhack. The report is quite practical in nature and it does not just talk about the basic concepts and give the results of the safety study. 2023 year (It's also very interesting.), but also demo top vulnerabilities:) The report consists of the following parts:

  14. · #ForKids

    Monopoly Junior: Paw Patrol

    Monopoly Junior: Paw Patrol Today my son Kirill, who is all 3 He won me and my wife in Monopoly Junior: Puppy Patrol. In part, this proves how terrible the game design of this game is - it's so random that just throwing away the cube and buying buildings can easily become a tycoon ... eh, if life were that easy. It’s also funny that my wife, Nastya, bought the English version of the game, so our kids won’t be able to play by themselves.

  15. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 6 Staff+ engineers, how we grow them internally and hire them from the market

    Code of Leadership 6 Staff+ engineers, how we grow them internally and hire them from the market Sixth issue Code of Leadership is dedicated to the topic of high grade engineers, which in Western practice are called Staff+. In this issue, the guest is Alexei Tarasov, technical director of social platforms in Tinkoff. We are discussing with Lesha 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.

  16. · #Management

    The first five issues of Code of Leadership

    The first five issues of Code of Leadership Over the past month and a half, there have been five episodes of my Code of Leadership podcast, which you can understand the format and how interesting it is for readers of this channel. Below are the materials on the released series, and in the comments it would be interesting to hear feedback and if there are suggestions for improvements.

  17. · #Management

    How Flow Works & Other Curiosities • James Lewis • YOW! 2023

    How Flow Works & Other Curiosities • James Lewis • YOW! 2023 Interesting. report from James Lewis on the topic of optimization of the value stream in software development. The author begins by remembering what has happened in the past. 15 years (AWS, Android, Git, Continuous Delivery, Microservices, K8s, Platform Engineering, ML &AI). He talks briefly about the theory of queues and Little's law. Author gives references to books

  18. · #Devops

    Continuous Integration: That’s Not What They Meant • Clare Sudbery • GOTO 2023

    Continuous Integration: That’s Not What They Meant • Clare Sudbery • GOTO 2023 Whole. report TBD (trunk based development) Why continuous integration without TBD is not continuous) The main idea is that if the work is carried out in separate long-lived brunches, then the code from different branches is not integrated continuously, but only occasionally, which contradicts CI logic. Although now CI is usually referred to simply as Pipelines, which run to assemble code from individual brunches.

  19. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 5 Project Phoenix

    Code of Leadership 5 Project Phoenix Out. fifth-issue The Code of Leadership podcast, in which I discuss with guests books that are useful for IT executives. This time we are talking about the book “Project Phoenix”, which is written in the genre of a production novel and is similar to the book “Purpose”. ("Goal") or Critical Chain. ("Critical Chain") Goldratta. However, here the main actions take place not in the factory, but in the habitat of it’s employees inside the production company Parts Unlimited.

  20. · #Theater

    Sweeney Todd, the Barber Maniac of Fleet Street (Taganka Theatre)

    Sweeney Todd, the Barber Maniac of Fleet Street (Taganka Theatre) My wife and I were at the Taganka Theatre yesterday. musical The famous barber Sweeney Todd. I liked the interactive format, where visitors sit at tables and all the action takes place between them. Heroes move between tables, sing, sometimes pour or treat cakes:) Since this is a musical, the audience enjoys the music, and since the story is heavy, and black humor. The plot itself is similar to the story of the Count of Monte Cristo, where the main character is obsessed with revenge.

  21. · #ML

    Jeff Dean (Google): Exciting Trends in Machine Learning

    Jeff Dean (Google): Exciting Trends in Machine Learning Interesting. lecture Jeff Dean, which took place two weeks ago at Rice Univerysity, in which Jeff talks about interesting trends in artificial intelligence and machine learning. In fact, it is updated and expanded with 12 A minute to an hour and a half is the version of Jeff's TED talk that I'm talking about. wrote early in the week.

  22. · #ForKids

    Travel to Kostroma (23-24 February)

    Travel to Kostroma (23-24 February) This weekend we spent in Kostroma and tomorrow morning we go back. In that time, we made it.

  23. · #SelfDevelopment

    Flowers for Algernon (Flowers for Algernon)

    Flowers for Algernon (Flowers for Algernon) This is the story of Daniel Keyes, who grew up to a full-fledged novel I remember quite often when I am sick. (This is something I rarely do.). This is the first time I read this book of years. 6 backwards 2018 year (And a few years ago, wrote about him on this channel). Here's a quick extract from this sammari. The format of the presentation in the form of a diary of the main character, whose name is Charlie, allows you to look at the changes in perception from his position.

  24. · #ML

    Jeff Dean: AI isn't as smart as you think -- but it could be TED

    Jeff Dean: AI isn't as smart as you think -- but it could be TED Interesting talk Jeff Dean. He gave a TED talk two years ago about AI, in which he highlighted the development of neural networks. (On the left like now, and on the right where to dig) 1) Separate models -\ General purpose models 2) Image or text or speach -\ All modalities at once 3) Dense models -\ Sparse models Interestingly, these areas are now on everyone’s ears, however, Open AI with its ChatGPT became the leader.

  25. · #Chess

    Lichess.org

    Lichess.org After a course on thinking with Ernesto, about which I told Last year, I regained my interest in chess. This weekend, I signed up for lichess.org and started solving puzzles in my spare time. I remember the sports school that I used to do when I was a kid. And at the same time, this puzzle-solving reminded me of the leetcode problem that I was trying to solve.

  26. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 4 Turn the ship around

    Code of Leadership 4 Turn the ship around Out. podcast "Code of Leadership," in which I discuss with guests books useful for IT executives. This time we are talking about the book “Deploy Your Ship”, which we are disassembling with Ekaterina Shestimerova, who has long been my colleague at Tinkoff and led our educational and devrel activities. He started with software engineering and now he’s back. She is currently a technical project manager and loves her job.

  27. · #BookCube

    Winter Analytics Weekend (WAW)

    Winter Analytics Weekend (WAW) This is the first winter analytical weekend from the creators of the summer analytical festival. (LAF). It's happening this weekend, and I'm taking part in a roundtable discussion on the role of the analyst in today's world. The main motive of this panel discussion was something like this: should the analyst adapt to market trends and the dynamics of changing reality? Three people participated in our discussion.

  28. · #Software

    TellMeAbout.Tech

    TellMeAbout . Tech Channel news

  29. · #Chess

    Carvin in the Chess Forest 1. Chess textbook for junior schoolchildren

    Carvin in the Chess Forest 1. Chess textbook for junior schoolchildren Recently, I bought myself chess at home and for work, as well as a stack of interesting books, and today I decided to tell you about one of them. "Carvin in the Chess Woods" is a comic book, where the rules of the game and the very basics are presented in a game form:) It seems that this is the way to interest my sons with beautiful illustrations and assignments, not the tedious stories of my father about how a pawn or a horse walks.

  30. · #Vacancy

    R&D Lead job opening for AI developer assistant @ Tinkoff

    R&D Lead job opening for AI developer assistant @ Tinkoff In the new year’s Code of Architecture, we spoke About the approaches in RnD in Google and how it looks in Tinkoff. The guests were our colleagues. Igor Maslov, Head of Basic Technologies and Data Processing at Tinkoff Stanislav Moiseev, Director of Engineering Research at Tinkoff

  31. · #SelfDevelopment

    Your Brain at Work (Brain. Instruction for use)

    Your Brain at Work (Brain. Instruction for use) Next week, as part of the next issue of Code of Leadership, I'll be discussing David Rock's book. Your Brain at Work " This book provides insights into how our brain works. The first edition of the book came out. 15 A few years ago, it was translated into Russian as Brain. Instruction for use ".

  32. · #AI

    Analogue Evolution, Digital Revolution: Tipping Points in Technology • Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023

    Analogue Evolution, Digital Revolution: Tipping Points in Technology • Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023 Funny. speech Dylan Beattie on turning points in technology. This was mostly about

  33. · #Processes

    Review of white paper "DevEx in Action"

    Review of white paper "DevEx in Action" I love studying whitepapers in general, and I’m also very interested in the productivity of software development. I read a lot of articles on this topic and today I will tell you a little bit about this article.DevEx in Actionwhich came out in mid-January 2024 years. This article continues the series — "DevEx: What Actually Drives Productivity" 2023 year (review) — "The SPACE of Developer Productivity" 2021 year (review)

  34. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 3 Herding Cats

    Code of Leadership 3 Herding Cats Out. third Podcast "Code of Leadership", which is a talk about the book "How to herd cats", which we discuss with Evgeny Kuzovlev. Zhenya is the technical director of payments at Tinkoff, is a member of the Highload++ Program Committee and is generally well versed in both management and design of complex systems.

  35. · #Math

    Mathematics Lovers' Day

    Mathematics Lovers' Day The qualifying round starts today. competition For students who love mathematics. The application for the participation of the team is submitted by the captain, he also fills out a questionnaire for all team members. Time to solve problems in the qualifying round is limited, so use it wisely. There will be three stages in total:

  36. · #Management

    How to Bake a Change • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023

    How to Bake a Change • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023 Interesting. speech Daniel Terhorst-North on organizational change. The author emphasizes that there is no one-size-fits-all recipe, but that doesn’t mean consultants and methodical firms aren’t lining up to sell it to you:) Often as this universal recipe offer SAFe, LeSS, Spotify model. (Which Spotify has long since outgrown.). An alternative view of this problem is that each organization and context is different, meaning each needs its own unique recipe that you need to figure out from scratch.

  37. · #Management

    Made at Intel

    Made at Intel Just recently, a book by Valery Cherepennikov was published, which was collected from his Series of articles "Made at Intel"which he published on Habre. Although I had read more than half of these articles at the time of publication, I decided I wanted to re-read them as a book and put them in my library. In short, this book is a set of stories, somewhere funny, somewhere sad, sometimes standard, and sometimes outstanding.

  38. · #Management

    Code of Leadership 2 Antifragility in IT

    Code of Leadership 2 Antifragility in IT Out. second The Code of Leadership podcast, in which I discuss with guests books that are useful for IT executives. This time it's about a book.Antifragility in IT"which I discuss with Alexander Byndyu, who wrote it. In addition to the book “Antifragility in IT”, Sasha has a second book.Hypothesis map", as well as he is the founder of Byndyusoft, teacher, methodologist, mentor, speaker of various conferences.

  39. · #Software

    Technology @ Tinkoff

    Technology @ Tinkoff My colleagues did a great job. sectionIt talks about technology inside Tinkoff. Now there is a detailed story about

  40. · #HR

    Hiring in a company and promoting inside

    Hiring in a company and promoting inside I talk a lot about the hiring process and growth within our company. But it seems that before I have not written more about the diff between them, and it would be worth it. The main difference between these processes in Amount of information to make a decision and cost . Now let's dig deeper.

  41. · #SelfDevelopment

    UpTeam @ Tinkoff

    UpTeam @ Tinkoff Last week we had an inside event for experts who are involved in in-house training. The main part of the meeting was held in the form of a panel discussion, where several high-level managers answered a predetermined list of questions, and then bonusly answered questions from the room. The list of questions I found interesting and I decided to share my answers in this channel.

  42. · #BookCube

    Well, a picture from the brandbook of our internal development platform Spirit to the previous post

    Well, a picture from the brandbook of our internal development platform Spirit to previous post

  43. · #Vacancy

    TPM vacancy (technical product manager) IDP (internal developer platform) @ Tinkoff

    TPM vacancy (technical product manager) IDP (internal developer platform) @ Tinkoff Big tech companies at some point in time come to build their development platforms that must consolidate common tools and deliver them consistently to all product teams. Due to this, companies strive to simplify the development of product things, reduce time-to-market, as well as economies of scale. It happened in Tinkoff. 4 Years ago, with the arrival of Igor Maslov, around which the core team began to gather, which later turned into coretech.

  44. · #Processes

    Kanban Method. Basic practice

    Kanban Method. Basic practice I finished reading this book by Leshi Pimenov, which is devoted to the optimization of intangible production processes. Immediately, starting with the cover, Alexey overturns all the basic ideas about Kanban. - It was invented at Toyota. - It has boards and stickers. Limit the amount of unused work. And then there's the build-up from the old kanban to the new one that David J Anderson invented and turned it into Kanban Univerysity. (course-based).

  45. · #Management

    Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager • James Stanier & Gergely Orosz • GOTO 2023

    Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager • James Stanier & Gergely Orosz • GOTO 2023 Interesting. interview on James Stanier, author of Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager transcription.

  46. · #Management

    The Most Powerful Software Development Process Is The Easiest • Dave Farley • GOTO 2024

    The Most Powerful Software Development Process Is The Easiest • Dave Farley • GOTO 2024 It's short. video Dave Farley is dedicated to designing the perfect software development process. Interestingly, Dave himself is a grated kalach, who in ancient times wrote the book Continuous Delivery. (I mean, told)“Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster” is on my shelf. In this video, Dave suggests rejecting current practices and trying to come up with a software development process. from the first principle.

  47. · #ForKids

    Smeshariki's live coloring book. Developing intelligence

    Smeshariki's live coloring book. Developing intelligence In this book from Devar, the authors took the motives of the film "Trone" 1982 Years of release and brought them to the world of Smeshariki. At the very beginning of the book, Kar-Karych forgot the password from his computer, but the Hedgehog comes to his aid. The hedgehog enters a password, and then it is sucked into a computer game with a lot of tasks in augmented reality. Children will have to help the Hedgehog solve riddles, win in logical games and not only.

  48. · #Software

    Algorithms: Construction and Analysis (Introduction to Algorithms)

    Algorithms: Construction and Analysis (Introduction to Algorithms) I bought this brick by Corman, Lazerson and Rivest back in the day. 2002 I thought I could be a master of algorithms. This was the first edition of the book with a white cover and then there were three co-authors. I enjoyed studying this book at the time, but in my first year at university, I didn’t have a personal computer, so I had to write a pseudocode on a piece of paper and wander around in my head.

  49. · #Software

    GraphQL: The Documentary

    GraphQL: The Documentary A year and a half ago I looked at it. this documentary The study of whitepaper "Continuous Deployment of Mobile Software at Fb (Showcase\)"to which I have written a brief Sammari on her blog. To summarize briefly, somewhere before 2012 The company that created GraphQL was heading towards the web in the mobile, but it became clear that the HTML5 in the mobile was not working at the time. Then they decided to switch to native development and it became clear that the old APIs do not help in the development of native applications.

  50. · #Software

    Trends of gamification - air South HUB

    Trends of gamification - air South HUB I am often asked to talk and talk. And I especially like when I can come not by myself, but to advise someone more relevant from my colleagues. And that. on the South Hub about gamification I recommended calling my colleague, Vadim Goncharov, who directs the development of games and special projects. By the way, Vadim recently on YaTalks. told It's about the way the guys did the awards game.