Book Cube: 2024, page 13
Book Cube publications from 2024, page 13: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Management
Code of Leadership - Episode ? - Antifragility in IT by Sasha Byndyu
Code of Leadership - Episode ? - Antifragility in IT by Sasha Byndyu I thought as part of my podcast, it would be interesting not just to invite guests and discuss their favorite books. Sometimes it is cool to call the authors of books and discuss their work with them. This is the series we will record with Sasha Byndyu next week in the book "Antifragility in IT". The deal was easy enough. Sasha and I have known each other before.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Leetcode - progress in the first month
Leetcode - progress in the first month I already am. told How to buy a premium LeetCode subscription for your birthday (3 January ) And a couple of courses from there. ("Data Structures and AlgorithmsandSystem Design for Interviews and Beyond"). Now is the time to report this month: It turned out that the hands forgot about the same as writing in all languages, so I decided to remember Python for algorithmic problems.
- · #Management
Professional communities in large companies
Professional communities in large companies Appeared. record There were meetings of the channel about professional communities in Rosbank, where I discussed last week. The following wonderful people participated in the meeting besides me:
- · #SoftwareDevelopment
Java Weekend Offer @ Tinkoff
Java Weekend Offer @ Tinkoff We in Tinkoff periodically hold events where you can get a job with us over the weekend. Another one. event It's gonna be this weekend. (3-4 February) and 17-18 February. As part of such events, several teams usually bring vacancies and mainly conduct interviews. This time there are guys from my unit that are developing. Marketing platform . This platform is a set of products through which we connect with customers through a variety of marketing channels. Every customer of the bank is our user.
- · #Management
Programmer’s Apprentice Season 2: Future Directions in AI-assisted Coding • Erik Meijer • YOW! 2023
Programmer’s Apprentice Season 2: Future Directions in AI-assisted Coding • Erik Meijer • YOW! 2023 Interesting. speech the future of development in which Erik Meijer , Director of Engineering at Facebook, makes the claim that we are the last generation to write code with our hands:) This is not the sadness of the author of the report, but rather he is delighted and inspired by the opportunity.
- · #Management
Turn your ship around. (Turn the Ship Around!)
Turn your ship around. (Turn the Ship Around!) I read this interesting book about leadership in a few days. The whole book is the story of the captaincy of David Marquet, who tells about his approach, with which he turned the submarine Santa Fe from the worst to the best in just a few years. David describes his approach as a transition from a “leader-followers” model to a “leader-leaders” model. To this end, he highlights three key themes.
- · #Software
The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems • Suhail Patel • YOW! 2023
The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems • Suhail Patel • YOW! 2023 It's very interesting. speech Suhail Patel, Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo. It’s about how latency numbers have changed. (lookLatency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know") productivity in general in recent years. Importantly, these changes directly affect the design and operation of large-scale and loaded systems.
- · #ForKids
gruffalo (The Gruffalo)
gruffalo (The Gruffalo) This Julia Donaldson Children's Book Is Perfect for Kids 3 before 7 years. The plot of the book is based on a Chinese fairy tale about a girl and a tiger: due to the fact that the tiger followed the girl, she thought that all the animals were afraid of her, although in fact they were afraid of the tiger. But in this story, the main characters are a mouse and Gruffalo, who was originally kind of invented by Mouse so that he would not be eaten by animals in the forest.
- · #Management
Michael Gervais The First Rule of Mastery Talks at Google
Michael Gervais The First Rule of Mastery Talks at Google In this interview Michael Gervais He wrote about his book, The First Rule of Mastery, in the subtitle of which the main idea is given. stop worrying about what people think of you " Michael Gervais has a PhD in psychology and works with record-breaking athletes and Olympiad winners, musicians, CEOs of large companies. In his book, he gives a guide to overcoming our fears of other people’s opinions. ( fear of people’s opinions ) Or FOPO for short.
- · #Writing
Made to stick. Why some ideas survive and others die (Made to Stick. Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die)
Made to stick. Why some ideas survive and others die (Made to Stick. Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die) In this book, the authors are fascinating about how to make your ideas sticky. This will allow your important ideas to make their way. The authors first talk about their acronym. SUCCESs :
- · #Management
Vacancy lead SRE team in the social platform
Vacancy lead SRE team in the social platform Late last year, I was teasing changes within my Customer Interfaces, Marketing and Engagement unit. And today I wanted to tell you about vacancy Lead to one of the newly formed departments under these changes. This is the governance in which we combined all of our social services and most of the UGC. (user generated content) In one large department, it included: Pulse is one of the largest social networks for investors;
- · #Management
Audio podcast "Code of Leadership"
Audio podcast "Code of Leadership" Yesterday, I started an audio version of the podcast and posted the first episode on podster.fmLater it will appear on Yandex Music. So now you can just listen to the podcast instead of straining and looking at illustrations from books:) By the way, in the next couple of weeks I plan to record two more episodes: In fact, I already have a guest list approaching a six-month download on streams once a week:) Plus, I collected all the materials for the first episode in the article blog.
- · #Software
AWS re:Invent 2023 - [LAUNCH] Achieving scale with Amazon Aurora Limitless Database (DAT344)
[AWS re:Invent 2023 - \[LAUNCH\] Achieving scale with Amazon Aurora Limitless Database (DAT344\)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9FfjuVJ9d8) Continuing yesterday themeI recommend you to watch interesting. speech from the guys at AWS about a meaningful upgrade to their Aurora database, which we're somehow debate in the bonus edition of the "Code of Architecture" whitepaper from 2017 years. Now the guys have added scaling capabilities to this database. And here the focus was on scaling write load, since with the read load, this base was already well.
- · #Software
Consistency models (Consistency Models) Jepsen
Consistency models (Consistency Models) Jepsen Continuing a series of posts about consistency (CAP theorem, proof, PACELC) I would like to recommend you to get acquainted with picture from Jepsen It conducts hardcore database tests. This image shows two parallel branches serializable and linearizable, where the first grows from the RDBMS transaction isolation models, and the second from the atomic value read/write models. It's funny when they meet at the top level of strict serializable. Separately, Jepsen gives links to two whitepapers
- · #Devrel
Techno voice of Tinkoff
Techno voice of Tinkoff Yesterday we had another annual elephant handout from the devrel direction, where I received a prize in the “Techno Voice” nomination for my overall contribution to the popularization of our IT.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Paolo Gallo The Seven Games of Leadership Talks at Google
Paolo Gallo The Seven Games of Leadership Talks at Google Interesting. video In the Talks at Google series, Paolo Gallo talks about his book, The Seven Games of Leadership: Navigating the Inner Journey of Leaders, published a month ago. He was Chief Human Resources Officer at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, was Chief Learning Officer at The World Bank in Washington, D.C., and Director of HR at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.
- · #Vacancy
Vacancies in the team Statist (product analysis)
Vacancies in the team Statist (product analysis) At Tinkoff, we develop an internal product analytics platform called Statist and provide the necessary toolkit that allows you to collect customer events and telemetry from all web and mobile applications in Tinkoff. Visualize data in the form of analytical reports and metrics.
- · #Management
Code of Leadership 1 - Team topologies
Code of Leadership 1 - Team topologies Out. first This is my new engineering management book podcast. I decided to start this project with the popular book Team Topologies, for the analysis of which I called Stanislav Chalup, who for many years acted as a technical product manager and engineering manager, engaged in the development of IDP. (internal developer platform). For several years Stas and I have worked together and he has done a lot for the success of the changes I have talked about at various conferences.
- · #Chess
Chess and Go
Chess and Go I recently moved into a new apartment and then we all moved into a new office in Tinkoff. I like the way the new office is designed and the fact that I get to it by taxi. 15 I usually have coffee with my colleagues before the start of the day. I go to work every day and sometimes I want to play something intellectual with my colleagues, so I decided to start putting together a gentleman's kit. Chess + watches for time control - I think I can move pieces even now, despite the fact that I have not been engaged in them for a long time.
- · #ForKids
Do you like dinosaurs? (Do you love dinosaurs?)
Do you like dinosaurs? (Do you love dinosaurs?) Our three-year-old Kiryusha confidently answers "Yes" to the question posed in the title of the book. That's why this children's book was on our shelf. It is written with humor and the text is accompanied by beautiful and understandable illustrations, and they are suitable for children from the age of three. It all starts with a long time ago. galaxy far, far away There were incredible creatures on Earth. (From which only birds have remained until now.) ...
- · #Leadership
Turn the Ship Around L. David Marquet Talks at Google
Turn the Ship Around L. David Marquet Talks at Google I saw something interesting today. speech on the topic of leadership David Marquet He is a former captain of an American submarine and the author of the best-selling book “Turn the Ship Around”. In this book, the author recounts his experience as captain of the USS Santa Fe, which once held the last place in terms of retention and operation. He was transferred to this submarine with another, where he was also a captain, but here he had to face a new submarine, which he did not know thoroughly.
- · #Management
Antifragility in IT. How to achieve results in IT projects under conditions of uncertainty
Antifragility in IT. How to achieve results in IT projects under conditions of uncertainty I read Alexander Byndyu’s book in a couple of days and I had very mixed feelings about the book.
- · #Software
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook React.js: The Documentary
How A Small Team of Developers Created React at Facebook React.js: The Documentary I saw an interesting one recently. documentary About how React came to be. Given its current popularity and the fact that this library appeared in one of the bigtech companies, it can be assumed that success was a foregone conclusion. But from this documentary you will learn that this was not the case at all.
- · #Software
Tinkoff QA Series
Tinkoff QA Series I love watching documentaries. It's funny that Tinkoff started filming them, too. premiere Show it in theaters. Today, we are talking about a documentary about our development processes and practices, as well as their evolution with the help of 2017 years to the present. And they understand from the point of view of qa-engineers who 2017 During the year, they were mainly engaged in manual testing, and by now they were out of hand and focused on automated testing.
- · #Charity
Charitable Foundation "Academy of Life" participates in the Tinkoff program "Cashback for Good" т
Charitable Foundation "Academy of Life" participates in the Tinkoff program "Cashback for Good" 🏦 I used to. told about the charity fundAcademy of Life" where my wife works. And now this fund has been added to the social service "Cashback for Good" inside Tinkoff, where customers can donate their cashback to charities of their choice. I haven’t talked about this service before, but it works very easily.
- · #Management
Code of Leadership 1 - Team topologies
Code of Leadership 1 - Team topologies Last night I recorded the first episode of my personal Code of Leadership project. Each episode focuses on one book on engineering management. In each episode there is a guest expert who can offer his favorite book on management for discussion. The episode usually lasts an hour and a half and can be accompanied by schemes from the book or be purely in the colloquial genre.
- · #Career
Winter Analytics Weekend (WAW)
Winter Analytics Weekend (WAW) In a month, I will be speaking at a roundtable on options for the development of system analysts. WAWWinter Event by LAF Organizers (summer analytical festival). The event itself will take place over the weekend. 17-18 February 2024 GOPARK HOTEL, which is located in the suburbs. The topic itself is not new to me - once I worked as a systems analyst for a short time, and relatively recently I have already talked about the development of analysts in the following posts.
- · #BoardGame
Startup board game
Startup board game Yesterday I had guests and we sat so well that we even had time to play a board "Startup", which is more than that. 10 years ago invented Mosigra and Habra guys. This game is about a small IT business, when you create your own studio, recruit a team, commit to its IT projects. In the game, you need to be able to assess labor costs, work with risks, negotiate, recruit and reduce a team, meet deadlines ... in general, everything is very similar to work:) The mechanics in the game are pretty simple:
- · #ForKids
Who glows in the dark (Creatures Glowing in the Dark)
Who glows in the dark (Creatures Glowing in the Dark) I read this book with my son today about animals with bioluminescence that allow them to glow:) Interestingly, Kirill, who is only three years old, was already familiar with Noktylyuka from other books. (night-light), anglers, glowing octopuses and squids, as well as other sea creatures - this led to the fact that he listened to other animals with great interest.
- · #PopularScience
The Relativity of Determining the Best
The Relativity of Determining the Best I once wrote about the book "Scientists Joke." (posts 1 and 2)Which I really liked. And I decided to buy more humorous books from this series and bought a book called Chess Players. and win. There are many jokes of world champions, contenders, grandmasters, as well as celebrities from other fields who loved chess. But there is no funny story in this book that I liked. It is dedicated to the second world champion, Emanuel Lasker, who owned the crown. 27 frontier 19 and 20 century. And here's the story.
- · #PlatformEngineering
Internal platform for development and developers: what does a business pay for?
Internal platform for development and developers: what does a business pay for? Interesting. report from Alexander Chubinsky on the creation and development of IDP (internal developer platform) The example of Yandex. Alexander tells the story of the development of the platform at Yandex and outlines the stages through which IDP passed: feudalism, empire, decentralization, capitalism. The first three stages are interesting from the point of view of history, but the stage of capitalism is relevant for everyone.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Language construction. From Esperanto to Dothraki - Part II
Language construction. From Esperanto to Dothraki - Part II Continuation first-time book
- · #SelfDevelopment
Language construction. From Esperanto to Dothraki
Language construction. From Esperanto to Dothraki The other day I finished reading a book by Alexander Pipersky, a linguist and popularizer of science, about artificial languages. To be honest, I wasn’t particularly interested in linguistics before this book, but now I think it’s worth it. Alexander is so simple and interesting about this science that it is difficult to break away. The book is not about linguistics in general, but rather about artificial languages: a brief history of their research and the principles of classification.
- · #SelfDevelopment
Tinkoff's Upcoming Education Events Outside Moscow
Tinkoff's Upcoming Education Events Outside Moscow Our education team works throughout Russia and practices different formats: metapas, workshops, courses. Below is the list
- · #Comics
The Great Catsby (The Great Catsby)
The Great Catsby (The Great Catsby) Once upon a time, I read the book The Great Gatsbys and even watched a movie. And recently I bought a comic book with a remix of Gatsby in the cat world, which is described as follows: A cat with no past and no future, that's what people think of him. He leaves behind a poor life and strives for the glory that he believes he deserves.
- · #Management
What You Need To Be A CTO • Simon Raik-Allen • YOW! 2018
What You Need To Be A CTO • Simon Raik-Allen • YOW! 2018 Interesting. report The topic of responsibility of the CIO from the speaker who worked in both large and small teams. Nice story.
- · #SystemDesign
Public Interview on System Design on ArchDays
Public Interview on System Design on ArchDays Today, it's here. recordingwhat I spent on ArchDays 2023. The interviewer was Nikita Staroverov, my colleague from Tinkoff Investments. In this interview, we designed A simple system for performing a/b experiments style Firebase a/b testing. It seemed to me that the interview went well and interesting, especially considering that Nikita was not familiar with the subject area, but with the help of additional questions he was able to gather all the necessary information.
- · #GameDesign
Sid Meyer: Life in the world of computer games (Sid Meier's Memoir! A Life in Computer Games)
Sid Meyer: Life in the world of computer games (Sid Meier's Memoir! A Life in Computer Games) Sid Meyer's memoir is a tipper:) It's very interesting to read the story of who invented Civilization, which I never got to play:)
- · #Reading
How to read books
How to read books For more than thirty years I have been reading books in bulk, and only now have I got to the book of Professor Povarnin, the first edition of which was published in the journal Nature. 100 years ago. This book presents approaches that allow you to get everything from reading books. 100% efficiency. It is gratifying that many of these techniques I empirically invented for myself, and now meet in the master's book:)
- · #Software
Cultivating Production Excellence • Liz Fong-Jones • YOW! 2019
Cultivating Production Excellence • Liz Fong-Jones • YOW! 2019 Another one. report About SRE practices from an engineer who got them working at Google. Liz Fong-Jones only in the beginning 2019 I went to Honeycomb a year ago. 10 I worked at Google for years. Interestingly, the new company Liz is engaged in observability tools that are useful to engineers who care about the reliability of their systems.
- · #PopularScience
Scientists joke
Scientists joke Today I finished reading a book about the jokes of scientists of different specialties, which contains interesting stories with sparkling jokes of famous scientists, funny cases with students and lecturers, just stories and scientific anecdotes. The authors were real scientists: B. S. Gorobets, Yu. A. Zolotov, S. N. Fedin, with an unreal sense of humor:) The book is a compilation of selected parts from four books.
- · #Architecture
[2/2] Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • YOW! 2019 (Category Architecture)
\[2/2\] Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • YOW! 2019 (Rubric Architecture ) Continue. firstI'll tell you about the algorithm itself, which suggests using Rebecca.
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[1/2] Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • YOW! 2019 (Category Architecture)
\[1/2\] Growing Your Personal Design Heuristics • Rebecca Wirfs-Brock • YOW! 2019 (Rubric Architecture ) I saw it the other day. speech authored Rebecca Wirfs-BrockShe wrote two books, Designing Object-Oriented Software. 1990 Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations 2003. She is the inventor of Responsibility-Driven Design, one of the first behavioral approaches to object design. If you’ve heard of X-Driven Design (XDD)Where X is an arbitrary word, you can thank Rebecca for paving the path.
- · #PopularScience
The problem of splitting the cake equally between two children
The problem of splitting the cake equally between two children For my birthday, I got a book called "Scientists Joke." (compilers B. S. Gorobets, Y. A. Zolotov, S. N. Fedin)The one I've almost read. There are a lot of interesting stories in it, but one of the things I liked was the story of Beria, who appointed coal ministers. Below I will write it in its entirety, but now I want to talk about the simplistic formulation of the problem of honest allocation of resources, as I learned it almost immediately.
- · #PopularScience
Real Space Exhibition
Real Space Exhibition Were on the other day. Real Space ExhibitionI was given tickets for my birthday. I went there with my son Maxim and we had mixed impressions. Let me start with the positives first: Photos from the ISS presented in the form of points on the map, which can be selected and seen as if from the ISS - these are the norms Augmented reality, where you can control two hands and try to knock down droplets of liquid and other objects - it's interesting.
- · #ForParents
Lion, witch and wardrobe (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Lion, witch and wardrobe (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe) This is the book I read to my kids last night. It’s the first in Clive Staples’ Chronicles of Narnia series, although it has a prequel, The Magician’s Nephew, which I’m already talking about. wrote earlier. In this book, we meet. Four children are being evacuated from London to the countryside to protect them from possible bombardments. 2 world-wide Peter, Edmund, Susie and Lucy, once in the village, explore a huge house and find a wardrobe.
- · #Writing
Okay, okay. How to communicate thoughts and convince people with words
Okay, okay. How to communicate thoughts and convince people with words This book by Maxim Ilyakhov continues the book "Write, shorten", which is devoted to the so-called infostyle. This is an approach to editing text to simplify it, which is actively used by copywriters. About my perception of the first book I wrote I'm going to talk about the sequel in the form of the book "Clear, clear."
- · #SelfDevelopment
Leetcode
Leetcode Purchased as a gift for his birthday premium access leetcode for a year. I will try to add to the habit of solving at least one problem a day to restore the coding skills that have become so “bronze” in recent years. At the same time, I will remove my books on algorithms and data structures from the back shelf of the library.
- · #BookCube
During the New Year holidays, he decided to replenish his library and eventually received the title of Book Yeti from Tinkoff:)
During the New Year holidays, he decided to replenish his library and eventually received the title of Book Yeti from Tinkoff:)
- · #SelfDevelopment
Another birthday of mine.
Another birthday of mine. I'm turning today. 38 Over the years, I decided to remember what I had done in my life. In kindergarten, I planned to quickly finish it and move on to something more interesting. At the end of kindergarten, I went to chess school and thought that one day I would become a grandmaster, but in the end I went to school. 7 The class realized that they would not and finished playing chess. In school, I was able to do everything easily, I went to the Olympics in almost all subjects.