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Book Cube publications from 2024, page 6: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.

  1. · #Management

    [6/8] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Category Management)

    \[6/8\] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Rubric Management ) I continue the story of this book with a review of the third and last part of Versions of You, where the author talks on his fingers about the geek mindset and how to successfully learn with different people, where each person is a different version of you:) Posts from other parts of the book are available here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 38) Types of meetings This is a fun classification of meeting participants…

  2. · #SelfDevelopment

    Solving chess puzzles on Lichess (Category: SelfDevelopment)

    Solving chess puzzles on Lichess (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) More than thirty years ago, even before first grade, I started learning to play chess and continued to do it almost until high school. I didn’t make much progress, but chess helped me structure my thinking and learn tactics and strategies.

  3. · #Management

    [5/8] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Category Management)

    \[5/8\] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Rubric Management ) I continue the story of this book with a review of the third and last part of Versions of You, where the author talks on his fingers about the geek mindset and how to successfully learn with different people, where each person is a different version of you:) Posts from other parts of the book are available here 1, 2, 3, 4.

  4. · #Management

    Choose your book. (Category Management)

    Choose your book. (Rubric Management ) I already am. told As I was recently given a book. The Engineering Executive's Primer " The book was given to me by my colleague, Lesha Tarasov, technical director, who is responsible for social platforms and video platform. As a result, I decided to give a blue and red book about the social network Facebook banned in Russia and about the largest video platform Youtube. Making a gift, I played the famous scene from The Matrix with the choice that Neo faced.

  5. · #Management

    [3/x] Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting take over the world?) (Category Management)

    \[3/x\] Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting take over the world?) (Rubric Management ) Continuing the story of YouTube, which I started in first-post and second postLet's talk about the end of the second part of the book, which I dubbed "10x Growth."

  6. · #Management

    [2/x] Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting take over the world?) (Category Management)

    \[2/x\] Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting take over the world?) (Rubric Management ) Continuing the story of YouTube, which I started in first-postLet's talk about the second part of the book, which I dubbed "10x Growth."

  7. · #Engineering

    The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership

    The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership Today, a friend gave me this book, Will Larson, in a piece of paper that traveled more than a block from the United States. I’m looking forward to reading this book for senior executives:) The point is, I like Villa Larson's Blox. lethain.com and his previous books

  8. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 16 “Copyright and contract with the publisher. Expert - Naila Timershin (Category Writing)

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 16 “Copyright and contract with the publisher. Expert - Naila Timershin (Rubric Writing ) Another lesson from the course of book writing and book publishing from MIF was devoted to copyright and contract with the publishing house. These are very important topics for authors, since it is the contract that determines the terms of the relationship.

  9. · #Conference

    JVM Day - Java/Kotlin/Scala Conference by T-Bank (Category Conference)

    JVM Day - Java/Kotlin/Scala Conference by T-Bank (Rubric Conference ) On the last day of summer (31 August) In our office in Belarus will be a full-fledged JVM Day Conference For language lovers who work on top of JVM and beyond:) There will be three separate tracks at the conference:

  10. · #Management

    [4/8] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Category Management)

    \[4/8\] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Rubric Management ) The second part of The Process is the Product, where the author describes how good processes help prevent problems and disasters. Good processes give structure to work, and bad processes lead to bureaucracy, meaningless meetings, conflict situations. Author in 10 The chapters give you advice on how to make your processes good. (Previous posts 1, 2, 3)

  11. · #Sales

    A selection of books from the sale at the publishing house Peter (Category Sales)

    A selection of books from the sale at the publishing house Peter (Rubric Sales ) Today is the last day. sell-off Peter's publishing house, and I bought a whole bunch of books that you might be interested in.

  12. · #Selection

    Reading diary for my two-week vacation (Category Selection)

    Reading diary for my two-week vacation (Rubric Selection ) My vacation started. 5 August is coming to an end, so I decided to sum up my reading sprint for this year. 2 weekdays 1) Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) An interesting story about the rise of Jack Ma and his company, which became a giant of e-com in China, starting with cross-border b2b (Alibaba)Continuing with internal b2c (Taobao)and then adding a payment system. (AliPay and then Ant Group). The book came out in English.

  13. · #Architecture

    System of technological monitoring of objects using the Internet of Things - Oleg Shilovsky

    System of technological monitoring of objects using the Internet of Things - Oleg Shilovsky Today I tried myself as a host at the IT Picnic, where I announced Oleg’s report. The point is that I took this talk to the conference program because I thought it would be interesting to hear about the architecture and reliability of cyber-physical systems. Oleg thoroughly understood how to do this on the example of a real railway bridge. For me, the report turned out to be very interesting and unbanal.

  14. · #BookCube

    My son at an IT picnic in Kolomenskoye lit up for the opening of the presentations in the architecture tent:) And in the evening I will be in this tent to announce the last report.

    My son on IT picnic in Kolomenskoye lit on opening before the start of reports in the tent of architecture:) And in the evening I will be in this tent to announce the last report.

  15. · #BookCube

    Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination and YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting company conquer the world?

    Here's the cover art. books "Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination" and "Youtube." How did the most popular video hosting company conquer the world?

  16. · #Management

    [1/x] Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting take over the world?) (Category Management)

    \[1/x\] Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination (YouTube. How did the most popular video hosting take over the world?) (Rubric Management ) It's a very interesting book. 2022 Marc Bergen's The Birth, Development and Dominance of YouTube, which shows the backstage of this media empire. The book itself consists of four parts, and in this post will be about the first part.

  17. · #Humor

    IT stand-up - Tolya Popko, Head of Non-Visual Testing Group, Yandex (Humor column)

    IT stand-up - Tolya Popko, Head of Non-Visual Testing Group, Yandex (Rubric Humor ) Yandex now does not only conferences, but also IT stand-ups, which recently appeared on the Yandex for Developers channel. 10 pieces. I watched a few videos from the corner of my eye, but I caught on to it. speech Toli Popko, which I found really funny and useful at the same time.

  18. · #Management

    [3/8] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Category Management)

    \[3/8\] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Rubric Management ) Continue the first two posts about this book (1 and 2)I'll end with a story about the managerial skills that Michael Lopp generously painted in the first part of the book, which is called "The Management Quiver." 11) Anatomy of the head's mandate A chapter on when and how to exercise your right as a decision maker.

  19. · #Management

    Prometheus: The Documentary (Category Management )

    Prometheus: The Documentary (Rubric Management ) Interesting half-hour documentary The appearance of the Prometheus project in 2012 SoundCloud has become the de facto standard for cloud-native applications.

  20. · #Management

    [2/8] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Category Management)

    \[2/8\] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Rubric Management ) Continue. first About this interesting book, I would like to talk briefly about the first part. The Management Quiver ", which was devoted to the skills of engineering manager. The author packaged it in 21 A little chapter with funny titles, and I'll decipher below what they mean. 1) Don't be an asshole. Advice on the need to be human in order to manage people in the modern world.

  21. · #BookCube

    Here are the covers of Managing Humans and How to Manage Intellectuals.

    Here's the cover. books Managing Humans and How to Manage Intellectuals

  22. · #Management

    [1/8] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Category Management)

    \[1/8\] Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager (How to Manage Intellectuals: I'm Nerds & Geeks) (Rubric Management ) I read this book by Michael Lopp. (Michael Lopp) english 5 Years ago, by that time, it was no longer the first freshness. 3 re-release and the last was in 2016 year. I liked the book then - the author's style was light and humorous and in places quite accurately hit the goal. In 2020 Michael had a book called “The Art of Leadership” that got me even more. (I'm talking about her. told).

  23. · #Conference

    Ticket draw for IT Picnic 17 August

    Ticket draw for IT Picnic 17 August 17 In August in Moscow in the park Kolomenskoye will be held big IT picnicWhich I mean. told earlier. I have one. 3 Tickets for readers of my channel. To determine who will get the tickets, I decided to organize a small contest - write in the comments topics that you would like me to disassemble here in separate posts or in a video on Youtube.

  24. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 15 “Transformation of the manuscript into publication. Expert - Svetlana Motylkova (Category Writing)

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 15 “Transformation of the manuscript into publication. Expert - Svetlana Motylkova (Rubric Writing ) An interesting lesson about how to turn a manuscript into a book yourself or with the help of your favorite publisher:)

  25. · #Sales

    Summer Sale at Peter Publishing House (Category Sales)

    Summer Sale at Peter Publishing House (Rubric Sales) In publishing house sell-off 12 along 18 discounted 40%. To receive this discount, you need to use the promo code "Summer" when placing an order.

  26. · #SelfDevelopment

    How I Solve Difficult Problems or How I Came From Decisions in My Mind to Writing Culture (Category: SelfDevelopment)

    How I Solve Difficult Problems or How I Came From Decisions in My Mind to Writing Culture (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) For yours. 38 I have come a long way in this matter for years. When I was a child, a lot was easy for me, even before school I started playing chess, and in the first grade I already defeated my father. So I ended up in the chess section of the DYUSS, where I went until the end of seventh grade. There I learned to distinguish tactics from strategy, calculation of options, and positional play.

  27. · #SRE

    How we use GenAI in SRE (Category SRE)

    How we use GenAI in SRE (Rubric SRE ) I periodically read Google articles on Distributed Systems and Parallel Computing on their research.google website. That's where I found the article.How we use GenAI in SRE" abstracted Google services run on the world’s largest network of computers.

  28. · #BookCube

    Covers of "Battle for Uber" and "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber" and the Showtime series.

    Covers of "Battle for Uber" and "Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber" and the Showtime series.

  29. · #Management

    Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (The Battle for Uber) (Category Management)

    Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber (The Battle for Uber) (Rubric Management ) I read another book on vacation, this time about Uber. This company has demonstrated the power of disruptive innovation, literally destroying the standard world of taxi drivers and dispatchers and building a beautiful and comfortable new world for passengers on the rubble. This revolution was led by Travis Kalanick, who valued results above all else and ignored the laws, twisting the hands of the authorities.

  30. · #Engineering

    [1/2] Extreme programming: setting the process (Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win) (Category Engineering)

    \[1/2\] Extreme programming: setting the process (Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win) (Rubric Engineering ) This post ends with a review of a book from the early 2000s that I started with in the previous one. post. Here I planned to talk about the six remaining practices of the second stage, as well as provide materials for further study. Let's go. 1) Simple design. (Simple Design) The point here is not to make a large architecture before the start of the project, but to design as new information and requirements become available.

  31. · #BookCube

    Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win and Extreme Programming: Staging a Process. It is interesting to note the stylistic difference in the design of books:)

    Covers books "Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win" and "Extreme Programming: Staging the Process". It is interesting to note the stylistic difference in the design of books:)

  32. · #Engineering

    [1/2] Extreme programming: setting the process (Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win) (Category Engineering)

    \[1/2\] Extreme programming: setting the process (Extreme Programming Applied: Playing to Win) (Rubric Engineering ) Today I decided to remember a book about extreme programming. (XP) from the start of my career (She appeared in Russian. 20 years ago, and in English a couple of years earlier.). In this book, the authors analyze what XP is and, most importantly, how to apply it in practice. Most XP practices have become the de facto standard and don’t even need to be sold now, as they are considered to be some baseline for engineering practices.

  33. · #Architecture

    [2/2] Architecture of the House of Narkomfin yesterday and today (Category Architecture)

    \[2/2\] Architecture of the House of Narkomfin yesterday and today (Rubric Architecture ) Continue. first About the House of Narkomfin, here I will finish the story about the rest of the book

  34. · #BookCube

    The cover and illustrations from the book "Architecture of the House of the People's Commissar yesterday and today", and the last photo is what the bookstore on the first floor of this house looks like now.

    Cover and illustrations from books "Architecture of the House of the People's Commissariat of Yesterday and Today," and the last photo is what the bookstore on the first floor of this house looks like now.

  35. · #Architecture

    [1/2] Architecture of the House of Narkomfin yesterday and today (Category Architecture)

    \[1/2\] Architecture of the House of Narkomfin yesterday and today (Rubric Architecture ) I decided to read this book after visiting the House of Narkomfin. (furthermore)Which I mean. wrote earlier. I wonder why architects are (Moses Ginsburg and Ignatius Milinis) decided to build just such a house and that of all this venture came out, since the house was too interesting looked and had a rich history, and the description like the one below stoked interest.

  36. · #Culture

    Walk in Moscow (Category Culture)

    Walk in Moscow (Rubric Culture ) A few days ago, told about the book This is our Moscow. ", which I read on the occasion of planning a walk with my wife in Moscow." This trip took place and our route looked like this.

  37. · #Culture

    "Fear Nothing, I'm With You" (Category Culture)

    "Fear Nothing, I'm With You" (Rubric Culture ) My wife and I were at a musical yesterday.Don't worry, I'm with you.And we liked him. Although the plot was not complicated, but everything was dynamic and ironic. New arrangements of old songs from childhood were well built into history and sounded new. The musical has a pleasant aftertaste.

  38. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 14 "The manuscript is ready. What's next? Expert - Svetlana Motylkova (Category Writing)

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 14 "The manuscript is ready. What's next? Expert - Svetlana Motylkova (Rubric Writing ) Interesting lesson about working with publishers. This is especially true for those who would like to see their book published:) The main thoughts I learned from this lesson are the following:

  39. · #SelfDevelopment

    Leetcode - progress in seven months (Category: SelfDevelopment)

    Leetcode - progress in seven months (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) I've been on leetcode for seven months. During this time, I remembered the syntax of Python and SQL, that is, how to write algorithmic code and multi-storey queries in SQL. During this time, I took the following courses. - Introduction to Data Structure. Arrays 101

  40. · #Management

    [3/3] Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) (Category Management)

    \[3/3\] Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) (Rubric Management ) This is a book about Jack Ma, who started his career. first and second Here are some recent chapters that are very interesting:)

  41. · #Engineering

    AMA session - 7 August 2024

    AMA session - 7 August 2024 The post about the session ask me anything got a lot of questions in the comments, so I'll arrange today in the 20.00 YouTube streamwhere I will answer the questions asked.

  42. · #Memories

    Farewell to the Long Prudish in 2019

    Farewell to the Long Prudish in 2019 A story. The book "This is Our Moscow" made me remember the post I wrote. 5 Years ago, when I moved from Dolgoprudny to Moscow. Bye, Dolgoprudny. We had a good time together, but I moved to Moscow. The final point was today’s transfer of the keys to the Dolgoprudno apartment:) Nearly half of life is associated with long-term or 16 years out of 33:) I remember.

  43. · #Culture

    This is our Moscow. (Category Culture)

    This is our Moscow. (Rubric Culture ) Yesterday, my wife and I were planning to take a walk around Moscow and, choosing a place, we remembered this book by Victoria Novoselskaya. The book itself was bought by me on occasion for having a beautiful cover and the subtitle "Stories of a City You Can't Not Fall In Love With." Yesterday we found this book in our library, because the system of its organization does not involve maintaining a library catalog:) And after she was found, I couldn't stop reading it. 112 pages 42 individual stories.

  44. · #Engineering

    AMA (Ask me anything)

    AMA (Ask me anything) I decided that while I was on vacation, I could try to collect questions from readers of this channel and answer them live. If you wanted to ask something, but were shy, then ask questions in the comments, and then I will broadcast on Youtube, where I answer them:) If the questions require visual accompaniment, then by the stream I will make a myro board, where I throw auxiliary materials. If there are too many questions, I will break them down into several streams.

  45. · #Management

    [2/3] Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) (Category Management)

    \[2/3\] Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) (Rubric Management ) Continue. posture About the way of Jack Ma and Alibaba I will briefly tell about the rest of the chapters

  46. · #BookCube

    Book Review: Developing Apps with GPT4 and ChatGPT" and "Development of applications based on GPT-4 and ChatGPT

    Here's the cover. books "Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT" and "Development of applications based on GPT-4 and ChatGPT

  47. · #AI

    Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT: Build Intelligent Chatbots, Content Generators, and More (Development of applications based on GPT-4 ChatGPT) (AI column)

    Developing Apps with GPT-4 and ChatGPT: Build Intelligent Chatbots, Content Generators, and More (Development of applications based on GPT-4 ChatGPT) (Rubric AI ) On the second day of vacation, I read a short book. 2023 year on creating applications using GPT (Generative pre-trained transformers)which is great for beginners or those who have missed the last couple of years of hype relative to LLM (large language models). This book is as simple and practical as possible, there are only five chapters in it.

  48. · #BookCube

    Here are the books on Alibaba.

    Here's the cover. books

  49. · #Management

    [1/3] Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) (Category Management)

    \[1/3\] Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Alibaba. The history of the world ascent from the first person) (Rubric Management ) In this book, Duncan Clarke tells the story of Jack Ma and Alibaba, which became one of the three big tech giants in China, along with Tencent and Baidu. Jack's journey wasn't easy, but his ambitious approach and bet on people played out, providing us with another survivor's mistake story. (survivorship bias).

  50. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 13 “How to turn a manuscript into a script. Expert - Aksinya Borisova (Category Writing)

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 13 “How to turn a manuscript into a script. Expert - Aksinya Borisova (Rubric Writing ) Interesting lesson about creating scripts. Here, an expert, a practicing screenwriter, talks about the peculiarities of the profession, as well as the differences between the book and the script for the film / cartoon / series.