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Book Cube publications from 2024, page 8: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.

  1. · #Management

    [2/3] Business lines, service lines and platforms @ T-Bank (Category Management)

    \[2/3\] Business lines, service lines and platforms @ T-Bank (Rubric Management ) I'll continue the first. posture about the structure of the company with the story of how we arranged the attraction, with which I started then in Tinkoff almost 8 years ago. Attraction is a canonical service line, this service line customers are business lines. The task from them sounds simplistic like this. With our business plans in mind, we need to attract X% of new customers.

  2. · #Management

    Interview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1 (Category Management)

    Interview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1 (Rubric Management ) Funny. joke-interview With agile coach:) The meaning is about the same as in the video.The Agile Paradoxon", the truth is there it is shown in dynamics - where it began and where it came from. In the same video, we see a typical coach with quotes of the kind: - We don't even define requirements until after production - Identify problems.

  3. · #History

    [2/3] A battle for the past. How Politics Changes History (Category History)

    \[2/3\] A battle for the past. How Politics Changes History (Rubric History ) Continuing the story of this cool book, started in first-postI will tell you about the second and third parts of the book.

  4. · #BookCube

    The Battle for the Past and a page explaining why history is the language of politics

    Cover books Battle for the Past and a page explaining why history is the language of politics

  5. · #History

    [1/3] A battle for the past. How Politics Changes History (Category History)

    \[1/3\] A battle for the past. How Politics Changes History (Rubric History ) This book by Russian American historian Ivan Kurill was read by me. 2 day. It seemed to me very interesting and reveals on the other hand the geopolitical picture of the world, as well as its connection with the history of the development of states and entire political blocs. In the title of the book I see a reference to Orwell's quote from his novel.1984" (For those who have not read, I recommend reading a book or graphic novel that I have already read.

  6. · #Kids

    Papat-Man! (Category Kids)

    Papat-Man! (Rubric Kids ) Sometimes I read this book to my kids in the evening. I like to share stories with them about what my dad’s childhood looked like. And although this book is written about boys in their eighties, and I went to school for ten years, but stories still resonate in my memory.

  7. · #Management

    Here are the cover books for The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21th Century" (“The following: 100 Forecast of events of the XXI century) in a foreign and translated version.

    Here's the cover. books "The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21th Century" (“The following: 100 Forecast of events of the XXI century) in a foreign and translated version. Management Leadership Processes Strategy

  8. · #Management

    The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21th Century (The following 100 Forecast of events of the XXI century)

    The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21th Century (The following 100 Forecast of events of the XXI century) I used to. told about the module about strategy from Andrei Shishakov and materials that he recommended to read. Among these materials was a book by the American political scientist George Friedman, which he published in the United States. 2009 year and in which the forecast for 21 century. Friedman created a consulting agency StratforHe specializes in geopolitics.

  9. · #Travel

    kaliingrad

    kaliingrad My trip is over, I’m on a plane waiting to fly to Moscow. I liked the city and the whole area. I visited the Curonian Spit, bathed in the Baltic Sea, visited the tomb of Kant, ate venison and fish, visited the amber combine and bought souvenirs. For 4 days it was a great weather and a great company:)

  10. · #BookCube

    And here are the covers of Dave Farley's original book Modern Software Engineering and its translation into Russian.

    And here are the covers of the original books Dave Farley "Modern Software Engineering" and translated it into English.

  11. · #Management

    Modern software engineering (Category Management)

    Modern software engineering (Rubric Management ) I recently finished reading this book by David Farley, who has been talking about optimizing development processes for years. Whole. 15 years ago, David Farley and Jez Humble ("Accelerate" co-author) published a bookContinuous DeliveryIt was a breakthrough for its time. In his new book, David decided to summarize the experience and talk in general about software engineering. I read this book for 3 I could not read more than a month in a day. 10 Pages in a row - the author writes too boring and slow.

  12. · #Travel

    kaliningrad (Koenigsberg)

    kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) I flew to Kaliningrad last night. This is my first visit to the city, so right after checking in at Crystal House, I decided to take a walk. Near the hotel there is a beautiful park with a pond and walkways for walking and biking - a very pleasant place. Just north of the park is the Upper Pond with beautiful views and catamarans for those who want to see views from the middle of the pond:) On the shore there was a grilled cafe "Ogonek", where they cook excellent meat and fish.

  13. · #Management

    [3/3] MBA - Module "Strategy and Self-Actualization / Visionary" (Category Management)

    \[3/3\] MBA - Module "Strategy and Self-Actualization / Visionary" (Rubric Management ) I’ll continue with the strategy and leadership module I started in the first two posts: 1 and 2. On the second day of training, we covered a lot of interesting points and I even bought myself some books that skipped through the discussion. Here are the main topics we discussed.

  14. · #Management

    Why Everybody Hates Agile • Jesper Boeg • GOTO 2023 (Category Management)

    Why Everybody Hates Agile • Jesper Boeg • GOTO 2023 (Rubric Management ) Interesting. report From Jesper Boeg, Agile/Lean Coach, who explains why everyone doesn't like Agile and Agile coaches:) Slides of this funny presentation are available here, and the main thoughts that I took for myself are set out below.

  15. · #Culture

    Performance "Moydodyr" at the theater "Fanni Bell House" (Category Culture)

    Performance "Moydodyr" at the theater "Fanni Bell House" (Rubric Culture ) I was with my wife and youngest son today. presentation based on Moydodyr Chukovsky in this small theater, which is located in the garden of Bauman. This theater provides chamber performances for young spectators who sit on pillows right by the stage, and parents sit on chairs in the back.

  16. · #Kids

    Wow in the Trinity Kingdom. Tales (Category Kids)

    Wow in the Trinity Kingdom. Tales (Rubric Kids ) Recently, my wife and I bought my youngest son a funny book of fairy tales from our childhood. The fairy tales in the book are adapted for the format of comics and there are three tales of different three authors, and the illustrations were made by the artist A. Savchenko.

  17. · #BookCube

    New office in Belarus

    New office in Belarus After moving our company to a new office, I now have a new view from the window - now I see a major railway station:) This looks great. Sheldon Cooper. The Big Bang Theory, who loved rail transport. I'm not Sheldon, but sometimes I like to stand in my office and think about the trains coming and going. Sometimes after that, interesting thoughts come that can be turned into another diagram on the electronic whiteboard or some meaningful text in wiki/jira/mail/tg:)

  18. · #Management

    [2/3] MBA - Module "Strategy and Self-Actualization / Visionary" (Category Management)

    \[2/3\] MBA - Module "Strategy and Self-Actualization / Visionary" (Rubric Management ) Continue. first On the topic of the strategy module, I will tell you what we discussed yesterday. After Porterianism and Resources, we remembered Norton and Kaplan and their balanced scorecard. (balanced scorecard). This concept appeared in 90- the years and allowed to show business from four sides: finance, employees, customers, organization / processes We continued to talk about the narratives that drive the company forward.

  19. · #Management

    [1/3] MBA - Module "Strategy and Self-Actualization / Visionary" (Category Management)

    \[1/3\] MBA - Module "Strategy and Self-Actualization / Visionary" (Rubric Management ) Yesterday I spent the whole day at training in Skolkovo, where Andrei Shishakov He spoke in his own style about approaches to strategy. It is interesting that I have already passed this module from Andrew in the middle. 2022 It was a year when the issue of strategy was quite acute. I have already told you about that program. earlier And then Andrew's module was one of the most interesting.

  20. · #Management

    [1/3] Business lines, service lines and platforms @ T-Bank (Category Management)

    \[1/3\] Business lines, service lines and platforms @ T-Bank (Rubric Management ) I haven’t written about management for a long time and decided to correct myself by writing about the structure of T-Bank:) Our company is organized federally: different subdivisions work independently enough to achieve the common goals of the company. Most of the divisions belong to one of three types: business lines, service lines, platforms, which are very different from each other. It is important for the manager to understand what type of department he works in.

  21. · #Kids

    Departure to the Chashnikovo biostation (Category Kids)

    Departure to the Chashnikovo biostation (Rubric Kids) Was this weekend with his family at the biostation near Moscow excursionIt was organized by the guys from the channel "The Way of Discovery". Actually, Nastya, my wife, found this excursion and interested all our children in the colony.

  22. · #Architecure

    Application architecture and design errors - Rustam Akhmetov - Joker 2022 (Category Architecure)

    Application architecture and design errors - Rustam Akhmetov - Joker 2022 (Rubric Architecure ) Interesting. report from Rustam Akhmetov on the architecture of how to organize your application code. The author approached the projectile thoroughly and made an overview of all common architectural options, making references to the original articles, where they were first recalled. First, the author says that good code architecture and structure helps us fight complexity.

  23. · #Architecture

    Architectural diagrams and metadata generation – Kirill Vetchinkin – E-community 2023 (Category Architecture)

    Architectural diagrams and metadata generation – Kirill Vetchinkin – E-community 2023 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report from Kirill, in which he continues the theme of the architectural repository, which he lift up on ArchDays 2022.

  24. · #Architecture

    dbt - the core of a modern data platform - Evgeny Yermakov - SmartData 2023 (Category Architecture)

    dbt - the core of a modern data platform - Evgeny Yermakov - SmartData 2023 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report Yevgenia Ermakova about the construction of a date platform in toloka.ai, which, having gained independence from Yandex, was forced to move to new technologies. In the end, the choice fell on databricks, dbt, airflow and tableau. The author explains why this choice was made and how it all works.

  25. · #Architecture

    Experience of using the "Architecture as a Code" approach in Airplane Group - Roman Piontic, Valentin Kozlov - ArchDays 2023 (Category Architecture)

    Experience of using the "Architecture as a Code" approach in Airplane Group - Roman Piontic, Valentin Kozlov - ArchDays 2023 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report Roman and Valentine's description of architecture on the latest ArchDays. The essence of the report is to show how this documentation is arranged in the construction company "Airplane", where so much is tied to information modeling. BIM (Building Information Model) to display the architecture of buildings built and built by the company "Airplane".

  26. · #HR

    Vacancy "Statistics and A/B Testing Analyst at T-Bank" (Category HR)

    Vacancy "Statistics and A/B Testing Analyst at T-Bank" (Rubric HR ) I’ve been talking a lot lately about working with data, doing experiments, and building an a/b platform. And it's not for nothing - we create an a/b platform for the whole company, and we also have a laboratory of applied statistics, which is headed by Roman Filev. (@simbaizdolgopi). Roma is now looking for analysts to develop and implement SOTA hypotheses testing methods, pioneer best practices and roll them through a single decision-making platform.

  27. · #Architecture

    We conduct an architectural review of product features - Maxim Pedchenko - Yandex Go Product Engineering Meetup (Category Architecture)

    We conduct an architectural review of product features - Maxim Pedchenko - Yandex Go Product Engineering Meetup (Rubric Architecture ) Good. report Maxim Pedchenko from Yandex, in which he told why to conduct an architectural review and even showed a real example of what it looks like. Funny that the example was from the domain of referral programs, and simply put, how to make a feature with promo codes that a passenger can share with his friends.

  28. · #Management

    [2/2] Dark data (Dark Data. Why What We Don’t Know Is Even More Important Than What We Do) (Category Management)

    \[2/2\] Dark data (Dark Data. Why What We Don’t Know Is Even More Important Than What We Do) (Rubric Management ) Continuing the story of the dark data I started in past postI wanted to talk about the dark data classes that David Hand, a member of the British Academy and president of the Royal Statistical Society, highlights. 1) Data that we know is missing These are known unknowns that occur when we know there are problems in the data that hide values that may have been written down.

  29. · #Culture

    Performance "Nirvana" - Theatre Modern (Category Culture)

    Performance "Nirvana" - Theatre Modern (Rubric Culture ) I was with my eldest son on this yesterday. presentation about the cult musician Kurt Cobain. The play begins with a story about the school years of the musician, where you can already see how cramped he is in his native Aberdeen and how he decides to leave him. (In the production he is accompanied by Drag, personifying consciousness-expanding substances.). Then Kurt meets with Courtney Love, composes music and records albums, and also uses substances in full.

  30. · #AI

    AI for development - a basic skill for 2024 - Vladislav Kuklev - Agile Days 2024 (AI column)

    AI for development - a basic skill for 2024 - Vladislav Kuklev - Agile Days 2024 (Rubric AI ) Interesting. report Vladislav Kuklev, CEO of Agentcy, about AI tuning. It is clear from the name of his company that the final chord is a story about multi-agnetic systems, but before that Vladislav manages to run through the issues.

  31. · #Architecture

    Since architecture is code, why not test it? - Ruslan Safin - ArchDays 2023 (Category Architecture)

    Since architecture is code, why not test it? - Ruslan Safin - ArchDays 2023 (Rubric Architecture) Interesting and practical report from Ruslan Safin on the topic of architecture testing. The basic logic of the report is similar. Describe the architecture through plantuml notationally C4 Model All this is stored in the repository in the form of source code. (in the same turnip where deployments configurations for k8s are stored) Next, we test in pipelines the correspondence of the drawing in plantuml and what lies in the settings of deployments.

  32. · #Humor

    How to Stay a Team Man - Ilya Yakyamsev - Trampoline Meetup (Humor column )

    How to Stay a Team Man - Ilya Yakyamsev - Trampoline Meetup (Rubric Humor ) I’ve talked a lot about architecture and design in the last few days, so today I’m going to talk about the fun part. report from Ilya Yakyamsev, who manages to be both a stand-up comedian and an agile coach. And although Ilya does not write code, but in matters of management and communication with people, he ate a dog, so his speeches at IT conferences look fresh and interesting. In this report, Ilya talks about the rules of communication in IT teams. Za.

  33. · #Architecture

    System Design. How to build a distributed system and pass an interview - Vladimir Maslov - JPoint (Category Architecture)

    System Design. How to build a distributed system and pass an interview - Vladimir Maslov - JPoint (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report System Design Interview by Vladimir Maslov. He made a cool review of this type of interview and told memasics about the following topics. Why employers conduct this type of interview and what they want to check

  34. · #BookCube

    He finished performing and went to the bar, where a very remarkable cocktail card, and an hour later already to the airport and back to Moscow. Anyway, the trip to Peter was a success:)

    He finished performing and went to the bar, where a very remarkable cocktail card, and an hour later already to the airport and back to Moscow. Anyway, the trip to Peter was a success:)

  35. · #Architecture

    Architecture at T-Bank: How we design our solutions (Category Architecture)

    Architecture at T-Bank: How we design our solutions (Rubric Architecture ) Today I'm performing on our festival St. Petersburg with a story about design and architecture. Today’s festival is dedicated to science and technology, so I decided to take this theme and present it to the maximum, so that any visitor to the festival understands. As a result, I have a lot of references in the report, which interested people can study in their spare time themselves, and not just take my word for it:) And these are the references.

  36. · #Architecture

    Architecture as Code - Roman Piontic - ArchDays 2022 (Category Architecture)

    Architecture as Code - Roman Piontic - ArchDays 2022 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. speech About Dochub by the author of the ArchDays tool 2022. Up-to-date information on the instrument is located hereBut here I will talk about the main points of the report: The main idea was to create a tool to cover all stages of the company’s development, from a startup to a mature organization. This tool should be adequate for a specific domain, be built into production processes and analyze the architecture.

  37. · #Architecture

    ArchDays 2024 - CFP (Category Architecture)

    ArchDays 2024 - CFP (Rubric Architecture ) I already am. toldThe next ArchDays conference will be held this fall, and for the sixth time. I am a member of the conference program committee and we have a call for paper. And if you bring a talk on topics like arch governance, arch as a code, enerprise arch, and that's all, I'm probably the one who's going to review it. So if you wanted to discuss architectural issues with me, then you are welcome, register as a speaker.

  38. · #Architecture

    Architectural repository based on GitLab and C4 Model for a large company - Kirill Vetchinkin - ArchDays 2022 (Category Architecture)

    Architectural repository based on GitLab and C4 Model for a large company - Kirill Vetchinkin - ArchDays 2022 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. report Kirill on the topic of an architectural repository for a medium-sized company, in which Kirill spoke about the implementation of architectural processes with the growth of the company.

  39. · #Architecture

    [3/3] Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition (Category Architecture)

    \[3/3\] Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition (Rubric Architecture ) With this post, I’m finishing up my book about Cassandra. (previous posts: 1 and 2).

  40. · #Humor

    Music by SUSE (Humor column)

    Music by SUSE (Rubric Humor ) SUSE has a great band that makes cool versions of popular songs:) The best thing for Friday is to listen to some fun music and relax after a difficult week, which was difficult for many of my colleagues, but everyone coped perfectly. And now a selection from SUSE:

  41. · #Architecture

    [2/2] Complexity and modularity are two sides of the same coin - Vlad Hononov - ArchDays 2023 (Category Architecture)

    \[2/2\] Complexity and modularity are two sides of the same coin - Vlad Hononov - ArchDays 2023 (Rubric Architecture ) Continue. posture Vlad Hononov's report on ArchDays 2023I’ll talk about using the integration model to evaluate the quality of architecture. For evaluation, Vlad suggests using 2 parameter: the distance between the interacting components and the level of this interaction (intrusive coupling, functional coupling, model coupling, contract coupling).

  42. · #Architecture

    [1/2] Complexity and modularity are two sides of the same coin - Vlad Hononov - ArchDays 2023 (Category Architecture)

    \[1/2\] Complexity and modularity are two sides of the same coin - Vlad Hononov - ArchDays 2023 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. speech Vlada Khononova from the conference on architecture, the program committee of which I am a member. In this talk, Vlad briefly described the relationship between complexity and modularity, which allows you to introduce interesting system and code quality metrics that simplify coupling/connascence/cohesion.

  43. · #Architecture

    [2/3] Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition (Category Architecture)

    \[2/3\] Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition (Rubric Architecture ) In this post, I continue with an interesting book on Cassandra. (beginning previous post) And I'm just talking about chapter six. The Cassandra Architecture " This chapter begins with the definition of architecture. Architecture—fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and evolution. —ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 And then the interesting thing begins.

  44. · #Architecture

    Engineering Architecture Meetup @ T-Bank (Category Architecture)

    Engineering Architecture Meetup @ T-Bank (Rubric Architecture ) Today in our office T-Bank is an architectural mitap, which is available and broadcast (It starts in 19.00). My colleagues put together an interesting program of three papers, only one from a colleague and the rest from invited experts. Definition of service boundaries

  45. · #BookCube

    Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition, I will add some illustrations.

    Continuing the story of the book Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition I'll give you some illustrations.

  46. · #Architecture

    [1/3] Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition (Category Architecture)

    \[1/3\] Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 3rd edition (Rubric Architecture ) Over a year ago, I read this book about the popular NoSQL database and planned to write a short sammari. But when I started writing sammari, I realized that I had to do separate posts first.

  47. · #News

    Tinkoff is now T-Bank (News column)

    Tinkoff is now T-Bank (Rubric News ) Today we announced that Tinkoff has become T-Bank.. This is stated by Stanislav Bliznyuk in his interview Vedomosti. In short, nothing really changes for customers except the name of the products.

  48. · #SelfDevelopment

    Leetcode - progress in the fifth month

    Leetcode - progress in the fifth month Here we go. 5 I spent months playing with leetcode, remembering how to code:) And this month so far has been the weakest - part of it I've been ill and so started my daily ritual with problem solving. Plus course.Data Structures and Algorithms"almost finished." (I went through all the subjects.) And there's only those problems that I put off for later, but each one takes longer than the standard one. That’s what I did in May, on average.

  49. · #Management

    The Most Dangerous Phrase • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023 (Category Management)

    The Most Dangerous Phrase • Daniel Terhorst-North • GOTO 2023 (Rubric Management ) Interesting. speech Daniel Terhorst-North "We've always done it the way" ("We've always done it this way."). A relative of this phrase is "It's been so historically":) The danger is that once we have made a decision and started to act in a certain way, then we act like this. The conditions under which the decision was made may have changed, but the course of action has become a self-sustaining habit. And that’s bad, because our actions may be far from optimal.

  50. · #Writing

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 9 “Tell stories: storytelling in a book. Expert - Larisa Parfentieva (Category Writing)

    Facility 4 - Lesson. 9 “Tell stories: storytelling in a book. Expert - Larisa Parfentieva (Rubric Writing ) I am still learning how to write books, catching up with a program that has gone a month ahead:) This lesson was about storytelling, which I actively studied on my own, but it was interesting to listen to the lesson of Larissa, who shared her experience. Previous posts are available here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.