Book Cube: 2025, page 13
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 13: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
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10 Developer Productivity Boosts from Generative AI (Filed under DevEx)
10 Developer Productivity Boosts from Generative AI (Rubric DevEx ) I saw another one. interesting and short video Martin Keen, IBM Fellow, who for many years at IBM proved himself as an inventor (more 400 patent)He is a technical supervisor, researcher in AI, and content creator on the IBM Technology channel. In this video, Martin talks about how Gen AI can help improve developer productivity, and I’ve talked about this topic in a lot of detail before, for example, in a recent talk about how Gen AI can help improve developer productivity.
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How do I feel when I go to work? This is my youngest son’s usual trip to the garden.
How do I feel when I go to work? This is my youngest son’s usual trip to the garden.
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Research Insights Made Simple 8 "Measuring developer goals" (Filed under DevEx)
Research Insights Made Simple 8 "Measuring developer goals" (Rubric DevEx ) In this release Alexander Kusurgashev came to visit me to talk about the Google article "Measuring developer goals":) Alexander works at T-Bank in Core Tech and develops our internal development platform. He believes in the laws of physics, platforming, and the benefits of reuse. For him, it is important that T-Bank’s IT systems work efficiently – from the level of physical infrastructure to the final services for consumers.
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The cover of the book "Digital Nudge" and a few examples of the concept
Cover "Digital Nudge" A few examples of the concept
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Digital Nudge (Category Management)
Digital Nudge (Rubric Management ) I got this book six months ago, but I read it the other day. In it, Fabio Pereira talks about the basic principles of behavioral economics that can be applied in the digital world to subtly influence user decisions and behavior. The author introduces the concept of digital nudging, which is the use of subtle elements of design, information and interaction in a digital environment to control user behavior without limiting their freedom of choice.
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[2/2] Behavioral Interview Discussion with Ex-Meta Hiring Committee Member (Category Management)
\[2/2\] Behavioral Interview Discussion with Ex-Meta Hiring Committee Member (Rubric Management ) Continue. story about behavioral interviews in foreign bigtechs, which I began in the first post.
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[1/2] Behavioral Interview Discussion with Ex-Meta Hiring Committee Member (Category Management)
\[1/2\] Behavioral Interview Discussion with Ex-Meta Hiring Committee Member (Rubric Management ) Interesting. discussion Behavioral interviews in big tech companies. It is itself performed in the form of an interview that Stefan Mai takes with Austen McDonald, a former senior engineering manager at Meta and a member of the hiring committee there. In this interview, Austin shares his experiences and his thoughts on behavioral interviews.
- · #ИИгонка
Who gets the Mandate of Heaven?
Who gets the Mandate of Heaven? The dynamics of the LLM arms race in one slide. Arms Race in the Large Language Model Market (LLM) It is simple: everyone tries to get the highest accuracy at the lowest price. And the “frontier” reflects the best options for combining these two parameters at the moment.
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I like to read the channel "Little-known interesting", as there are very interesting thoughts.
I like to read the channel "Little-known interesting", as there are very interesting thoughts. They give me a little more perspective on what's happening at the cutting edge of technology, and sometimes it's not that much broader, but it's like a different angle:) Specifically in this post, I liked the interesting visualization and overall quality/cost graphics for LLMs, as well as the frontier of OpenAI, DeepSeek and Gemini models.
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[2/2] Squad Health Check and compare it to DORA Metrics, SPACE, DevEx (Category Management)
\[2/2\] Squad Health Check and compare it to DORA Metrics, SPACE, DevEx (Rubric Management ) Continue. comparison To assess the effectiveness of teams, I will tell you about the remaining parameters by which they can be compared.
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[1/2] Squad Health Check and compare it to DORA Metrics, SPACE, DevEx (Category Management)
\[1/2\] Squad Health Check and compare it to DORA Metrics, SPACE, DevEx (Rubric Management ) Just the other day I came across an ancient survey tool from Spotify. This concept was published in the distant 2014 A couple of years after the publication of the famous Spotify model with all sorts of guilds, squads and other funny names. It was designed by Henrik Kniberg and popularize beautiful cartoons and comics that have become viral.
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[4/4] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Category Engineering)
\[4/4\] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Rubric Engineering ) Continuing the story of this cool book raised in posts 1 and 2 and 3The fourth and fifth parts of the book are titled Tools and Conclusions. IV. Tools (tool) 16. Version control and branch management (Version management and branch management) In In this chapter, the authors describe how Google uses version control, or rather its mono repository, to manage vast amounts of code.
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Drive. (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) (Category Management)
Drive. (Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us) (Rubric Management ) I recently read this classic book by Daniel Pink. (cover post)which was written at the end. 2000-of the years. At the time, it sounded fresh and challenged traditional notions of motivation, especially the carrot-and-stick approach based on rewards and punishments. Daniel mixed the focus on intrinsic motivation rather than external stimuli. The author well weaves into his narrative the results of the research of scientists such as Daniel Kahneman and his book.
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Covers books "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us"
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Cross-layer Enterprise Architecture Evaluation
Illustrations from articles " Cross-layer Enterprise Architecture Evaluation "
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Cross-layer Enterprise Architecture Evaluation: An Approach to Improve the Evaluation of TO-BE Enterprise Architecture (Category Architecture)
Cross-layer Enterprise Architecture Evaluation: An Approach to Improve the Evaluation of TO-BE Enterprise Architecture (Rubric Architecture ) While studying architecture, I came across article Approaches to assessing the target state of the corporate architecture. The article is quite old, but the key words that interested me were in it. To summarize this article, the authors focus on the evaluation process, but also describe EA processes.
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The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek YC Decoded (AI column)
The Engineering Unlocks Behind DeepSeek YC Decoded (Rubric AI ) Interesting. 13 minute analysis of DeepSeek R1 From the guys at Y Combinator, who focus not on hype, but on engineering stuff. The main points of discussion are such
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Measuring developer productivity: A clear-eyed view (Category Management)
Measuring developer productivity: A clear-eyed view (Rubric Management ) Interesting. interview On the theme of developer productivity, which Kent Beck took from Abi Nod, Both gentlemen are respected people among developers. The interesting thing about this interview is that Kent Beck has always been a consistent critic of metrics around developer productivity, and Abi Noda builds on this business. And this is what they discussed.
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Covers for “The Creative Programmer” and “Creative Programmer” books, as well as the inside of the cover with a scheme of creativity from the author
Covers for “The Creative Programmer” and “Creative Programmer” books, as well as the inside of the cover with a scheme of creativity from the author
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The Creative Programmer (Creative programmer) (Category: SelfDevelopment)
The Creative Programmer (Creative programmer) (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) I recently read this book by Wouter Grenefeld about creativity in programming. The bottom line is that Wouter sees development as a creative activity comparable to making music, not just a technical process. Moreover, the author argues that creativity can be developed and even gives practical advice on how to do it. The book was originally published by Manning, and translated into Russian by Peter Publishing House. I read Russian and did not notice any problems.
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Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks (Category Architecture)
Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks (Rubric Architecture ) I recently read this one. whitepaper Barry O'Reilly, which he wrote at the time. 2022 year. I decided to study this whitepaper after two of the author's talks I've talked about before. 1) An Introduction to Residuality Theory 2) The Philosophy of Architecture I found his speeches on his resudiality theory interesting and read the paper I want to talk about briefly below.
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AI Trends for 2025 (AI column)
AI Trends for 2025 (Rubric AI ) I saw it recently. seven-minute video Martin Keen, IBM Fellow, who for many years at IBM proved himself as an inventor (more 400 patent)He is a technical supervisor, researcher in AI, and content creator on the IBM Technology channel. In this short video, he talks about his vision of AI trends. 2025 year. Xatachi did that last year, too. video 2024 yearSo you can go and compare how well his predictions hit the spot. But let’s get back to the forecasts for this year.
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Data Breakfast at T-Bank in Early January 2025 year (Data column)
Data Breakfast at T-Bank in Early January 2025 year (Rubric Data ) I was finally able to see the reports from breakfastThat was almost a month ago. It was performed by Dima Anoshin, author of the channel "Data Engineering" (@rockyourdata)As well as Valera Polyakov, our data director. I was a bit involved in organizing the event, but I couldn't attend because I was flying home from Sri Lanka.
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The Rise of Vertical AI in Accounting (AI column)
The Rise of Vertical AI in Accounting (AI column) I read an interesting article about AI in accounting from the newsletter a16z Fintech from the AnderssenHorowitz Foundation. Actually, Andreessen Horowitz. (commonly known as the A16z) It is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm based in 2009 Mark Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.
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[3/4] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Category Engineering)
\[3/4\] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Rubric Engineering ) Continuing the story of this cool book raised in posts 1 and 2Here I will tell you about the third part of the book called Processes.
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Research on Enterprise Business Architecture Design Method Based on Domain-Driven Design (Category Architecture)
Research on Enterprise Business Architecture Design Method Based on Domain-Driven Design (Rubric Architecture ) I continue to read and share stories about whitepapers on the subject of architecture and today I'm talking about whitepapers. article Huiwen Deng and Yan Zhao from China Aerospace Academy of Systems Science and Engineering in Beijing. In this article, the guys decided to combine approaches from enterprise architecture with DDD practices.
- · #Humor
Comic Agile - Aligning Teams (Humor column)
Comic Agile - Aligning Teams (Rubric Humor ) Somehow speech Manuel Pais, author of Team Topologies resource. Manuel showed in his presentation Comics about Team TopologiesI came across another funny one tonight. comic book about aligning teamsWhich is also funny and sad at the same time.
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[2/4] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Category Engineering)
\[2/4\] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Rubric Engineering ) Continue. story About this great book, I would like to tell you a little more about the content of the book. 5 parts 25 heads
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"Children of the Sun" in the theater-scene "Melnikov" (Category Culture)
"Children of the Sun" in the theater-scene "Melnikov" (Rubric Culture ) Last week I was on the preview of this play in the production of the young director Lisa Doronicheva on stage. Theatre - "Melnikov" scenes. The play is based on a play by Maxim Gorky, who wrote it. 120 Just after the events of Bloody Sunday.
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Book cover for “Software Engineering at Google” and “Do Like Google” Software development”
Covers for books “Software Engineering at Google” and “Do as Google” Software development”
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[1/4] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Category Engineering)
\[1/4\] Software Engineering at Google (Do it like Google. Software development) (Rubric Engineering ) I've been reading and re-reading this cool book for about a couple of years, right from the moment it came to me from Amazon. 2022 year. I've never read it in Russian from Peter, but the translation of "Do Like Google" at least puzzles me, even though I'm used to the mind games of Russian publishers. However, I did not read the translation, not because of its quality, but because I had a book in the original edition.
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Giiker Intelligent Four Square Chess (Category Kids)
Giiker Intelligent Four Square Chess (Rubric Kids ) My wife gave me this game for the new year. We played it a little for the New Year holidays, and then postponed it. But over the last week, I've been playing this game with my eldest son every night and we really like it - it has simple rules and it's dynamic. The picture shows that the game is a 5x5 field, players take turns and have to put their chips four in a row, the winner is the one who does it first.
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Analyzing The Impact of UML, BPMN, and ArchiMate Integration from User Perspective (Category Architecture)
Analyzing The Impact of UML, BPMN, and ArchiMate Integration from User Perspective (Rubric Architecture ) Funny. whitepaper It's about modeling notations that I've had a special love for since I was a student. The authors decided to combine different notations of modeling for the benefit of collaboration within corporations. The authors proceed from the premises 1) In corporations, there are many diagrams of different levels created with the help of ArchiMate, BPMN and UML And these diagrams contain a lot of knowledge.
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Questions to assess the realistic visionary strategy (Category Strategy)
Questions to assess the realistic visionary strategy (Rubric Strategy ) In the past. post I was talking about Theranos and Elizabeth Hzolms' approach to strategy. There, I listed a list of different points of view that are worth looking at to try to distinguish the real strategy from the fake one, and in this post I will explain them in more detail.
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The Visionary Strategy Club Meeting by SouthHub (Category Management)
The Visionary Strategy Club Meeting by SouthHub (Rubric Management ) One night this week I was at a club meeting. SouthHubWe discussed mission, vision, strategy and how this high matter affects the company. However, we also had a practical interest in how to recognize what a visionary like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, or a fraudster like Elizabeth Holmes, Sam Bankman-Freed, or Adam Neuman tells you about this mission, vision, and strategy. We were asked to watch the documentary The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley. ("Inventor.
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T-Education scholarship (Category Edu)
T-Education scholarship (Rubric Edu ) This is the fourth time. opened Annual scholarship program for talented students. It is available for students of Russian universities full-time education and any course, except for graduation. To get into the program you will need to pass selection. (exams, portfolios and interviews)Pass the exam and prepare a portfolio before 7 April inclusive. The program has 2 Tracks: analytics and development. For those who receive a scholarship, bunions in the form of 25k per month during the school year
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Adaptive Enterprise Architecture: Towards a Model. Image quality original (In pdf, they were just as bad in terms of resolution.)
Illustrations for articles " Adaptive Enterprise Architecture: Towards a model " Image quality original (In pdf, they were just as bad in terms of resolution.)
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Adaptive Enterprise Architecture: Towards a model (Category Architecture)
Adaptive Enterprise Architecture: Towards a model (Rubric Architecture ) Recently, I decided to read whitepapers on enterprise architecture and came across article Scientists from Morocco, where they are trying to cross the hedgehog with the already, or rather corporate architecture with scrum:) At the beginning of the article, the authors note that current approaches to corporate architecture (TOGAF, Zachman) They do not have the flexibility to handle the rapid, multi-level changes that characterize today’s fashionable digital transformations.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and a few illustrations of the model.
Covers books "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "On the hook" and some illustrations of the model itself.
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Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (On a hook.) (Category Management)
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (On a hook.) (Rubric Management ) Nir Eyal’s classic book explores how to create products that capture users and become an integral part of their daily lives. The book presents a hook model in the form of a process of four looped steps that allow you to form user habits. The following four parts of the model 1) Trigger (trigger) : triggers user behavior through external signals (for example, notices) internal motivations (emotion).
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The issue of monorepo and polyrepo in large enterprises (Category Architecture)
The issue of monorepo and polyrepo in large enterprises (Rubric Architecture ) Recently I read it. whitepaper 2019 Nicolas Brousse of Adobe analyzed approaches to managing source code repositories in large companies. The approaches of monorepository and polyrepository are actually compared (multiple repositories). Monoreps are used by companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft, and polyrepositories were in Amazon, Netflix, Lyft and so on.
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Lovers of mathematics (Category Math)
Lovers of mathematics (Rubric Math ) Yesterday I attended the premiere of this documentary by Olga Azhnakina at the Central House of Filmmakers in Moscow. The film tells the stories of three young mathematical scientists: Alexander Beznosikov, Darina Dvinsky and Alexander Gasnikov. Interestingly, their stories are told in the voice-over of the main characters, but at the same time we see how they work in leading scientific centers, including MIPT, Skoltech, HSE, Innopolis and Sirius.
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[2/2] Deductive Software Architecture Recovery via Chain-of-thought Prompting (Category Architecture)
\[2/2\] Deductive Software Architecture Recovery via Chain-of-thought Prompting (Rubric Architecture ) Continue. story about the SAR deductive process (Software Architecture Recovery) With the help of LLMs, I will tell you in my own words about the steps of this process.
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[1/2] Deductive Software Architecture Recovery via Chain-of-thought Prompting (Category Architecture)
\[1/2\] Deductive Software Architecture Recovery via Chain-of-thought Prompting (Rubric Architecture ) I read it before bed yesterday. fancy whitepaper SAR process (Software Architecture Recovery) using LLMs. I thought it was interesting to talk briefly about it.
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The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires and Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires
Covers for books The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires and Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires
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The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (Golden passport: Global mobility for millionaires) (Category Economics)
The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires (Golden passport: Global mobility for millionaires) (Rubric Economics ) Over the past week, I have read an interesting book with a detailed study of citizenship-by-investment programs, often referred to as “golden passports.” The book was written by Christine Surak, assistant professor of political sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Book-quest "Am Nyum. Press." (ForKids Category)
Book-quest "Am Nyum. Press." (Rubric ForKids) I read this book to my son before going to bed. 20 Today we’ve been through all the mini-games in augmented reality. In short, the description of the book promises to reveal the true story of the emergence of Am Nyama, and then Am Nyam will save the world from a super-villain from a computer game. I thought it was a good book for preschoolers - fun and interesting, and it's fun for parents to read about the relationship between Am Nyama and his "lady" heart, Am Nyash, whom he saves throughout the book.
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He recently spoke at X5’s Andrei Smirnov Confe, where he talked about soft skills and the importance of balance and hard skills.
Recently performer Andrey Smirnov from X5, where he talked about soft skills and the importance of balance between them and hard skills. There's a problem with sound quality on the record, so a brief sammmari of what I've been saying. 1) Evolution of development and the role of software Management Leadership Software Processes SelfDevelopment
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[2/2] Teaching Software Architecture Design - Building Intuition (Category Architecture)
\[2/2\] Teaching Software Architecture Design - Building Intuition (Rubric Architecture ) Continue. first Whitepaper about learning architecture, here I will talk about the rest of the article
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Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design • Kent Beck • GOTO 2024 (Category Architecture)
Tidy First? A Daily Exercise in Empirical Design • Kent Beck • GOTO 2024 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. speech Kent Beck, who once not only participated in the signing of the Agile Manifesto, but was the first signatory among respected gentlemen ... as he walked first in the alphabet. In this talk, Kent, creator of the XP methodology (eXtreme Programming) He talks about his extreme approaches to design and briefly about the book "Tidy First?" told earlier. If you briefly summarize his story in this talk, you get the following: