Book Cube: 2025, page 3
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 3: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- · #Infrastructure
[3/3] Google's AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era (Category: Infrastructure)
\[3/3\] Google's AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era (Rubric Infrastructure ) Continue. story About the evolution of Google networks, it is worth talking about how new approaches to the architecture of networks solve the challenges voiced in the Internet. past post
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[2/3] Google's AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era (Category: Infrastructure)
\[2/3\] Google's AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era (Rubric Infrastructure ) Continue. story As for the evolution of Google’s networks, it’s worth noting that they are now seeing a new turning point – the explosive development of artificial intelligence, which places unprecedented demands on the network. (For example, training large models dramatically change the load profile on the network.). In fact, there are as many as four separate calls that lead to a change in the design principles of network deployment.
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[1/3] Google's AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era (Category: Infrastructure)
\[1/3\] Google's AI-powered next-generation global network: Built for the Gemini era (Rubric Infrastructure ) Read it. story From Google on the evolution of their network by Bikash Koley, VP on Wide Web and Infrastructure. The main idea of the article is to show the evolution of Google’s private global network and new design principles designed to meet the rapidly growing needs of the AI era. (Advertise the availability of this Google network to GCP customers as a product CloudWAN).
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Gravitrax Designer (ForKids Category)
Gravitrax Designer (Rubric ForKids ) A few days ago, my youngest son turned 5 For the past couple of days, he's been gradually cleaning up gifts from family, friends, kindergarten cellmates and so on. And tonight we got to a gift from our friends, which is this Gravitrax builder. In fact, my son and his nanny built a simple track yesterday, and today the whole family collected one of the most difficult, available in this starter kit.
- · #AI
Code of Leadership 57 - Interview with Pavel Golubev, Principal DS at Microsoft, about DS & AI (AI column)
Code of Leadership 57 - Interview with Pavel Golubev, Principal DS at Microsoft, about DS & AI (Rubric AI ) Interview Pavel Golubev, principal data scientist at Microsoft, who, like me, graduated from Phystech. But then Pasha went into consulting and optimized supply chains, and then moved towards data science. At some point, he was abroad, where he managed to work on an analogue of Uber from Greece. (Beat)EPAM and then go to Microsoft and do DS projects for Azure customers in EMEA.
- · #Fintech
TOP-10 fintechs in the world by their capitalization (Filed under Fintech)
TOP-10 fintechs in the world by their capitalization (Rubric Fintech ) I have followed with great interest the development and plans of the world bigtechs, but suddenly I realized that I do not pay the same attention to players from the financial market closer to me. In this post, I decided to correct it and tell you about the TOP.10 Fintech. For each company, information on capitalization, year of foundation, number of employees, key business products, features of IT infrastructure and development plans are provided.
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[7/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[7/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) This post is the final in the consideration of a cool review article from the banned in Russia company Meta (previous issues: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6). Here we will discuss how the author sees the further development of infrastructure, architecture and AI penetration into the company’s systems.
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[6/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[6/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) In this post, we will continue to consider a cool article from the banned in Russia company Meta. (previous issues: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) And we're going to talk about how kids approach scalable application design.
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[5/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[5/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) In this post, we will continue to consider a cool article from the banned in Russia company Meta. (previous issues: 1, 2, 3 and 4) And we'll talk about reducing the cost of infra.
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[4/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[4/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) In this post, we will continue to consider a cool article from the banned in Russia company Meta. (previous issues: 1, 2 and 3). We’re going to talk about how developers within Meta can be more productive.
- · #DevEx
State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 JetBrains (Filed under DevEx)
State of Developer Ecosystem 2025 JetBrains (Rubric DevEx ) Finally got your hands on reading. report According to an annual survey by JetBrains. This annual report is on the list of things I’ve been tracking that provide interesting insights into developer productivity and the impact of AI on it. (right here told about). But if you go back to the JetBrains report itself, here are the highlights that I found interesting. (It is interesting to compare the results with last year’s report. here)
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[3/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[3/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) In this post, we will continue to consider a cool article from the banned in Russia company Meta. (previous issues: 1 and 2). We will talk about the processing of user queries, which is designed end-to-end to achieve the desired level of quality. (latency, scalability, reliability, ...) and cost.
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[2/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[2/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) In this post, we continue A cool article from the banned company Meta and talk about aspects of engineering culture, which allows the company to be successful. In short, these aspects sound like this.
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[1/7] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Category: Infrastructure)
\[1/7\] Meta's Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights (Rubric Infrastructure ) In January 2025 year curious about the infrastructure of Meta, whose activities are prohibited in Russia. This article is an overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure. (Facebook) The planetary computing system that serves billions of users of Facebook, Instagram and other applications. Author, Chongqiang Tan (Chunqiang Tang)Senior Director and Researcher at Meta summarizes key lessons learned over the years.
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Maldives 2025
Maldives 2025 So ended the holiday in the Maldives, where we flew with friends. It turned out that flying together with families is more interesting - children begin to hang out together in a children's club and not only, and adults have more free time for snorkeling, saling, diving and cocktails:))
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Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI (AI column)
Good News For Startups: Enterprise Is Bad At AI (Rubric AI ) In series podcast guys from Y Combinator discussed the study The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 " (see. my analysis)The results of which indicate that 95Percent of corporate AI projects fail. The discussion is based on the reasons for these results and why it is in the hands of AI startups, or more precisely, the guys discuss issues.
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[2/2] Hands-On Large Language Models (AI column)
\[2/2\] Hands-On Large Language Models (Rubric AI ) Continue. story As for this book, it consists of three parts and 12 heads (I've read four and a half chapters so far, so I'll talk about them in more detail.). But in short, the book begins with the basics of LLM, then the authors move on to their use for solving problems, and end with the methods of teaching models.
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[1/2] Hands-On Large Language Models (AI column)
\[1/2\] Hands-On Large Language Models (Rubric AI ) On my vacation, I brought along this visual guide to large language models, or simply LLM:) Since I perceive information visually much better than by hearing, as well as constructing schemes for visualizing complex topics, I found this book brilliant – it does not just explain complex topics, it shows them through visualizations and code.
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[2/2] The Effective Software Engineer (Staff column)
\[2/2\] The Effective Software Engineer (Rubric Staff ) Continue. story It is worth noting that in the book, 13 Chapters where the author moves progressively from basic principles to what awaits IC in the future, given the rapid development of AI. Below is a brief summary of each chapter
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[1/2] The Effective Software Engineer (Staff column)
\[1/2\] The Effective Software Engineer (Rubric Staff ) I came across this book when I was asked if it was worth translating. To do this, I had to carefully study the table of contents, and then read diagonally everything. 200+ pages. In short, it’s a book for effective engineers who strive to deliver more value: doing the right thing right, not just writing code faster. The book was written by Addy Osmani of Google Chrome. (lead of DevEx)The book is now available as an early release on O’Reilly. It is useful for individual developers.
- · #Metrics
How we searched for ecosystem effects: trial and error (Category Metrics)
How we searched for ecosystem effects: trial and error (Rubric Metrics ) I saw an interesting one. report Vladimir Abazov, Director of Non-Financial Services Analytics at T-Bank. In this report, Vladimir spoke about how the guys from the non-financial services of T-Bank checked whether they provide non-financial services. (In particular, shopping services) Significant contributions to classic banking products and customer behavior. Vova shares how they formulated the hypotheses, how and how they measured "ecosystem effects," what worked and what didn't.
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The hunt for electric sheep: the big book of artificial intelligence (AI column)
The hunt for electric sheep: the big book of artificial intelligence (Rubric AI ) Over the quarter, I managed the first volume of this book by Sergey Markov, in which he decided to describe where neural networks came from, how they are arranged and where everything goes:) I know many of the stories in the book, but in a shorter version. (Because of this, the story was often perceived more flat and in black and white style.). Interestingly, during my reading in the evenings of this book, she was awarded the Belyaev Prize.
- · #ProductManagement
Why Growth Playbooks Are Crumbling - and What’s Next (Category Product Management)
Why Growth Playbooks Are Crumbling - and What’s Next (Rubric ProductManagement ) I watched with interest. speech ProductCon SF 2025 by Elena Verna, Head of Growth Lovable. Previously, Elena led/advised growth at SurveyMonkey, Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox. She talked about the following topics. 1. Classic growth breaks down . SEO, performance advertising and linear funnels are losing effectiveness. New entry point - answer engines (LLM search engines, assistants)Users receive a response immediately, without clicking. 2. AEO instead of SEO .
- · #Politics
[3/3] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy) (Politics column)
\[3/3\] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy) (Rubric Politics ) The last part of the book review (1 and 2) We will talk about the applicability of the approaches of authors on the ground, or rather in the work of an ordinary technical director.
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[2/3] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy) (Politics column)
\[2/3\] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy) (Rubric Politics ) Continue. story It should be noted that the authors’ rationality model contains two layers. 1. Rationality of objectives (goal rationality). The survival of the state is almost always the first priority; the rest are subordinated to this. 2. Rationality of strategies (strategic rationality). Finally, strategic decisions
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[1/3] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy) (Politics column)
\[1/3\] How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy (How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy) (Rubric Politics ) I read with great interest a book by John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, in which the authors argue with the fashionable idea that states often behave “irrationally”. They offer an applied definition of rationality, closer to engineering thinking. Decisions are based on reliable cause-effect theory, and Decisions are made through meaningful, non-forced discussion. (deliberation).
- · #SRE
Technoshow "Dropputo": release 1 (Category SRE)
Technoshow "Dropputo": release 1 (Rubric SRE ) I saw it yesterday. show-off A new show from my colleagues at T-Bank. In this show, the guys talk about incidents on data platforms, with an honest analysis of the reasons and conclusions. Interestingly, the show is broadcast live, which should inspire hope in the minimum of editing and f...
- · #BookCube
The little prince
The little prince Recently, my colleagues gave me a figure of the Little Prince and his Rose, and a very beautiful book about the story. Today I assembled Prince and Rose and now he's guarding my desk with the Astronaut who used to do it alone:)
- · #AI
Research Insights Made Simple 18 Review of "AI in SDLC report" by IT One & Skolkovo (AI column)
Research Insights Made Simple 18 Review of "AI in SDLC report" by IT One & Skolkovo (Rubric AI ) We talked. Research from IT One and Skolkovo together with Dmitry Nemov, Director of Development and Products IT ONE. Dima is one of the authors of this study, which allowed to dig into the research objectives, methodology, results. Anyway, I was really excited to talk to Dima and I hope you enjoy the show too. And if he comes to you, participate in the study Impact of AI on T-Bank SDLC
- · #Games
Beyond reality: a gaming festival right in the offices of T-Bank
Beyond reality: a gaming festival right in the offices of T-Bank Sunday. 9 T-Bank offices in Moscow and St. Petersburg will be held in November geek festival board and role-playing games. On this day, the heroes of role-playing games, masters and fans of tabletops will gather to solve riddles, win and laugh a lot.
- · #Podcast
2 giga later - episode four (Podcast column)
2 giga later - episode four (Rubric Podcast ) Out. podcast with a light discussion of interesting those two presenters from T-Bank: Anton Kosterin and the author of this channel. We discussed the following points.
- · #Charity
Meet for Charity & Thread of Good (Charity Category)
Meet for Charity & Thread of Good (Rubric Charity ) It's traditional. participate At the Meet For Charity auction, where the subject of the auction is a meeting with me. Over lunch/dinner, I’ll be ready to talk about a variety of topics, including +/- any of the ones I bring up on this channel. The meeting itself will be in Moscow and I will try to make it in the first working week of November.) The funds collected at the auction will be sent to the fundThe thread of goodness".
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[2/2] The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups (Startup Category)
\[2/2\] The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups (Rubric Startup ) Continue. story About this podcast I will share key ideas that can be drawn from the review of the book discussed by podcasters from Y Combinator
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[1/2] The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups (Startup Category)
\[1/2\] The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups (Rubric Startup ) Interesting. release The guys from Y Combinator, in which they disassemble the bookSeven Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy» (2016) by the economist Hamilton Helmer. This book describes the concept of moat. (competitive ditch) A sustainable advantage that protects the business from competitors, similar to the moat around the castle.
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Waffle heart (ForKids Category)
Waffle heart (Rubric ForKids ) I was at the play with the kids yesterday.Waffle heart"at Fanny Bell's Lodge, which put the TO9 creative association together. Even if the show is for children from 8 before 14 But our almost five-year-old Kirill and already ten-year-old Maxim both perfectly fell under the spell of this solo performance. At one point, I caught myself thinking that the main and only actor perfectly plays all the roles, and his image and charisma resemble Jim Carrey. (You can see it yourself by looking at it. teaser play).
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This is our Roboruk testing ATMs!
🤖 This is our Roboruk testing ATMs! Manual testing of ATMs took up a significant portion of pre-release checks. The actions were often repeated and QA performed the same test cases. We decided to automate manual checks with Roboruk, but its native SDK proved too limited. We had to replace it with a bunch of ROS2 and MoveIt2 and teach the robot to autonomously calibrate using a 3D camera. Now we can release until 100 Human hours per month for more creative tasks. In the cards - the whole technical way: from a failed pilot to a working solution.
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Here is an example of how robots help with quality assurance. While I was talking about the generation of test cases by agents, increasing test coverage through the generation of unit tests, colleagues told about the real problem.
Here is an example of how robots help with quality assurance. Bye. told About generation of test cases by agents, increase of test coverage through generation of unit tests, colleagues told About a real robo-hand that does real manual testing of ATMs:)
- · #AI
Programming meanings (AI column)
Programming meanings (Rubric AI) I saw something interesting yesterday. speech Alexey Gusakov, CTO of the Search and Advertising Technologies business group in Yandex. Alexey spoke about changes in approaches to creating products – they are actively developing the ML and LLM stack and introducing neural networks into key services. (Search, Alice, Browser, etc.).
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What happens when a product is built not from metrics, but from an idea? The Spheres story (Category Product Management)
What happens when a product is built not from metrics, but from an idea? The Spheres story (Rubric ProductManagement ) This one report My colleague, Ivan Turlaev, who is already more 8 He has been developing mobile applications in T-Bank for years. The report was devoted to the creation and implementation of a new concept of the banking application – “Sphere”. The premise is simple: modern banking applications are designed the same way. Accounts, cards, payments, loans – all are laid out in the usual categories.
- · #Architecture
[2/2] Monarch: Google's Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database (Category Architecture)
\[2/2\] Monarch: Google's Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database (Rubric Architecture ) But this history The monarch is not over. Already in 2023 ICSE-SEIP Confederation23 The guys at Google posted. whitepaper (what? handler). This paper can be shortened to the following points. 1) Reason: Doubling year-to-year growth of QPS and row numbers, problems with support and further hitting the SLO 2) The team decided to redesign based on quality-attribute scenarios + lightweight UML models. 3) In fact, Leaf was decomposed on Leaf.
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[1/2] Monarch: Google's Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database (Category Architecture)
\[1/2\] Monarch: Google's Planet-Scale In-Memory Time Series Database (Rubric Architecture ) I finally finished reading the original. whitepaper About this interesting system for working with time-series data from Google. The idea came from my immersion in architecture. whitepaperThe system was redesigned using a quality-based approach and UML diagrams.
- · #AI
Review of Book "AI Engineering" 3 - Chapter 3 & 4Evaluation Methodology and Evaluate AI Systems(AI column)
Review of Book "AI Engineering" 3 - Chapter 3 & 4Evaluation Methodology and Evaluate AI Systems(Rubric AI ) Out. podcast with the analysis of the cool book "AI Engineering", which gives an idea of the evaluation of both the foundation models themselves and applications based on them. The book is disassembled by Alexander Polomodov, Technical Director of T-Bank, and Evgeny Sergeev, Engineering Director at Flo. In fact, we discussed two chapters in this series: Chapter. 3Evaluation Methodology" and "Chapter 4: Evaluate AI Systems”.
- · #Frontend
Vite: The Documentary (Frontend column)
Vite: The Documentary (Rubric Frontend ) He came out last week. documentary about Vite or as a side project of Evan Yu (Vue.js author) In a few years, he changed the whole front. Let’s start with why Vite is so important. It came in response to Webpack becoming too slow and cumbersome. At this point, Evan Yu, the author of Vue.js, was trying to make DevEx engineers write on Vue, and he tried a radically different approach: run a dev server without bandling, giving the modules directly to the browser through ESModules. Thus came Vite - a tool that:
- · #ProductManagement
How Products, Analysts and Designers Create Value Through Thinking (Category Product Management)
How Products, Analysts and Designers Create Value Through Thinking (Rubric ProductManagement ) Interesting. speech Kirill Nikolaeva, my colleague, director of analytics at T-Bank. Cyril Discovers What Jobs To Be Done Really Cost (JTBD) and why it’s not always the product’s goal to “remove friction”: sometimes the product should intentionally make the user think if it improves the quality of the solution and reduces risk.
- · #Career
[2/2] Designing Your Work Life (Designing a dream job) (Career column)
\[2/2\] Designing Your Work Life (Designing a dream job) (Rubric Career ) Continue. story About the book design dream work can be shown as the advice of the authors to decompose 4 weekdays
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[1/2] Designing Your Work Life (Designing a dream job) (Career column)
\[1/2\] Designing Your Work Life (Designing a dream job) (Rubric Career ) I recently read a book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans of Stanford that created the course. Designing Your Life. In their book, the authors transfer the principles of design thinking to the field of careers, where the key idea is the thesis that the dream job is not “found” – it is designed. So if you don’t like something in your current job, you don’t have to quit – it’s often enough to refram and design the role differently:)
- · #AI
AI in SDLC: the way from assistants to agents (AI column)
AI in SDLC: the way from assistants to agents (Rubric AI ) Written. extended versionwhich continues my previousIntegrate AI into development processes in a large company" Then I set a frame and talked about how to approach the implementation of AI in a large company. And this time I focused on moving to agency scripts and discussed the following topics:
- · #Engineering
The pearls of programming (Category Engineering)
The pearls of programming (Rubric Engineering ) The first edition of John Bentley’s book is almost complete. 40 Years ago, the year I was born. But I read the second edition, which came out in the early 2000s. It was a book that was different from the others - it taught you to think like an engineer, not just write code. The author of the book is a researcher from Bell Labs and Carnegie Mellon, co-author of the k-d tree algorithm and the improved quicksort. But he is best known for his column in Communications of the ACM, from which the book grew.
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Code of Leadership 56 - Interview with Alexey Gorbov about system administration & databases (Category Engineering)
Code of Leadership 56 - Interview with Alexey Gorbov about system administration & databases (Rubric Engineering ) Interview Alexei Gorbovoi, my colleague, who works in T-Bank databases and builds our Cassandra as a Service. In parallel, Lesha oversees our trebleshooting interview section for SRE, which I once oversaw and also talked about at conferences. In an hour and a half we discussed a lot of topics.
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Waterway (ForKids Category)
Waterway (Rubric ForKids ) We decided to ride a boat in Nizhny Novgorod. We came to the ticket office of Vodohod yesterday to buy tickets, but there were no tickets for yesterday. We decided to try to ride today and bought comfort tickets for the trip. waterway. We came for the landing, but they explained to us that even with tickets, we don't go on a boat. The website states that for children up to 5 A ticket is required for years, but it is free. There was no option to get this free ticket on the website and we decided to get it at the ticket office.