Book Cube: 2025, page 6
Book Cube publications from 2025, page 6: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
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Code of Leadership 48 - Interview with Anatoly Panov aobut Engineering Management at Badoo, Lazada, Avito (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 48 - Interview with Anatoly Panov aobut Engineering Management at Badoo, Lazada, Avito (Rubric Management ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Anatoly Panov, who works as the technical director of Yandex Maps. Prior to that, Anatoly worked in Avito, where he was responsible for the technological development of verticals, and before that there were Lazada and Badoo.
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Charts that convince everyone (Data column)
Charts that convince everyone (Rubric Data ) I read an interesting and short book by Alexander Bogachev, one of the leading Russian experts in data visualization, infographics and data journalism. According to the author, this is the first book on the effective presentation of data from a Russian-speaking author. It includes eight chapters and a bunch of graphs and diagrams to demonstrate the author’s thoughts visually.
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The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI (AI column)
The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI (Rubric AI ) Jeffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate, has been vocal about the risks of AI for the past two years. And here it is in August. spoke At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas with a radical proposal for the security of artificial intelligence. He suggests embedding "mother instincts" into AI systems so that they take care of people, even if they become superintelligent.
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The state of VC within software and AI startups (AI column)
The state of VC within software and AI startups (Rubric AI ) I watched with great interest. regular The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, where Gergely Orosz chatted with Peter Walker, head of insights at the company Carta. Prior to Carta, Peter was a marketing executive at a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the COVID Tracking Project. They analyzed the current state of venture capital and its impact on startups, especially in the context of the AI revolution.
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define AI Engineer (AI column)
define AI Engineer (Rubric AI ) I watched with great interest. speech Greg Brockman at AI Engineer World's Fair 2025. Greg is one of the co-founders and president of OpenAI, who once started at Harvard, then moved to MIT and then dropped out to join Stripe as his fifth employee. K 2013 He became the first technical director of Stripe, and 2015 He left Stripe to co-found OpenAI with Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever.
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Research Insights Made Simple 15 Review of"What goes around comes around ... and around" - Part II (Category Databases)
Research Insights Made Simple 15 Review of"What goes around comes around ... and around" - Part II (Rubric Databases ) This one release “What goes around comes around ... and around” by Michael Stonebraker and Andrew Pavlo 20 years. Here, we talked about how database architectures have changed and why, and discussed the study authors’ findings about the future of databases. Alexey Svetlichny, my colleague who directs the development of the database department at T-Bank, helps me to analyze the article.
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Job vacancy of Java developer in a/b platform (Vacancy column)
Job vacancy of Java developer in a/b platform (Rubric Vacancy ) I’ve been writing about engineering managers lately, but we need not only hand-drivers, but also cool engineers for complex tasks. Today I wanted to talk about the position of Java developer in the a/b platform in the team, which makes the engine to count all metrics on experiments for the whole company. Cool if this engineer is senior level and an additional plus will be a deep knowledge of Apache Spark.
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IT picnic (Category Conference)
IT picnic (Rubric Conference ) This Saturday in Kolomensky will be another IT Picnic, which has been held for several years and is a family festival for IT professionals. This year, as usual, there will be separate directions. Lectures on R&D, Platform Engineering, Data Management, Productivity Management, and Research
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Lessons from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, Google, Salesforce (Category Management)
Lessons from OpenAI, Meta, Twitter, Google, Salesforce (Rubric Management ) I'm very interested. look This podcast from Lenny, where he chatted with Bret Taylor, a legendary figure in the tech industry with a unique career spanning all levels from engineer to executive.
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Adult life from Aaa to Z (Category Kids)
Adult life from Aaa to Z (Rubric Kids ) I bought my oldest son this book as a gift:) He was in the spring. 19 In the summer, he finished his first year, and then moved from home to his apartment and now lives independently. It seemed to me that he would need a kind of primer, where there are poems about alcohol, burnout, depression, f , pens, mortgages, excess weight and so on ... For example, here's a poem about sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation is your reliable companion. As soon as you get down on the floor in the morning.
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Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design (Category Design)
Dylan Field: Scaling Figma and the Future of Design (Rubric Design ) I saw something interesting. interview Dylan Field at Y Combinator AI Startup School. Dylan is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, one of the most successful design platforms in the world. Work on FIGMA began in the 2012 The year Dylan dropped out of university and, together with co-founder Evan Wallace, started creating a tool to work with WebGL in a browser.
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Lida's mouthpiece 3: Lead in search
Lida's mouthpiece 3: Lead in search Recently, I have been speaking less often at conferences, but I decided to make an exception for a tg-conference about hiring through the eyes of employers. This is the third Confa in the “Lead’s Chain” series, and this time the participants will talk about how the hiring market and processes are changing, when Gen AI changes the rules of the game, and services for job seekers are growing like mushrooms. Speakers will talk about how the process looks from that side.
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Research Insights Made Simple 14 Review of"What goes around comes around ... and around" (Category Databases)
Research Insights Made Simple 1 4 Review of"What goes around comes around ... and around" (Rubric Databases ) This one release “What goes around comes around ... and around” by Michael Stonebraker and Andrew Pavlo 20 years. Alexey Svetlichny, my colleague who directs the development of the database department at T-Bank, helps me to analyze the article. Alexey works with databases more 15 From small systems to large enterprise solutions. He now leads the team that develops DBaaS and develops database expertise in the company.
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Interview with Cloud Architect in 2025 (Category Architecture)
Interview with Cloud Architect in 2025 (Rubric Architecture ) Watched a funny five-minute show. video The modern approach to building solutions in the cloud.
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Head of Development at LLM Platform (AI column)
Head of Development at LLM Platform (Rubric AI ) At T-Bank, we are actively working to create Gen AI applications that are becoming the new de facto standard, as cloud native applications once were. And these Gen AI applications need their own platform. (Similar to K8s for cloud native). We've got one right now. position This platform will provide a set of tools for introducing language models into ecosystem products. The goal is to provide a constructor for creating AI assistants that does not require deep immersion in the LLM.
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Gruffalo's daughter. (The Gruffalo's Child) (ForKids Category)
Gruffalo's daughter. (The Gruffalo's Child) (Rubric ForKids ) I've been before. told About a cool children's fairy tale about Gruffalo, but today my wife read to my youngest son the continuation of this fairy tale about Gruffalo's daughter, and I decided to tell about her. And if in the last fairy tale it was about bragging and argumentation through an appeal to authority, then here is a classic story about a child to whom Gruffalo's father tells terrible stories about the formidable Mouse, who ...
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DORA Report 2024 (Category Engineering)
DORA Report 2024 (Rubric Engineering ) I'll continue the story. DORA report 2024 yearThe methodology I described earlier in two posts 1 and 2. Here I will try to tell you about the interesting results of this survey, which was conducted by 3K respondents from different professions from different countries. The study itself covered the following areas: Classic DORA metrics: throughput and stability (lead time, change failure rate, time to recover). On the basis of these metrics, the teams are clustered by levels: elite/high/medium/low.
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Quantifying large language model usage in scientific papers (Category Science)
Quantifying large language model usage in scientific papers (Rubric Science ) Interesting. whitepaper About the use of LLM in writing scientific articles. I came across it through a mailing list for ACM members. (Association for Computing Machinery)where reference was made to news According to Science, approximately one-fifth of scientific papers in computer science include texts generated by AI. I decided to look into the original article to see what the methodology looked like and what the results were. In the end, it turned out about the following:
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How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era (AI column)
How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era (Rubric AI ) Interesting. podcasting Y Combinator’s Lightcone presents a panel discussion with leading experts from the startup community, where they discuss how young people can build careers in the age of artificial intelligence. Ladies and gentlemen participate in the discussion
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Next-Gen AI for Science (Category Science)
Next-Gen AI for Science (Rubric Science ) Interesting. report John Jumper, Nobel laureate in chemistry, at AI Startup School Y Combinator. Interestingly, John received the Nobel Prize along with Demis Hassabis, who is much better known for playing the role of CEO of Google DeepMind. (I told you about him once. speech about AI reshuffle at Google). But I didn't know much about John, and this report gave me a little more information.
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (Category Management)
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 (Rubric Management ) The results were recently published. 15Go annual survey Developers who have passed 49k developers. The survey was conducted with 29 May 23 June 2025 yearly 62 question 314 different technologies. For the first time, the study focused on AI agents and large language models. (LLM) and community platforms. When it comes to interesting results, they are
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Research Insights Made Simple 13 Review of DORA Methodology (Filed under DevEx)
Research Insights Made Simple 13 Review of DORA Methodology (Rubric DevEx ) This one release The DORA methodology is the de facto standard in the world of devops and developer productivity surveys. In 2024 The year of DORA polls was completed 10 Over the years and during this time, a lot of cool conclusions have been obtained about the relationship of processes and practices within the organization and its effectiveness, and these are the issues that are of interest to management.
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Rise of the AI Architect (Category Architecture)
Rise of the AI Architect (Rubric Architecture ) Looked at the brief. interview Clay Bavor, co-founder of the startup SierraHe came from Google, where he led various innovative projects, including Google Labs, initiatives in the field of augmented and virtual reality. (AR/VR)Project Starline and Google Lens. Before that, he worked on Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive. He left Google in March. 2023 The year to found Sierra, along with his longtime friend Bret Taylor, the creator of Google Maps, and former CEO of Salesforce.
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The cover of "Stop Guessing!" Nine Strategies to Solve Any Problem and Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers"
Covers books Stop guessing! Nine Strategies to Solve Any Problem and Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers"
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Stop guessing! Nine Strategies to Solve Any Problem (Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers) (Category Management)
Stop guessing! Nine Strategies to Solve Any Problem (Stop Guessing: The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers) (Rubric Management ) Yesterday I read this interesting book by Nat Greene about problem solving. As I read the book, I caught on to the discrepancy between the content and the title, and then compared the names of the Russian translation and the original source. The original emphasis is on problem solvers’ behavioral patterns – this emphasizes that this is not about methodology, but about systematic behavioral skills.
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The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street (AI column)
The Finance Startup Bringing Agentic AI to Wall Street (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting this weekend. interview Chase and Arnie Englanders, brothers of serial entrepreneurs. Now they're developing a startup.
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He is the author of “Un Verdor Terrible” and “When We Cease to Understand the World.”
Covers books "Un Verdor Terrible" and "When We Cease to Understand the World"
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When we stopped understanding the world (Un Verdor Terrible) (Category PopularScience)
When we stopped understanding the world (Un Verdor Terrible) (Rubric PopularScience) This book Benhamina Labatuta, a Chilean writer, was very interesting to me. I took it off the shelf this morning and just finished reading:) This novel is from a unique genre, which the author defines as "an artistic work based on real events." She's transferred to 22 language and became a finalist of the International Booker Prize 2021 year.
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Code of Leadership 47-Interview with Daniil Kuleshovabout Engineering, Architecture & Ad Tech (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 47-Interview with Daniil Kuleshovabout Engineering, Architecture & Ad Tech (Rubric Management ) In the next issue of the podcast, an interesting guest came to me, Daniil Kuleshov, a staff engineer, who is developing an architectural function at the company level with me at T-Bank. For an hour and a half we talked about development, management, architecture and advertising technologies, and more detailed topics are presented below.
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Data abstraction and problem solving in C++. Walls and mirrors (Data Abstraction & Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors)
Data abstraction and problem solving in C++. Walls and mirrors (Data Abstraction & Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors) It's time for another retro book from my past. The Third Edition of Walls and Mirrors by Frank M. Carrano and Janet J. Carrano Pritchard's out. 2003 year. This year I bought this book to learn programming languages in my first year. It's funny that the roots of the book go back to the book. 1986 yearIntermediate Problem Solving and Data Structures: Walls and Mirrors"It was published the year I was born.
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Trends Across the AI Frontier (AI column)
Trends Across the AI Frontier (Rubric AI ) I watched a short one recently. speech George Cameron, Co-Founder and CPO Company Artificial AnalysisAn independent AI benchmarking company founded in October 2023 years. They specialize in independent testing. 150 A variety of AI models across a wide range of metrics, including intelligence, performance, cost, and speed, posting the results on the site. artificialanalysis.ai. The report itself was short but rich in analytics and forecasts, with key insights presented below.
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[2/2] How Dora Reports Are Collected (DevOps Research and Assessment)?
\[2/2\] How Dora Reports Are Collected (DevOps Research and Assessment)? Continue. story As for the DORA methodology, I would like to say that 2024 The authors found a fifth metric of the rework rate, for which the proxy meticulous is the change failure rate. To check, they added a question about the number of unplanned deployments that were needed for fixing bugs. As a result, the hypothesis was confirmed and the researchers supplanted four previous factors and a new fifth in two groups of software delivery: throughput and stability.
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Code of Leadership 46 Interview with Vladimir Kalugin about Platform Engineering (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 46 Interview with Vladimir Kalugin about Platform Engineering (Rubric Management ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Vladimir Kalugin, technical product manager at T-Bank, who is responsible for the development of IDP. (internal development platform) More specifically, the developer experience. Before T-Bank Vladimir managed to work in Tutu.ru, Tinkoff, MTS Travel. In two hours, we discussed many issues, among which the main ones are listed below.
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The Software Engineer's Guidebook (Software developer: A career guide for future seniors, techlids and staffers)
The Software Engineer's Guidebook (Software developer: A career guide for future seniors, techlids and staffers) I came here today. book Gergely Orosz, renowned engineer and authorThe Pragmatic EngineerThe most popular technical newsletter on Substack, dedicated to engineering teams, management, technology and career development in IT. In general, I expect a lot from the book, as I like the materials of Gergely - I watched a lot of interviews and speeches Gergely, which I talked about in the channel before.
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[1/2] How Dora Reports Are Collected (DevOps Research and Assessment)?
\[1/2\] How Dora Reports Are Collected (DevOps Research and Assessment)? If you’re an experienced developer or technical executive, you’ve probably heard of magic DORA metrics, which are often the baseline for evaluating development effectiveness. But have you ever wondered where they came from and how the benchmark for performance groups is assembled? So today I decided to talk about it. DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) This is the largest long-term study in the field of assessing the effectiveness of software development and operation processes.
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Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering (AI column)
Measuring the impact of AI on software engineering (Rubric AI ) I saw it. podcast "The Pragmatic Engineer" by Gergeli Orosz (Gergely Orosz). Laura Taco came to visit him. (Laura Tacho), technical director Productivity measurement platform for DX engineers. Interestingly, just recently, Zhenya Sergeev, an engineering director at Flo Health, and I discussed Research Insights Made Simple. DX Core 4 framework for measuring productivityAnd new. Whitepaper "Measuring AI Code Assistants and Agents" from DX.
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Illustrations for the book "Let There Be Light" and warmth! How much does energy cost?
Illustrations for the bookLet there be light... and warmth! How much does energy cost?"
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Let there be light... and warmth! How much does energy cost? (Category PopularScience)
Let there be light... and warmth! How much does energy cost? (Rubric PopularScience ) In our time of AI technology growth and the associated explosive increase in power consumption, understanding the principles of power grids has become a necessity... so I decided to read Andrei Kosko’s popular science book on this topic. The book was published in a distant 2019 It was a year when AI data centers were not yet on the agenda, but its relevance only became higher. Since it's nauchpop, the book on the fingers answers questions of the species.
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Small AI Teams with Huge Impact (AI column)
Small AI Teams with Huge Impact (Rubric AI ) I watched it this weekend. play Vikasa Paruchuri, Founder and CEO DatalabA company specializing in creating AI models for document analysis. In his talk, Vikas shares the old truth that less is better, and it works with AI teams:) Seriously, here are the main points of the speech.
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Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) (AI column)
Does AI Actually Boost Developer Productivity? (100k Devs Study) (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting. 20 minute speech Yegor Denisov-Blanch of Stanford University, on measuring the productivity of engineers. Egor presented the results of a three-year study by Stanford on the performance of 100k developers 600 companies.
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Patrick Collinson on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions (AI column)
Patrick Collinson on programming languages, AI, and Stripe's biggest engineering decisions (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting this weekend. interview Patrick Collinson, co-founder of Stripe and an enthusiast of programming languages. He was interviewed by Michael Truwell, co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, the company that created Cursor. The guys discussed a wide range of topics, including the future of programming languages, development in general, how things are at Stripe and beyond:) The main ideas, as usual, are below. 1.
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Research Insights Made Simple (Category Engineering)
Research Insights Made Simple (Rubric Engineering ) Finally, I got my hands on preparing podcast transcripts that are devoted to analyzing all kinds of scientific works in the field of software engineering. However, I managed to make short sammari for the first six issues of research insights made simple: 1. Whitepaper "API Governance at Scale" from the Google guys.
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Code of Leadership 45 Interview with Sergey Rogachev about Engineering Management (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 45 Interview with Sergey Rogachev about Engineering Management (Rubric Management ) In the next issue of the podcast, an interesting guest came to me, Sergey Rogachev, technical director at Gazprombank, who is responsible for the small and medium-sized business unit. Before Gazprom Bank, Sergey managed to work in a large number of banks: Tinkoff, Raiffeisen, Sber and even the Central Bank. For an hour and a half we discussed a lot of issues with Sergey, but they all seemed to develop engineers and technical managers.
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Inside OpenAI's Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman (AI column)
Inside OpenAI's Stargate Megafactory with Sam Altman (Rubric AI ) I like to watch documentaries about technology, so my eyes fell on it. documentary Stargate by Sam Altman and Donald Trump. This film was made by the guys at Bloomberg and is an exclusive study of one of the most ambitious technology projects in history. The film shows a massive construction site in Abilene, Texas, where a cost-effective artificial intelligence infrastructure is being built. 500 billions of dollars.
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Not an Experiment, but a Strategy: A Path to System-Based AI in SDLC (AI column)
Not an Experiment, but a Strategy: A Path to System-Based AI in SDLC (Rubric AI ) There's a tape. speech Nikolai Bushkova, a colleague of mine, who leads the engineering productivity group at the T-Bank R&D Center. By the way, this R&D center was established a year and a half ago, investments amounted to more 500 million rubles. The center is engaged in research in the field of artificial intelligence, databases, information security and engineering productivity. It cooperates with leading Russian universities, including MIPT, Skoltech and NSU.
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Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication (AI column)
Empirical evidence of Large Language Model's influence on human spoken communication (Rubric AI ) Have you ever wondered how our language works and where we get our vocabulary from? So scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development also thought about it and decided to conduct a study of oral speech and how it was influenced by large language patterns. With written speech, everything is clear for a long time, but oral speech required research. Its methodology was as follows:
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Research Insights Made Simple 12 - Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (Filed under DevEx)
Research Insights Made Simple 12 - Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4 (Rubric DevEx ) Release Measuring developer productivity with the DX Core 4From the guys from DX who are actively developing the theme of developer productivity. To analyze this article, a guest came to me, Evgeny Sergeyev, engineering director at Flo Health. Introduction, history and background of the emergence of DX Core 4 Basic principles of productivity measurement, survey problems
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Developing Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE and UML (Developing Enterprise Applications with J2EE and UML) (Category Software)
Developing Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE and UML (Developing Enterprise Applications with J2EE and UML) (Rubric Software ) Gradually, I continue to rake up my bookshelves and take rare books to the Book sharing corner. Today is the time for the book. 2002 A year about the mix of J2EE and UML. In the beginning 2000The software industry was going through a period of revolutionary change.
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How Replit Went From $10M to $100M ARR In Just 9 Months (AI column)
How Replit Went From $10M to $100M ARR In Just 9 Months (Rubric AI ) I saw something interesting this weekend. interview Amjad Masada, co-founder and CEO ReplitHe gave the hosts of Y Comninator's "The Breakdown" podcast. The interview turned out to be interesting for me, since I didn’t know where Replit started, what they were betting on, or how they made a pivot after that. 5+ years of work. In short, I have highlighted the following main points.
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Code of Leadership 44 Interview with Vladimir Kokhanov about Engineering Management (Category Management)
Code of Leadership 44 Interview with Vladimir Kokhanov about Engineering Management (Rubric Management ) Another one. podcast An interesting guest came to me, Vladimir Kohanov, technical director at T-Bank, who is responsible for the services of the mass segment of individuals. Prior to that, Vladimir worked at RedMadRobot, Tinkoff, and Vivid Money. For an hour and a half, Vladimir and I discussed many issues, but they all seemed to develop engineers and technical managers.