Book Cube: 2026, page 12
Book Cube publications from 2026, page 12: bilingual notes, sources, and original Telegram posts.
- #AI
[2/2] Measuring AI’s Impact on Developer Productivity at Meta (Category AI)
Meta’s findings show uneven gains, an adaptation dip and important limits to diffs-per-developer metrics, including differences by experience and research-heavy work.
- #AI
[1/2] Measuring the Impact of AI on Developer Productivity at Meta (AI column)
\[1/2\] Measuring the Impact of AI on Developer Productivity at Meta (Rubric AI ) Excellent. speech from the guys from the banned Meta in Russia, which I have reviewed 3To better understand all the details. Performed by Payam Shodjai (senior director of product management) Pavel Avgustinov (techlead) Meta’s developer productivity areas and they told a bunch of interesting approaches + technical details about how they approach this issue.
- #ai4sdlc
From PDLC to AI-native development (Category ai4sdlc)
From PDLC to AI-native development (Rubric ai4sdlc ) Wrote. article Medium is about how AI changes not only the speed of code writing, but the very organization of engineering work. We're gradually moving away from SE. 1.0 Process with roles, stages and handoffs - to SE 2.0Some of the engineering work is done by AI tools and agents. But it's not free acceleration. If you don’t rebuild review, tests, CI/CDs, and guardrails, AI simply moves the bottleneck further down the chain.
- #Productivity
What Makes a Great Developer Experience? (Category Productivity)
What Makes a Great Developer Experience? (Rubric Productivity ) Interesting. report Max Kanat-Alexander with DPE Summit 2025 (More about the summit here). Max talks about three whales of good developer experience 1. Cycle time How long does it take from the idea to the result? 2. Focus How much time the developer has to work without twitching 3. Cognitive load How much extra you need to keep in mind to do a useful task
- #Productivity
DORA AI Capabilities Model - Review of the Report (Category Productivity)
DORA AI Capabilities Model - Review of the Report (Rubric Productivity ) I read it this weekend. report about this companion model report 2025 year, which is called "State of AI-assisted Software Development" The main point of the DORA AI Capabilities Model is that AI itself does not guarantee improvement, but it strengthens the already existing sociotechnical system – good practices reinforce, bad too. The model 7 Capabilities that increase the chance that AI will have a noticeable positive effect.
- #Productivity
How quietly DORA became not four, but five metrics (Category Productivity)
How quietly DORA became not four, but five metrics (Rubric Productivity ) For a long time, DevOps Research & Assesment, or simply DORA, has had a long history. 4 metrics on which the clustering of teams on different levels of elite was built. These metrics were about delivery speed and stability. Delivery speed: deployment frequency and lead time for changes MTTR/time to restore service and change fail rate This story can be read in more detail in my Reading "Accelerate")
- #Productivity
You can write code faster. Can you deliver it faster? (Category Productivity)
You can write code faster. Can you deliver it faster? (Rubric Productivity ) It's opening. keynote report DPE Summit Conference 2025 (I'm talking about her. mentioned). It is told by Hans Dockter, CEO of Gradle Inc, who is associated with the theme of build automation and delivery pipeline: he founded Gradle Build Tool, led large enterprise-assemblies and has long worked at the intersection of tooling, DevEx and software delivery.
- #Architecture
"Architecture, Management and Impact of AI on Development"
"Architecture, Management and Impact of AI on Development" I had a chat for comments on this channel for a long time, but I didn't really talk about it:) Now I've decided to change my approach and invite you to this chat @ai4sdlc where we can discuss design, technical guidance and more. And of course, there you can talk about the impact of AI on development, as I now deal with this topic full-time in my work. I'll be in this part quite often. (At least to remove bots from it.). Anyway, you're welcome. https://t.me/ai4sdlc
- #Productivity
DPE Summit 2025 Gradle: Why this is one of the most rewarding conferences about engineering productivity (Category Productivity)
DPE Summit 2025 Gradle: Why this is one of the most rewarding conferences about engineering productivity (Rubric Productivity ) I like the conference. DPE (Developer Productivity Engineering) Gradle is held annually in San Francisco. I've often told you about the summit. 2024 year (For example, here: 1, 2, 3 and 4). This event focuses on engineering productivity and DX. (developer experience) And this year it's gone. 23–24 In September, the organizers posted the recordings of the sessions. (here playlist).
- #Engineering
IntelliJ IDEA — The IDE That Changed Java Forever DOCUMENTARY (Category Engineering)
IntelliJ IDEA — The IDE That Changed Java Forever DOCUMENTARY (Rubric Engineering ) I saw this one. documentary About IntelliJ IDEA that came out 5 March 2026. It’s an exciting story about how a small team started out creating a product that redefines the expectations of dev tools. In the frame are both employees of JetBrains and representatives of the industry who share their memories of how it was.
- #SelfDevelopment
How I Write Channel Posts (Category: SelfDevelopment)
How I Write Channel Posts (Rubric SelfDevelopment ) I am asked periodically how I write so many posts and if there is any help from LLM. So I decided to write about my approach to knowledge consumption and channel management. In short, the paiplan looks something like this.
- #AI
The third golden age of software engineering - thanks to AI, with Grady Booch (AI column)
The third golden age of software engineering - thanks to AI, with Grady Booch (Rubric AI ) Interesting. interview Gradi Booch, creator of UML and Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM, on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast. Gradi and Gergely Orosz, the author of the podcast, discuss how engineering's craft changes when the level of abstraction rises again (As was the case with assembler and then high-level programming languages.).
- #Agents
An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents (Agents column)
An Illustrated Guide to AI Agents (Rubric Agents ) While flying back from London to Moscow, I managed to read this. book I can recommend it to everyone. It is written by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst, the authors of the cool book Hands-On Large Language Models. told. The new agent book is as good as the previous one, and it’s still in the process of being written and only half the chapters have been written.
- #Architecture
[2/2] How AWS S3 is built (Category Architecture)
\[2/2\] How AWS S3 is built (Rubric Architecture ) Continuing this snapperI would like to share the findings for engineers and tech executives.
- #Architecture
[1/2] How AWS S3 is built (Category Architecture)
\[1/2\] How AWS S3 is built (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. podcasting "The Pragmatic Engineer", in which Gergely Orosz communicates with Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, VP of Data & Analytics at AWS, which leads the development/operation of S3. Simple Storage Service is one of the largest systems in the world, so you can learn a lot from this discussion.
- #Frontend
Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary (Frontend column)
Svelte Origins: A JavaScript Documentary (Rubric Frontend ) I watched another interesting one. documentary This time about the Svelte framework and its story at the end 2021 years. In the documentary we see the key characters of the community
- #AI
Building AI-Powered Products (AI column)
Building AI-Powered Products (Rubric AI ) I read something interesting. book Marily Nika, AI Product Lead (Google, ex‑Meta) Founder of the AI Product Academy. Marily talks about what a separate discipline of AI product management looks like and how to determine what exactly we build, how we measure the quality of a product, how much it will cost in production and why users will not leave in a week. This book came out in February. 2025 I tried to give out a playbook that connects the idea → product value → architecture → operation → metrics → risks.
- #Travel
St. Paul's Cathedral (Category Travel)
St. Paul's Cathedral (Rubric Travel ) Nastya and I visited this cathedral today and were delighted. The majestic building rises above the county and looks wonderful inside. In addition to the first floor, you can go down to the crypt, where historical figures rest, as well as climb under the arch of the cathedral and even higher, to see London around from the observation deck. In general, it is a must-see place...at least for tourists.
- #Engineering
[2/2] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Category Engineering)
\[2/2\] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Rubric Engineering ) Continuing this snapperI would like to share the findings for engineers and tech executives.
- #Engineering
[1/2] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Category Engineering)
\[1/2\] Retired Netflix Engineering Director On Regrets, Video Engineering, Hiring Stories (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. interview David Ronka, Former Engineering Director at Netflix (came 2007)Director/Principal at Meta (video technology)He gave Ryan Peterman, Staff SWE on Instagram. In this interview, David, now retired, shares a retrospective of his career and management decisions. The main insights are as follows:
- #SystemDesign
Knowledge Graph of the site system-design.space (Category SystemDesign)
Site knowledge graph system-design.space (Rubric SystemDesign ) Materials on the site about system design became too much and I myself needed a tool to visualize topics, chapters and connections between them. That's how I got it. knowledge-graphwhich shows 222 chapters 820 links between them. Each node is a chapter of the book, and the line is a semantic connection between the materials.
- #Travel
Science Museum (Category Travel)
Science Museum (Rubric Travel ) We were at the Science Museum in London on a weekday and it was really cool. The museum is located next to Imperial College London, has five floors and each floor is dedicated to its theme. Entrance to the museum is free, but you can donate as much as you want. We arrived two hours before closing and practically ran through the expositions of engineering, space, flights, computers, medicine and at the exit we managed to buy gifts for children. The next time we visit London, we will definitely come with our children.
- #Startups
Zero to One (Zero to one. How to create a startup that will change the future) (Category Startups)
Zero to One (Zero to one. How to create a startup that will change the future) (Rubric Startups ) Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir 2014 This is a summary of his Stanford course he had read a couple of years before. In this course, Peter was not talking about recipes for success, but about a shift in thinking: how to make a new category out of technology, rather than another product, which will be slightly better than competitors.
- #Travel
The studio where Harry Potter was filmed (Category Travel)
The studio where Harry Potter was filmed (Rubric Travel ) Yesterday, Nastya and I were at Warner Brosers Studios near London, where all the books about the Boy Who Survived were filmed. We looked at the pavilions, interiors, costumes, special effects and we really liked everything. You can see that a lot of work was done, but the result was a legendary film adaptation. We’ll be here in May, but with the kids.
- #API
The Rise and Rise of FastAPI (API rubric)
The Rise and Rise of FastAPI (Rubric API ) Interesting. mini-documentary About FastAPI, which lasts less 10 minutes. It talks about how FastAPI went through the ultra-fast growth of an open source project along a path of view: side-project → “industrial default” for the Python API. After the documentary, I became interested in the fate of this project and it seems that FastAPI “shot” not because it was “fast”, but because it gathered in one place:
- #Engineering
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ (Category Engineering)
A Brief History of Bjarne Stroustrup, the Creator of C++ (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. history Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, author of the C++ programming language. The whole story was filmed in the town of Aarhus (Denmark)where he was born in 1950 He studied at the University of Aarhus, where he also received a master’s degree. He then defended his PhD at Cambridge and then worked at Bell Labs alongside Kernighan, Ritchie, Morris and others.
- #Travel
Travel to London
Travel to London Yesterday we started. 10+ hours flew to London with a transfer to Baku, and then all day wandered around it. The weather was great: sunshine,10 degrees and the smell of spring. In the end, we found order. 20 Thousands of steps and managed to walk around the city center and return to the room. Hours in 20 Local time we're out, and this morning we're going on a personal tour of Leicester Square.
- #Management
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan (Category Management)
How to be a CEO when AI breaks all the old playbooks Sequoia CEO Coach Brian Halligan (Rubric Management ) Interesting. podcast Lenny, in which Brian Holligan came to him, co-founder and ex-CEO HubSpot. They discussed leadership and business in the age of AI: how to hire, grow and sell when old playbooks are bursting at the seams. Brian was CEO. 15 He now acts as an internal CEO coach at Sequoia and hosts a leadership podcast. Long Strange Trip.
- #Engineering
Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary (Category Engineering)
Laravel Origins: A PHP Documentary (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. documentary About the Laravel framework, which, in my opinion, occupied the niche of Ruby on Rails, but instead of Ruby, PHP is the language here. In the film, there are key people and they tell the story of the project. For example, one of the main roles for Taylor Otwell, who created Laravel and now acts as a BDFL framework. ("benevolent dictator for life")There is also a Jeffrey Way.
- #Architecture
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Category Architecture)
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Rubric Architecture ) This weekend, Grisha and I are from the club. talk About preparing for the System Design Interview and how I came to life the way I built the site. system-design.space.
- #AI
[2/2] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (AI column)
\[2/2\] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear (Rubric AI ) Interview It was very interesting and breakthrough, but always interesting, how to translate these ideas into a practical channel.
- #AI
[1/2] OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear (Category AI)
Peter Steinberger discusses local-first agents, tool use, data-management apps, private agent memory, command-line tools, and security controls in an interview with Raphael Schaad.
- #Culture
Musical in the attic (Category Culture)
Musical in the attic (Rubric Culture ) I was with my wife at this musical yesterday. Children's musical theater "Generation" And we really liked it. We had a schedule setup and we were both going there separately and we were late. 10 minutes, and my wife for half an hour, but as we got there, we were immediately allowed into the hall and we were able to enjoy a concert based on hits in the musical genre familiar from childhood.
- #Architecture
Modular Monoliths and Other Facepalms - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2026 (Category Architecture)
Modular Monoliths and Other Facepalms - Kevlin Henney - NDC London 2026 (Rubric Architecture ) Interesting. video Kevlin Henney, where he is an evangelist of monoliths, modular monoliths:) To cut it short, he says the problem was not monoliths, but tangled dependencies and blurred boundaries. Microservices do not treat poor decomposition. But they just make mistakes more expensive. (network, consistency, observation, operation).
- #Architecture
Adapting Google’s Ideas to Track Architectural Quality (Category Architecture)
A practical way to combine maintenance burden, dependency measures and developer feedback into an architecture-quality pilot, with warnings against individual KPIs and one-number technical-debt scores.
- #Architecture
Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment - a Large-Scale Study (ICSE’25) (Category Architecture)
Understanding Architectural Complexity, Maintenance Burden, and Developer Sentiment - a Large-Scale Study (ICSE’25) (Rubric Architecture ) I finally got my hands on writing about this. fancy whitepaper about the connection of the quality of architecture with the load on support of the solution and perception of the engineers of the project itself. Lead author of this article was Yuanfang Cai, a professor at Drexel University and author of metrics applied, and the Google Developer Infrastructure/Engineering Productivity Research team.
- #Games
It takes two (Games rubric)
It takes two (Rubric Games ) Almost. 20 I haven’t played a computer game in years, but this year we bought a PS for kids. 5 with lots of toys. But Nastya. (my wife) I didn’t miss it and bought this game. We played it sometimes in the evenings and in a month and a half passed. The game was very interesting, fun, sometimes psychological and suggestive of family life. The whole story revolves around the parents of a little girl who decided to divorce. Their mom and dad end up in their home as toys and they have a long way to go to become human again.
- #AI
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny (AI column)
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny (Rubric AI ) Interesting. interview Anthropic's Boris on Y Combinator's Lightcone podcast. The discussion revolved around Claude Code and how Boris created one of the most successful AI tools in the form of a simple terminal product, and what happens next. When it comes to key insights, they are
- #Architecture
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Category Architecture)
Discussion with Grisha Skobelev on preparation for System Design Interview (Rubric Architecture ) Tomorrow, 21 February, in 11 In the morning in Moscow, Grisha and I from the club {between parentheses } We decided to get together and talk. About preparing for the System Design Interview and how I came to life the way I built the site. system-design.space We will discuss exactly what is in the meeting program.
- #Engineering
History of Linux and UNIX! Who gave birth to all modern systems! (Category Engineering)
History of Linux and UNIX! Who gave birth to all modern systems! (Rubric Engineering ) Interesting. video About the history of operating systems from the channel PRO Hi-Tech, from which it is clearly seen that in the history of unix or gnu linux won not “one feature”, but a combination of ideas + institutions. (people, licenses, standards, communities). From the timelan of events, it is clear that many technologies took part in the course of this story.
- #DistributedSystems
The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math (Category Distributed Systems)
The Man Who Revolutionized Computer Science With Math (Rubric DistributedSystems ) In this video Lesley Lamport 8 He talks for a minute about special relativity, causality, distributed systems, and how it all fits together. This video is a short interview with Quanta Magazine where he explains the meaning of his classic phrase. You realize that you are using a distributed system when a computer failure that you didn’t even know existed causes the entire system to shut down and, for you, you can’t do your job.
- #AI
"Engineers are becoming sorcerers" The future of software development with OpenAI's Sherwin Wu (AI column)
"Engineers are becoming sorcerers" The future of software development with OpenAI's Sherwin Wu (Rubric AI ) Another one. show-off Lenny's Podcast, in which Lenny communicates with Sherwin Wu, who directs the engineering of the OpenAI API / Developer Platform. Sherwin describes a shift in the role of an engineer from “writing code” to “managing a fleet of AI agents” and making engineering decisions at a higher level of abstraction.
- #AI
How McKinsey Plans to Survive AI and Reinvent Consulting (Category AI)
Bob Sternfels discusses organizational change, human–agent work, outcomes, hiring, and recovery from mistakes. I draw practical lessons for engineers and technical leaders.
- #Software
Two Decades of Git: A Conversation with Linus Torvalds (Category Software)
Linus Torvalds recalls creating Git in 10 days, handing maintenance to Junio Hamano and the design principles behind its distributed, fast and reliable core.
- #DevOps
Inside Argo: Automating the Future (Category DevOps)
Inside Argo: Automating the Future (Rubric DevOps ) If you have Kubernetes in the market, then this film This is the story of how Argo grew from a workflow engine into a toolkit for automating depots and processes around them. (Workflows / CD / Rollouts / Events). In the frame there are key people who stood at the origins of Argo and who 2017 The year Argo was launched and how the community and a set of related tools gradually appeared around it.
- #AI
Dyad - local-first AI app builder: like Lovable/Bolt, only on your computer (AI column)
Dyad Local‐first AI app builder: like Lovable/Bolt, only on your computer (Rubric AI ) I told you about the product once. Lovable, a kind of "AI app builder", in which he wrote a request → received code changes → saw a preview → published for sale. In fact, Dyad does exactly this cycle, but locally . In fact. repositories Dyad is a local/open-source alternative to Lovable/v0/Bolt. (This is an alternative approach to cloud platforms.).
- #Documentary
[2/2] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Category Documentary)
\[2/2\] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Rubric Documentary ) Continue. story About the story of Nvidia, I should mention the insights of the film that came to me after watching it.
- #Documentary
[1/2] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Category Documentary)
\[1/2\] Nvidia’s Explosive Rise from Zero to Trillions (Rubric Documentary ) I watched this with great interest. documentary Nvidia’s transformation from a startup on the verge of bankruptcy to a company worth $3 The film spans the journey from the bottom to the bottom. 1993 One year before the current dominance of AI. I was interested to see what stages the company went through and what conclusions can be drawn from us as engineers and technical managers.
- #ForKids
Giiker Decipher (ForKids Category)
Giiker Decipher (Rubric ForKids ) I’ve become a fan of Giiker toys – they’re very tactile and also fun to play. So on this toy-decoder hooked my five-year-old son Cyril, with whom before going to bed now games in making a code, and then solving in turn. The essence of this game is what we have. 4 slots in which the color code is given. We have. 7 Trying to guess it. And guessing and guessing in the game is controlled by an orange torque, which can be pressed to set the code or check it.
- #Software
Borland: rise and fall of a software enmire - the delphi story (Category Software)
Borland: rise and fall of a software enmire - the delphi story (Rubric Software ) I saw it the other day. documentary Borland has created revolutionary tools for developers (Turbo Pascal, Delphi). I can understand how I wrote my undergraduate degree at Delphi. 6 (Cellular model of the world for calculations of biogeocenosis + climate for climate prediction). It was somewhere in 2006-2007 For years, Delphi was already in decline, although once they were on horseback and the future looked promising.