A Guide to Book Cube

My name is Alexander Polomodov. For five years I’ve been writing here almost every day about books, papers, and talks on architecture, engineering leadership, and AI in software development. There are already more than 4 500 posts, so here’s a map.

Topics (tap a tag to see every post on that subject) • #Architecture #SystemDesign #DistributedSystems — architecture and system design • #AI #AI4SDLC #Agents #ML — AI in software development and agentic systems • #Management #Leadership #Processes — engineering management and leadership • #Engineering #DevEx #Productivity #Metrics — engineering culture and productivity • #SRE #PlatformEngineering #Devops — reliability and platforms • #Research #Whitepaper — research papers and write-ups • #Conference — conference talks • #Books #PopularScience #History #ForKids — books, popular science, technology history, and children’s books • #Career #SelfDevelopment — careers and personal development

Where else to find me • Tell Me About Tech on YouTube — live streams, Research Insights Made Simple, and Code of Leadership: youtube.com/@TellMeAboutTech • TellMeAbout.Tech — my former main blog, now home to English versions of selected longreads • polomodov.tech — summaries, talks and slides, and the searchable post archive • system-design.space — an open textbook on system design (t.me/book_cube/4267) • Message me directly: @apolomodov