Here is the list of books that I personally recommend.

1. Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops

Absolutely a must-read. In 2020, I built a team based on the book, and the team, in different configurations, remains a high performer. The team is built to optimize for frequent delivery. QA is highly automated. All unnecessary controls are removed. Agile, no Scrum. …

Ruff

The first one is in fact in PyPi, but written in Rust. Ruff is a high-performant linter and it's a perfect replacement for Flake8, isort, and pyupgrade. Instead of running linters separately, now we have an all-in-one solution that does the job in a fraction of the time of other linters.

DiskCache

DiskCache is a disk and …

After 2 years of COVID and working from home, we are back in the office. And this week we have a hackathon in AMBOSS. I decided to join a team of people I haven't worked with before.

This time we haven't started from the technology and we didn't jump into coding but spent a full day trying to understand …

Before 2006 I thought that science fiction was dead. But then Blindsight by Peter Watts was published, and I read it 4 times in a row. Watts set the bar extremely high. The book is described as hard science fiction on Wikipedia. And I agree because the references section of the book looks like a section from a science …