★ Anatoly Volkhover

Great software architects aren’t born. They are a product of decades of building real-life solutions and relentless learning. They become really good at their trade closer to the retirement age. But most startups are fostered by young entrepreneurs who dare to try but lack the experience. They also lack the $$ to hire a silver-haired architect to join their team from day one. Left to their own faculties, the entrepreneurs and their engineering teams quickly get on the path of learning from… Show more

Great software architects aren’t born. They are a product of decades of building real-life solutions and relentless learning. They become really good at their trade closer to the retirement age. But most startups are fostered by young entrepreneurs who dare to try but lack the experience. They also lack the $$ to hire a silver-haired architect to join their team from day one. Left to their own faculties, the entrepreneurs and their engineering teams quickly get on the path of learning from their own mistakes. Eventually, they discover this is the most expensive way of learning. Over time they get better, and some become the true masters of the craft – but way too late to make a difference for their early-day projects.

This book is meant to break the vicious circle. It isn’t a textbook, at least not in the traditional sense. It is a business-centric practical guide to software architecture, intended for software engineers, technology executives, students of computer science, and tech-savvy entrepreneurs who want to de-risk their entrepreneurial endeavors or to fast-track their careers in software engineering. The recipes in this book are highly practical, battle-tested, and current for building mid- to large-scale systems in 2019. Show less

This book is for anyone who is serious about landing their next job. It specifically focuses on gaining an unfair advantage in a face to face interview, over all other candidates that possess similar professional skills. This book will teach you how to prepare yourself, and how to subtly manipulate your interviewers, to make YOU the candidate of choice—in many cases, deeply on the subconscious level—by applying techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Until recently, these techniques… Show more

This book is for anyone who is serious about landing their next job. It specifically focuses on gaining an unfair advantage in a face to face interview, over all other candidates that possess similar professional skills. This book will teach you how to prepare yourself, and how to subtly manipulate your interviewers, to make YOU the candidate of choice—in many cases, deeply on the subconscious level—by applying techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). Until recently, these techniques have only been employed in secret by psychologists, politicians, and spies. The purpose of this book is to place those techniques into YOUR hands and make them an instrument for achieving success.

The book is short enough to be read in a few hours. It is also densely packed with advice. Read it with focus, do the recommended exercises, and come to your next job interview fully equipped to win. Show less

The paper discusses design and implementation issues related to online transaction processing (OLTP) for object-oriented databases in heterogeneous environments. In the described two-layered scheme, nested transactions are controlled at the lower level of a distributed file system, uniformly for all types of data and indexes. The paper focuses on the advantages of this scheme, as well as on the algorithms of its efficient support. The approach has been implemented in COOL-NT (Common… Show more

The paper discusses design and implementation issues related to online transaction processing (OLTP) for object-oriented databases in heterogeneous environments. In the described two-layered scheme, nested transactions are controlled at the lower level of a distributed file system, uniformly for all types of data and indexes. The paper focuses on the advantages of this scheme, as well as on the algorithms of its efficient support. The approach has been implemented in COOL-NT (Common Object-Oriented Language - New Technology) – an object-oriented application development platform for medium to large-scale OLTP systems. Show less