Technical Building Blocks: A Technology Reference for Real-world Product Development

Book Description

This book offers comprehensive coverage of the various technologies and techniques used to build technical products. You will learn how technical product development is collaboratively done across multiple technical teams, primarily those in software engineering, data engineering, and AI/ML engineering. You will also be introduced to the technologies these teams use to develop features and products.

Many roles in the organization work alongside these technical product development teams and act as liaisons between them, the stakeholders, the customers, and the leadership team. The people in these roles must understand technical aspects ranging from system design to artificial intelligence, and be able to engage in technical discussions with the engineering teams to determine the pros, cons, and risks associated with the development of a technology product or feature.

Technical Building Blocks will help you master these technical skills. The book has just the right level of technical details to neither overwhelm with unnecessary technical depth, nor be superficial.

From concepts to code snippets, authors Gaurav Sagar and Vitalii Syrovatskyi cover it all to give you an understanding of the engineer’s mind and their work. Special emphasis on figures and charts will help you grasp complex ideas more quickly. After reading this book, you’ll be able to effectively communicate with engineering teams, provide valuable inputs in the system design review meetings of upcoming features and products, synthesize and simplify technical updates for cross-functional teams and stakeholders, and pass those dreaded technical interviews at your dream companies.

What You Will Learn

• Intrinsic details of the teams and techniques used for product development
• Concepts of cloud computing and its deployment models
• System design fundamentals required to architect features and products
• Evolution of data pipelines and data storage solutions to support big data
• ML and deep learning algorithms to build intelligence into products
• Securing products through identity and access management using cryptography
• Role and working of blockchains, smart contracts, NFTs, and dApps in Web3

Who This Book is For

Professionals in roles who work with software engineering teams and want to build their technical muscle, such as product managers, program managers, business analysts, project managers and product owners. Also useful for those preparing to crack the technical interview for these roles.

中文：

书名：技术构建块: 实际产品开发的技术参考

本书全面介绍了用于构建技术产品的各种技术和技术。您将了解如何在多个技术团队 (主要是软件工程，数据工程和AI/ML工程) 中协作完成技术产品开发。还将向您介绍这些团队用于开发功能和产品的技术。

组织中的许多角色与这些技术产品开发团队一起工作，并充当他们，利益相关者，客户和领导团队之间的联络人。担任这些角色的人员必须了解从系统设计到人工智能的技术方面，并能够与工程团队进行技术讨论，以确定与技术产品或功能开发相关的利弊和风险。

技术积木将帮助您掌握这些技术技能。这本书的技术细节水平恰到好处，既不被不必要的技术深度淹没，也不肤浅。

从概念到代码片段，作者Gaurav Sagar和Vitalii Syrovatskyi涵盖了所有内容，以使您了解工程师的思想和工作。特别强调数字和图表将帮助您更快地掌握复杂的想法。阅读本书后，您将能够有效地与工程团队进行沟通，在即将到来的功能和产品的系统设计评审会议中提供有价值的投入，为跨职能团队和利益相关者综合和简化技术更新，并在您梦想中的公司中传递那些可怕的技术面试。

你将学到什么

• 用于产品开发的团队和技术的内在细节
• 云计算概念及其部署模型
• 系统设计基础架构功能和产品
• 支持大数据的数据管道与数据存储方案演进
• ML和深度学习算法将智能打造为产品
• 通过使用密码学的身份和访问管理来保护产品安全
• Web3中区块链、智能合约、nft和dApps的角色和工作

这本书是给谁的

与软件工程团队合作并希望建立自己的技术力量的专业人员，例如产品经理，项目经理，业务分析师，项目经理和产品所有者。对于那些准备破解这些角色的技术面试的人也很有用。