diff --git a/_posts/2016-09-12-open-tabs-3.md b/_posts/2016-09-12-open-tabs-3.md index 0bf5396..3e9d271 100644 --- a/_posts/2016-09-12-open-tabs-3.md +++ b/_posts/2016-09-12-open-tabs-3.md @@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ header-img: "images/bg-post.alt.jpg" [Open Tabs](http://dev.haufe.com/meta/category/opinion/) is my weekly column to share links and commentary based on the list of my open (browser) tabs. -Last week has been slow since it is prime vacation time here in Southern Germany. And that in turn is a good time to step outside the daily email, telephone and meeting vortex and do something truely revolutionary - work hands-on with some of the technologies on my personal short list. +Last week was slow since it is prime vacation time here in Southern Germany. It has been, in turn, a good time to step outside the daily email, telephone and meeting vortex and do something truely revolutionary - work hands-on with some of the technologies on my personal short list. -And hands-on work I did. I finally installed [Rancher](http://rancher.com) on my Digital Ocean cluster and put it to good use to bring my application stacks. I have to say I am very impressed - I used to be a big [Tutum](https://blog.tutum.co) fan but Docker's pricing has decisively moved it outside of my hobby range. With Rancher I have finally found an easy-to-use docker management tool, which is open source and can be installed locally. And in addition it uses native docker-compose file syntax for application deployment. What more can I wish for. +And hands-on work I did! I finally installed [Rancher](http://rancher.com) on my Digital Ocean cluster and put it to good use to bring my application stacks. I have to say I am very impressed - I used to be a big [Tutum](https://blog.tutum.co) fan but Docker's pricing has decisively moved it outside of my hobby range. With Rancher I have finally found an easy-to-use docker management tool, which is open source and can be installed locally. And in addition it uses native docker-compose file syntax for application deployment. What more could I wish for? {:.center} ![Rancher - Docker Host]({{ site.url }}/images/open-tabs/ot-3-rancher-engine.png){:style="margin:auto"} @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ In the Devops corner I stumbled over a Thoughtworks article on [When to Automate On the API and architecture side of the house I would like to read the new article from Netflix about the [Engineering Tradeoffs and the Netflix API Re-architecture](http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/08/engineering-trade-offs-and-netflix-api.html) and the corresponding blog entry from Apievangelist on [Netflix Public API Was The Most Successful API Failure Ever](http://apievangelist.com/2016/09/07/the-netflix-public-api-was-the-most-successful-api-failure-ever/). -Even though we keep talking about our Cloud journey, a large portion of our business continues to come from Desktop products - and based on my own experiences using the Apple App Store on my Macbook, I tend to see predictions of Desktop dying anytime soon very sceptical. This is why I am so excited about cross-OS desktop platform like [Electron](http://electron.atom.io) which originated from Github's [Atom Editor](https://atom.io) project. This is definetly an area I would like to get more hands-on. Since I have fairly large number of eBooks which I manage with [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com), I was thinking to maybe try my hands on an [Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS)](http://opds-spec.org/about/) desktop client for digital libraries. +Even though we keep talking about our Cloud journey, a large portion of our business continues to come from Desktop products - and based on my own experiences using the Apple App Store on my Macbook, I tend to see predictions of Desktop dying anytime soon very sceptical. This is why I am so excited about cross-OS desktop platform like [Electron](http://electron.atom.io), which originated from Github's [Atom Editor](https://atom.io) project. This is definetly an area I would like to get more hands-on. Since I have fairly large number of eBooks which I manage with [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com), I was thinking to maybe try my hands on an [Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS)](http://opds-spec.org/about/) desktop client for digital libraries. Which actually gets us back into the API story, since OPDS is nothing but an [Atom](http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287.txt) protocol tailored for digital publications. You can learn the story behind OPDS by reading the wonderful article on [How the New York Public Library made ebooks open, and thus one trillion times better](https://boingboing.net/2016/08/21/how-the-new-york-public-librar.html) which points to another wonderful article on [The Enterprise Media Distribution Platform At The End Of This Book](https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2015-RESTFest/), and yes - Hypermedia as an inspiration for OPDS. In that latter presentation you will find a link to [Library Simplified](http://www.librarysimplified.org), an open source eBook library system with beautiful designed mobile clients. @@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ For Internet of Things (IoT) I have currently two articles in my tabs: [Javascri You probably have read about the Apple event last week. Stratechery's latest blog post looks at [Beyond the iPhone](https://stratechery.com/2016/beyond-the-iphone/). Which brings us to business strategy in general. I am currently reading Kotter's book [Accelerate](http://www.kotterinternational.com/book/accelerate/) which has some interesting parallels to the debate on Gartner's model of [Bimodal-IT](http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/bimodal). -If you work a lot with eBooks like me you probably end up with a large number of "highlights"". To make those highlights usuable in my normal work flow I am currently going to my account on and take a snapshot of the page in [Evernote](http://evernote.com). This makes it searchable. But I am also haven't given up my idea of converting them (in markdown format) to beautiful mindmaps. You can find my "weekend" project [here](https://github.com/hlgr360/mindmap.js). +If you work a lot with eBooks like me you probably end up with a large number of "highlights"". To make those highlights usuable in my normal work flow I am currently going to my account on and take a snapshot of the page in [Evernote](http://evernote.com). This makes it searchable. But I also haven't given up my idea of converting them (in markdown format) to beautiful mindmaps. You can find my "weekend" project [here](https://github.com/hlgr360/mindmap.js). -Last but not least I had a very interesting discussion over at the API Academy (my mater emeritus) slack channel how the use of incentives can scew the results, as best seen in the recent news of [Wells Fargo employees opening fake accounts](https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/774236789624205312). An interesting pointer in that discussion was to [Goodhart's Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) which I had not heard before. It states that `When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.` +Last but not least I had a very interesting discussion over at the [API Academy](http://www.apiacademy.co) Slack channel how the use of incentives can scew the results, as best seen in the recent news of [Wells Fargo employees opening fake accounts](https://twitter.com/ritholtz/status/774236789624205312). An interesting pointer in that discussion was to [Goodhart's Law](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) which I had not heard before. It states that `When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.` This should cover it for this week. Plenty to read, think and catch up on. See you again next week.