2020-09-29: Yes, sometimes it’s “technical debt” that can make sense to pay off later. But there’s no paying back with fundamentally bad design choices in the choreography of systems and data. You’ll live with them until you tear everything down and start from scratch.
2020-09-24: Irgendwann würde ich ihn gerne bauen: den Knowledge Graph, über den sich unser “Content”, Themen, Fakten und Produkte systemübergreifend verknüpfen lassen und der so bisher verstecktes Wissen einfach zugänglich macht.
2020-09-24: Schöne Erkenntnis im #scoop20 „Newsroom Transition“ Panel: Chefredaktionen müssen sich heute intensiv mit Technologie beschäftigen, flexibel anpassbare Systeme sind wichtig. https://x.com/nextmediahh/status/1309126479184359427
2020-09-21: “The developer should create a reusable component that can be easily dropped into any workflow by a non-technical person. If this is not possible, then either the component has not been well defined or there is already too much logic embedded in the workflow itself.” https://www.southpawtech.com/fantasy-of-the-no-code-utopia/
2020-09-19: Our DAM production system had 7 incidents this year, 6 of them due to network issues (hardware failures, but more often messed-up maintenance or configuration). Sorry networking guys, but sometimes it seems like the complexity is way over your head 🤔
2020-09-09: Creating accounts and setting permissions are the most tiresome tasks when “onboarding” a new external developer: for VPN, Microsoft Teams, Confluence, Jira, Git, (private) cloud, plus apps they’re extending or integrating…
2020-09-01: Photos we publish on the @DerSPIEGEL Web site can now be licensed more easily, thanks to 1) agencies and photographers using IPTC, 2) our site leaving IPTC intact, 3) Google Images’ new “Licensable Images” feature https://iptc.org/news/googles-licensable-images-feature-is-live/ :
2020-08-31: I never really “got” Kafka, and remember the original NYT post making me strongly dislike their approach. This update doesn’t convince me either that Kafka is a good replacement for a database: https://open.nytimes.com/publishing-assets-we-had-a-few-c3a844e98bac
2020-08-25: I occasionally came across OpenAPI / Swagger but haven’t really worked with it yet. It seems to be even more useful than I thought… https://blog.postman.com/openapi-specification-postman-how-to/
2020-08-23: A nice way of saying “no” as a product manager: “Your pet idea is within the possibility space, but if conditions are not met, it won’t happen” https://x.com/PavelASamsonov/status/1297035783669460992
2020-08-19: Got to play with a current product’s API… Turns out it’s a SOAP API that seems to be from 2005; just as ill-documented and ill-designed as most APIs were back then. I’m so happy that most Web service implementors have learnt about “developer experience” since.
2020-08-19: I finally got the @Camunda image https://hub.docker.com/r/camunda/camunda-bpm-platform/ to run on @openshift. Hurdles: 1) OpenShift 3 catalog’s PostgreSQL provisioning is broken. 2) I had to learn how to mount a volume for PostgreSQL data. 3) OpenShift non-root workaround was required: https://forum.camunda.io/t/running-camunda-docker-image-on-rhel-openshift-platform/9545
2020-07-23: As an employee (team member), parent and musician, I keep reflecting upon teams / groups, hierarchy and power, from different angles:
I still believe that a healthy team, operating within a healthy environment, could work in full autonomy. „Manager“ could be just a support / service role responsible for unpopular tasks (like a manager in the music business who the band can fire anytime). But…
Since individuals, teams and organizations all have issues, a „boss“ manager who has power over the team can help with conflict resolution and decision making. Still…
Managers (or parents, or band leaders) who act „bossy“ all the time are doing it wrong. Here‘s a big „thank you“ to all my managers who supported and empowered the team, and exerted as little power as possible.
2020-07-02: “To me, the quality of people and culture is the most important ingredient for success for any company.” https://www.woodwing.com/en/blog/celebrating-20-years-of-woodwing
2020-07-02: Die Firma @digicol (wo ich 18 Jahre gearbeitet / gelernt / gelebt habe) wurde von drei außergewöhnlich feinen und begabten Menschen gegründet – @dezi62, @oleolseno und @thieso2 (“/dot” 😉). Jetzt ist auch der letzte “von Bord gegangen”: https://www.stibodx.com/resources/stibodx-acquires-digital-collections Alles Gute!
2020-07-01: Relaunch erfolgreich – nach https://www.spiegel.de/ kommen jetzt auch auf https://www.manager-magazin.de/ die Bilder aus @woodwingsoft Elvis / Assets. #DAM https://devspiegel.medium.com/agilit%C3%A4t-deluxe-wie-ein-relaunch-auch-in-corona-zeiten-gelingen-kann-125edef86df8