JSON Patch with Swagger

I you want to specify JSON Patch requests, you need some more sugar.

Scaling Build

Autonomous Teams at Spotify

Here is the according script:

Click to access SpotifyScaling.pdf

Killing robots will destroy our societies

Moving the decicion to kill from humans to robots will lead to anymous wars. Only a very few people would then be needed for wars, hence the power will concentrate in the hands of a few people.

The way we solve conflicts shapes our societies, so will autonomous kill roboters do. They have the potential to destroy our democratic societies by using the giant pool of data we generate in the internet. Using that data they can easily identify super-nodes in our society and eliminate the oposition,

Shell Script Automation

https://github.com/ianmiell/shutit

Designing an API

A really eye-opening talk by netflix how they designed their API and why did not follow the trends. Goals they followed:

• one request delivers the entire data needed to render a page
• no chatty clients
• customers create the REST endpoints themselfes, netflix solely provides a groovy versioned sdk to aggregate data

Communication Power in Network Societies

Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells on how power is created through communication.