"No one has an advantage at everything. Teams, organizations, and even nations have advantages in certain kinds of rivalry under particular conditions. The secret to using advantage is understanding this particularity. You must press where you have advantages and side-step situations in which you do not. You must exploit your rivals' weaknesses and avoid leading … Continue reading Quote: Richard Rumelt on Strategy
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Quote: Learning to See
"Whenever there is a product for a customer, there is a value stream. The challenge lies in seeing it." - Mike Rother and John Shook in 'Learning to See: Value stream mapping to create value and eliminate muda' (The Lean Enterprise Institute, 1999)
Don’t waste a crisis – the context of the origin of Lean
Saying that Toyota is a much-studied company because of its pioneering role in Lean thinking and Lean leadership is an obvious statement to make. But Lean thinking came out of Toyota in post-war Japan because Toyota was severely constrained. The context was that Toyota didn't have the capital required to keep large inventories like their … Continue reading Don’t waste a crisis – the context of the origin of Lean
Quote on problem solving
"Most managers and engineers I meet have already had some kind of problem-solving training and even still have the course documentation on their office bookshelf. Yet I find almost no one following the problem-solving approach properly. This is a good example of how ineffective classroom training alone is for changing our behavior" Mike Rother in … Continue reading Quote on problem solving
A3 Problem Solving
Examples of A3 problem solving https://kanbanize.com/lean-management/improvement/a3-problem-solving https://www.lucidchart.com/pages/templates/a-3-report
Problem statement canvas templates
[Snippet] API schema testing categorization
Code-based end-to-end schema testCode-based controller schema testAuto generated end-to-end schema test with a fuzzerEnd-to-end schema testing with validating proxyFit into existing end-to-end test suite without writing new codeNNN YGuarantees schema conformance for responses across the whole stackYNYYCan identify unexpected responses based on fuzzy testingNNYIf run as part of fuzz testingFast feedback from testing service in isolationNYNNDoes … Continue reading [Snippet] API schema testing categorization
This week’s interesting links
Shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist "Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API." Yosriady/api-development-tools: "This is a collection of useful resources for building RESTful HTTP+JSON APIs. There are a lot of good tools and entire ecosystems out there! It can be overwhelming not knowing what options are available, so you can use this … Continue reading This week’s interesting links
API Security Booklist
API Security in Action by Neil MaddenPublished January 2021 by ManningPublisher quote about the book: "API Security in Action teaches you how to create secure APIs for any situation. By following this hands-on guide you’ll build a social network API while mastering techniques for flexible multi-user security, cloud key management, and lightweight cryptography. When you’re … Continue reading API Security Booklist
Scraper API – Extract Data from Websites
Scraper API provides a developer-friendly API for extracting HTML from websites. Here is a simple example using their async API which does the scraping in the background so you can retrieve the results later. I am using httpie as my API client. Submit the scraping job: https --verbose POST async.scraperapi.com/jobs Content-Type:application/json apiKey=replace-with-your-secret-api-key url=https://example.com POST /jobs … Continue reading Scraper API – Extract Data from Websites