Enabling change on the 7digital Catalogue

August 26, 2014

Since February 2014 I’ve been working on the Content Discovery Team here at 7digital, we are responsible for every endpoint listed under Catalogue API here - http://developer.7digital.com/resources/api-docs/catalogue-api – and probably a few more. This is a mix of discovery endpoints and core catalogue endpoints often split by artist, albums (releases) and tracks. The discovery side of it consists of searching, recommendations, charts, genres, new and popular tracks and albums. The core catalogue endpoints are requests to the API for an album, tracks on an album, an artist, an artist’s releases or just track information using a 7digital unique identifier (referred to as releaseId, trackId and artistId)...

Ten deploys a day and still moving slowly

July 21, 2013

There’s a feeling within my team at 7digital that we’re taking a long time to complete projects or features. Oddly this isn’t something we are currently measuring. We do though measure the throughput and cycle time of tasks. Tasks are items of work which the team create as a small iterative step towards a larger feature or story. This is useful for visualising the teams productivity, with the idealistic target of low cycle time and high throughput...