Subtitle: The Working Method Behind the Explosive Growth of Google and Amazon Author: John Doerr (US) Publisher: CITIC Press Publication Year: 2018-12 ISBN: 9787508696881 Notes: OKR stands for Objectives and Key Results, a working method for managing goals and their completion invented by Intel founder Andy Grove. The O stands for Objective, which should be important and specific, action-oriented, and inspiring — for example, improving the stability of a system.

1. Lacking a Desire That Comes from Within Desire is what creates motivation. The desire to survive and the desire for something better are the wellspring that drives human progress. The stronger the desire, the stronger the motivation. An intense desire makes a person charge at the goal regardless of everything.

1. About Two Places and Three Centers As shown above, the two-places-three-centers architecture exists to improve the fault tolerance and disaster recovery capability of a system. When one data center becomes unavailable, traffic for critical business can be switched to another data center, which makes the system resilient to city-level natural disasters.

Subtitle: How to Break Out of the Decline of IQ Author: (Japan) Kenichi Ohmae Publisher: CITIC Press Publication Year: 2010-4 ISBN: 9787508619262 Notes: What is worth noting is when this book was written. More than a decade later, reading it still conveys its weight. The more developed the network, the lazier the brain.

1. Why We Need to Define the Application Runtime There are more runtime choices. Traditional application runtimes include physical machines, virtual machines, and cloud hosts. In the container era, the common runtimes are Docker and Kubernetes. These runtimes no longer present us with a single runtime choice. Application topologies are more complex.