2019-02-19 Tech Panel Meeting

Date

Feb 19, 2019

Participants

  • @Mike Judd

  • Deepak Goyal

  • @Ammu Irivinti

  • @Marc Hadley

  • @Katherine Feldman

Goals

Discuss feedback from Tech Panel on:

Discussion notes

  • Overall, it is nice to see guidance maturing and including modern recommendations and best practices.

  • Sections of the guidance that connect abstract principles with concrete examples at CDC -- these are very helpful to make these principles more understandable.

    • Showing examples of things we can leverage without reinventing the wheel could also improve buy-in of this guidance

    • Action: Take another pass through existing guidance to see if there are other such examples we can add.

  • In API Implementation Guidance, it would be helpful to link to examples of demonstrated workflows / best practices for implementing APIs with existing frameworks.

    • Action: Look for and link to examples using Java, .NET, R (plumber library)

  • Question: why is there a recommendation to render YAML in the API Design Guidance?

    • To clarify: the recommendation is to use YAML to represent metadata about the API, not as a data exchange format

  • Suggested next steps for additional guidance:

    • How to broaden the audience for existing guidance? Could we tie it to the strategic IT plan and/or link to it from other documents to improve discoverability?

      • Action: Engage with Chief Public Health Informatics Officer for suggestions on bringing this guidance to more stakeholders within CDC.

  • Next Tech Panel meeting to be scheduled as and when it is needed.

Action items

Pulled from above discussion notes:

@Marc Hadley Take another pass through existing guidance to see if there are other known examples of how abstract principles are in play at CDC (reference these examples where applicable).
@Marc Hadley In API Implementation Guidance, look for and link to examples of demonstrated workflows / best practices for implementing APIs using Java, .NET, R (plumber library)
@Ammu Irivinti Reach out to Chief Public Health Informatics Officer for suggestions on bringing this existing guidance to a broader audience (validate this approach with SDP Program Manager first).

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