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"headless" I don't know what field they are operating in, but in the world of financial publishing, thats called multiplatform. Now, the thing that they gloss

"headless" I don't know what field they are operating in, but in the world of financial publishing, thats called multiplatform. Now, the thing that they gloss over, and the actual hard part of all of this, is not the headless bit, its getting your content in order. Organising your content so you can syndicate it to people that want it is really, really hard at scale. Its almost never a technical challenge, it a question of selling and making sure people put the right tags on the right content. At "Large Financial News company" The basic idea was there, the execution was lacking though: GUI(in fat client and web) -> content database -> frontends When stuff was being redesigned, most of the effort was in the front end. The content already had an API, it was polluted by politics and idiot architects, but it was there.

zdragnar 7y ago
"Headless" is a pretty old term in IT, basically for anything that operates without a dedicated monitor or view as part of the primary access. For instance, Chrome not too long ago released the capability to run headless. Headless servers are hardware servers without a physical monitor, keyboard or mouse (i.e. you typically interact with it via ssh or RDP). Microsoft has also used the term for windows servers and embedded devices for years.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  But that's not what it's being used to mean here. The 'head' for a CMS would be the interface you use to edit it, which is orthogonal to the intermingling between the data and the frontend templating that they're actually talking about.
- KaiserPro 7y ago
  Thank you for giving such an indepth summary of headless and all its meanings. I'm glad we are all now up to speed. However as you've highlighted, its not whats going on here. I will accept: o Content-as-a-service o multi-play publishing o API driven syndication o multiplatform publishing but "headless"? Its a half arsed term to supposedly differentiate them in a crowded marketplace.

zdragnar 7y ago

"Headless" is a pretty old term in IT, basically for anything that operates without a dedicated monitor or view as part of the primary access. For instance, Chrome not too long ago released the capability to run headless. Headless servers are hardware servers without a physical monitor, keyboard or mouse (i.e. you typically interact with it via ssh or RDP). Microsoft has also used the term for windows servers and embedded devices for years.

Dylan16807 7y ago
But that's not what it's being used to mean here. The 'head' for a CMS would be the interface you use to edit it, which is orthogonal to the intermingling between the data and the frontend templating that they're actually talking about.
KaiserPro 7y ago
Thank you for giving such an indepth summary of headless and all its meanings. I'm glad we are all now up to speed. However as you've highlighted, its not whats going on here. I will accept: o Content-as-a-service o multi-play publishing o API driven syndication o multiplatform publishing but "headless"? Its a half arsed term to supposedly differentiate them in a crowded marketplace.