Peter Brouwers, Author at bol.com Techlab

The YP Bookclub – Never Split the Difference – Podcast

Introduction Another week another book discussion. Maybe we can start a second Techlab Podcast dedicated to interesting books? We got some great responses on the last week’s episode about team topologies and we had a good opportunity. So it is time for the Never Split the Difference – Podcast. In earlier episodes, we talked with YP’s about their side projects (behind the mask – platform for the hospital to share experiences and Real-time sales dashboard), about the YP program itself and participating in competitions, the BAPC2020. This time we sit…

The YP Bookclub – Never Split the Difference – Podcast

Team Topologies a DSL for organizational design – Podcast

Introduction A lot of people involved in the design and structuring of organizations could learn a lot from the book Team Topologies. Our guest describes it in the episode a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for organizational design and evolution. The header of the website and the subtitle of the suggest that it is the way for organizing business and technology teams for fast flow. In the episode, we discuss the 4 kind of teams and the 3 ways of interactions between these teams that are at the core of Team…

Team Topologies a DSL for organizational design – Podcast

TypeScript, where we love strict

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 22-01-2021
Category: Podcast Tags: Development Front-End software engineering JavaScript programminglanguage Typescript

Introduction It sparked in the episode Interactive heavy applications we should record a podcast episode on TypeScript. Around the same time, we came in contact with Hackages. A company focusing on learning tech. Time to bring the engineers together and dive deeper into TypeScript. Typescript is mentioned amongst the 5 most promising languages in 2020. We talk about: What is typescript and how do you benefit? What are good implementation strategies? Bol.com examples Examples from Hackages Maturity in the usage of Typescript Guests Niels van Midden; Front End software engineer…

GraphQL – start but start small

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 13-01-2021
Category: Podcast Tags: Development software engineering API GraphQL Rest Definition

Introduction We want to share our approach to IT to learn and entertain you. In this episode, we are happy to have an external guest at the table discussing with our internal guest. GraphQL stands for Graph Query Language and is used for interacting with services from the frontend. We are talking about API’s here. Explore with us the possibilities this approach has to offer and how it could even help you to speeds up innovation in the front-end. Like our guest mentions: GraphQL is a specification not an implementation…

BAPC2020 – Olympic spirit or serious business?

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 4-01-2021
Category: Podcast Tags: Culture software engineering Engineering Culture Young Professional Program YP Championship competition BAPC

Introduction No rhythm like algorithms. We have been talking in the podcast about programming contest before. For example, about our own Spaces Championship and Advent of code, which also takes place at the end of the year. Today we’ll be talking to some participants in the BAPC – The Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest. Like stated on the website of BAPC, it is a contest in which about 90 teams from leading universities in Luxemburg, Belgium and The Netherlands participate. The teams have to solve a series of algorithmic problems and…

BAPC2020 – Olympic spirit or serious business?

A look back at 2020 podcasts

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 29-12-2020
Category: Blog

Time to reflect on season 2 of the bol.com techlab podcast with Peter Paul van de Beek and Peter Brouwers. Thanks for all the support in 2020 and we love to see you back in 2021 as guest and listener, Happy New Year!

The Storybook story

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 18-12-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Testing Development Front-End frontend TDD Mindset frontend development App First Storybook

Introduction It happens a lot that listening to a podcast sparks new questions. So, after our episode on Front-End quality, we wanted to know more about Storybook. This coincided with some people reaching out to us to collaborate in the podcast. And look where we are now: creating a new podcast on this subject. We asked our selves the question: Could it be the holy grail for front end development? Topics discussed: What is Storybook? What problems does it solve? How does it support app development? What does the Add-on…

Service Mesh – a must have for a dynamic infrastructure

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 3-12-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: cloud kubernetes Infrastructure istio service mesh network

Introduction Weaving a Service Mesh for Multiple Clusters at bol.com – that was the title for the presentation our guests gave during the virtual KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2020 earlier this year. This triggered our curiosity. We have questions like what is this service mesh about? Why do we need it? How did we implement it? Guests Remco Overdijk; Tech Lead Provisioning Fleet / Expert System Engineer at bol.com. You might know him from the episode where we spoke about Kubernetes. James Brook; Cloud Solutions Architect at Google Hosts Peter Brouwers…

Service Mesh – a must have for a dynamic infrastructure

Real Time Sales – In 100ms from sales to dashboard

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 25-11-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Young Professional Culture data RSocket R2DBC Reactive programming Vue3 Kotlin Coroutines dashboard Rapid feedback Sales Real-Time

Introduction One of the purposes of this podcast is to share our unique bol.com culture with you. Traditions play an important part in culture. So, in this episode, we share a view on the evolution of a tradition. A tradition that underlines our focus on data. In this sales season, everybody in bol.com wants to know how we are doing, preferably Real-Time. With the latest version of the Real-Time Sales dashboard, our guests managed to get the information within 100ms from sales to the dashboard. If you are one of…

Real Time Sales – In 100ms from sales to dashboard

To become official F/OSS committer and eventually PMC member

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 19-11-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Community Open source F/OSS

Introduction In this episode we are sharing something that is unique at least in the Tech Community here at bol.com. To become official F/OSS committer and eventually PMC member. Without spoiling too much, I think this contribution will make a positive impact far beyond the bol.com Tech landscape and serve in an enormous number of companies. Helping engineers all over the planet. Hoping to inspire you as well to become official F/OSS committer and eventually PMC member. Our guest is the first bol.com employee to become official committer to the…