PeterPaulvandeBeek – 97 articles

Proof data consistency in a micro service landscape

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 6-11-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Architecture Microservices data Quality Bigquery Data Consistency

Introduction Even if it doesn’t appeal to you, you might want to think about it when you work in a larger microservice landscape or have a serious big data platform…Proof data consistency in a microservice landscape. When we google this subject I already get 1.2 MLN results so there’s something going on here. To ensure data consistency several practices are available: Saga Pattern Reconciliation Event Log Orchestration vs. Choreography Single-Write With Events Change-First Event-First Consistency by Design Accepting Inconsistency But in this episode, we won’t go over these practices. We…

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Front End Quality in an interactive-heavy application

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 28-10-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Testing Agile UX Development Front-End Quality Test automation Playbook

Introduction In this episode, we show a little of our front-end love. And our love for testing and enjoying the quality of a good front-end. It was time for that because the last time we talked about front end related stuff was quit some episodes ago. We are going to talk about Front End Quality in an interactive-heavy application. First, we discuss two statements/dilemmas: Testing is always balancing. Time vs. Quality: How much time to spent on getting all the cases (interactions) and edge cases clear vs. the level of…

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Behind the Mask – Young Professionals contributing to the online platform for healthcare

Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 19-10-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Community Innovation skills support

Today we take a look behind the mask. The moment we recorded this podcast episode the 2nd wave of Corona is hitting The Netherlands. In the first wave, the Corona crisis was causing a lot of pressure and stress on our healthcare system and nurses & caretakers specifically.  With a couple of IT Young Professionals, we are helping a great project called “Behind The Mask”. It is a joint effort of UMC Utrecht, TU Delft and Erasmus MC. The project aims to help nurses maintain mental and physical health by providing an online platform where…

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Let’s get Ethical

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 12-10-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Culture Tech Community Ethics Books

“This is how we do IT”, is the slogan of our Techlab site and podcast. Every now and then we reach out to external guests to learn from them and exchange ideas. We are really happy to have this external guest in our show to talk about “Let’s get ethical”. This multi-talent released her book ‘De bubbel’ mid 2019 after 15 years at Google, Spotify and Booking.com. She writes columns for the Dutch newspaper FD. One of those was the reason for me to reach out and invite her to…

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Sociotechnical Architecture to maximize impact

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 24-09-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Innovation teams software engineering customer centric Sociotechnical Architecture Software Architect velocity

In this episode, we touch a field that we don’t explore that much, Architecture. To be more precise: Sociotechnical Architecture to maximize impact. In a way, it’s strange since Peter Paul has worked as an architect for quite a while. On the website of our guest, esilva.net,  it’s called “co-design organizational and technical systems to maximize impact”.  We think there is so much to explore in these words Sociotechnical Architecture so we asked Eduardo to join this show. <picture source> We discuss what it is and also, why it is…

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Moving to multilingual, first step Wallonia

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 16-09-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: scale multilingual French Wallonia Ownership Consistency App First

Bonjour ! Félicitations messieurs, il y a seulement deux semaines, que le bol.com application multilingue est disponible dans les app-stores. That’s how we started this episode. Congratulate our guests with the launch of the multilingual bol.com app. It was launched in the French-speaking part of Belgium, Wallonia. With this launch, over 5 million French-speaking Belgians were able to shop in their native language. In this episode, we dive into this move to multilingual that started two years ago. After the ‘why’ and ‘when’ we go into the ‘how’. From both…

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Site Reliability Engineering; that’s music to my ears!

Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 10-09-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Agile Innovation devops SRE Software Development Operations Site Reliability Engineering SLI SLO SLA

Site Reliability Engineering, or SRE, is seen by a lot of people as the next logical step in developing DevOps capabilities. SRE takes concepts from software engineering and puts them to use in an operations context. Over the last 3 years, we have been experimenting with SRE approaches and gradually integrating them into our DevOps way of working. In this episode, we share the experience we gained on our journey. Guests Bart Enkelaar; Software Engineer and SRE advocate in bol.com and external speaker and friend of the show (SRE during…

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Shifting gears to maximize your personal productivity

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 3-09-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: skills teams Personal Productivity OKR North Star

Welcome back after the summer holidays! Hope you were able to enjoy an awesome break. We took some time to prepare some great podcast episodes for you. Holidays, always a nice moment to reflect on things. One of the things might be your personal development and productivity. Saying yes to too many things, do these things add to my personal development, how do you keep track on all these commitments, how do you ensure you don’t drown and eventually don’t be productive at all. Sounds familiar to you these questions?…

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Simulation, building the digital twin of our warehouse on experiments

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 29-07-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: DataScience Innovation BFC Warehouse Experiment Simulation Digital Twin

In this episode, we take another look, a fresh perspective on Data Science for Logistics. In earlier episodes, we talked about related topics like Forecasting and crafting a Picking Algorithm using Data Science. With the guests of this episode, we dive into two specific challenges in the warehousing domain, the cost-based selection is the first one and the second is put-away with simulation as the red line. During the recording, we found out that our guests have a big dream: realizing the Digital Twin of the bol.com fulfilment centre. But…

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Looking back at 55 episodes

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 16-07-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Community Culture Retro Tech Community

We changed roles for this unique episode. And why is that? We are going to look back on the first 55 episodes. So, Peter Paul and Peter will be the guests of this show and Niels Kuiper and Bruno Lauwers will be your host. Our motto is ‘sharing is caring’. So, practise what you preach and share the podcast journey as well. That was what we had in mind. We share how it all started over a year ago. We dive into the learnings and memorable moments. We were asked…

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