Patrick van Dissel – 3 articles

Spaces Talk #5: Super Mario’s Dive Through The Gitlab Pipelines

Patrick van Dissel, on 5-10-2020
Category: Cloud, Development, Testing Tags: Gitlab Spaces Summit CI/CD

Spaces Summit is our annual internal bol.com conference for IT, by IT, and friends: Two fun days of inspiration, knowledge sharing, bragging, and community. This year, our 4th edition, was our first digital version of the summit. All our summits are recorded and published on YouTube, free to watch for everyone. Check https://spacessummit.bol.com for all info on all our summits and their recordings. As one of the organizers of Spaces Summit 2019 and 2018, as well as mentor of the 2020 organizers, I’m proud that we were able to very…

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Developers in Control

Patrick van Dissel, on 1-12-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Infrastructure, Development, Testing Tags: Testing Development Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery continuous improvement Jenkins Gitlab Spinnaker Build Automation

Bol.com has a build automation tools team since 2012, going from installation manuals, to hundreds of manually maintained Jenkins jobs, to 5000+ generated Jenkins jobs, to fully autonomous teams. What did we do, what are we doing, where are we going, and how are we getting there.

In this demo rich talk, We’ll show you the ins- and outs, our challenges, and our approaches to keeping our growing development community happy and productive.

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Software Engineering Meetup – Security

Patrick van Dissel, on 26-09-2017
Category: Security, Events Tags: Meetup Event Software Security Hackers

On Thursday the 12th of October, the meetup of Software Engineering about security will be hosted by bol.com together with Zerocopter and Flock.

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