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    The Dutch Software Testing Championship

    Lucas Verberne, on 24-07-2017
    Category: Testing Tags: Testing Community Culture

    After the success of Software Testing World Cup last year, the winning team thought a Dutch version would also be interesting. Co-organized and hosted by Dutch Software Testing Association TestNet, the championship took place on May 1st.

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    The Dutch Software Testing Championship

    Services & Autonomy: the one can’t live without the other

    Frederieke Ubels, on 20-07-2017
    Category: Development Tags: Architecture Microservices Scalability devops Autonomy

    What started out as a means of technical scalability turned out to be the most important driver of team autonomy – and vice versa. This is our story of Backspin, Rabbits and the Man on the Moon.

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    Services & Autonomy: the one can’t live without the other

    Japanese cucumbers, boomerangs and utopias

    Roy Jacobs, on 23-06-2017
    Category: Culture, Development, Events Tags: Conferences Engineering Fun Culture

    bol.com has two speeds of operation: “very fast” and “extremely fast”. In this whirlwind it can sometimes be difficult for teams to share knowledge or just talk about things they find interesting. A handful of colleagues decided something needed to be done about this. What better way, they thought, than to just organize an entire conference by themselves?

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    Japanese cucumbers, boomerangs and utopias

    How CQRS got our web scale groove back

    Peter Paul van de Beek, on 21-06-2017
    Category: Blog, Architecture, Development Tags: CQRS Web scale Architecture patterns scale

    In this posts, we’ll show you how we use the CQRS “web scale” pattern to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back office software. This is needed as we rely heavily on our back office to offer our customers the best available service.

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    How CQRS got our web scale groove back

    From database killer to top performer!

    Nick Tinnemeier, on 12-06-2017
    Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Architecture Microservices database Grafana

    How do you get the IT management board to serve you coffee on a golden platter? You have to do something good of course, exceptional in fact. In order to tell you how we became top performer instead of database killer by creative use of a cache, we will have to take you back to December 2015, when it all started.

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    From database killer to top performer!

    DevOps Utrecht June meetup @ bol.com

    Maurice Zeijen, on 11-06-2017
    Category: Development, Events Tags: Meetup Event devops

    Join us on the 22nd of June at the DevOps Utrecht Meetup! For this meetup we have a talk from Maurice Zeijen about Resilience engineering in a microservice landscape. Brian Engel will close this evening by taking us into the world of the Dutch Police and how they’ve adopted DevOps.

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    DevOps Utrecht June meetup @ bol.com

    Bol.com @ Agile Amsterdam 2017

    Menno Vis, on 26-05-2017
    Category: Blog, Culture, Events Tags: Event Agile Conferences Development

    Are you going to Agile Amsterdam? Be sure to check out bol.com on the 21st of September! Menno Vis (IT Director) and Mary Gouseti (Software Engineer) will be presenting a hands-on case from 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM (track 1).

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    Bol.com @ Agile Amsterdam 2017

    From a crazy hackathon idea to an empty queue

    Rogier Lommers, on 17-05-2017
    Category: Blog, Architecture, Development Tags: Golang hackathon crazy client-server gamification distributed go

    How can you make sure images don’t slow down your page load performance? All it took us was some unconventional thinking: seti@bol.com.

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    From a crazy hackathon idea to an empty queue

    Hands-on test tooling workshops by bol.com & VX Company

    Joost van Wollingen, on 16-05-2017
    Category: Testing, Events Tags: Testing Meetup tooling

    New testing tools are introduced every week it seems, but how new and useful are they really? The search for the ultimate tool seems to be a never ending quest.

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    Hands-on test tooling workshops by bol.com & VX Company

    Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love it

    Menno Vis, on 15-05-2017
    Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Agile Scrum devops YBIYRIYLI

    This is the third post about our growth story. In the last blog post we elaborated on some necessary steps to take in an organizational change. We have explained that the steps bol.com has taken are very much in line with John Kotter’s steps. In this post we will have a closer look at the process in the spaces.

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    Our agile journey so far – Part 3: You build it, you run it, you love it
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