By Denise Visser on 5-03-2018
Category: Blog, Architecture Tags: Payment optimization process
According to figures from Ingenico, around 15% of site visitors in the Netherlands that begin the payment process do not complete their transaction. This can have many causes which will be examined later in this article.
Read moreBy Mattijs Meiboom on 15-12-2017
Category: Blog, Architecture, Culture, Development Tags: Testing Architecture Microservices Concepts Change Risks
“My past year as a software engineer at bol.com has mostly been dedicated to breaking down one of the big monoliths within our software landscape into smaller services. To be more specific: I’ve been working in a team to extract the processes related to customer returns into a separate microservice.”
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By Maarten Dirkse on 13-09-2017
Category: Architecture, Culture, Development Tags: Event Architecture Software Cloudbusting cloud
IT infrastructure transitions can be hard. Obviously there are technical challenges to overcome. But what do you do when internal disagreement about the way forward leads to a halt in innovation?
Read moreBy Maurice Zeijen on 1-09-2017
Category: Blog, Architecture, Development Tags: Event Microservices Hystrix Video
During the GoTo Amsterdam conference this year, I did a talk on “Resilience Engineering in a Microservice Landscape”.
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By PeterPaulvandeBeek 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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By 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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By ir. drs. Niels Basjes on 22-03-2017
Category: Architecture, Development Tags: Scalability BigData
At bol.com we service millions of products to millions of customers, resulting in billions of pages each year. We want to create the most effective service to our visitors we possibly can. So we spent a lot of time preparing the content, monitoring the systems and analyzing how we can support our customers better in finding what they really want.
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