Web applications usually start small and loveable, but gradually become larger and larger as more people work on them and front-end technologies move on. If you’re not careful they can potentially end up as the one thing no-one wants...
SWAPs: From monolith to small web applicationsYes, we made it again! Spaces summit 2018 - the bol. com IT conference by engineers, for engineers - happened again last 7th of June, on a hot summer day in our home town Utrecht. The event brought together more than 340 participants from bol.
Spaces Summit v2.0 - “That t-shirt is not black, it is very dark blue”Testing has been in an accelerated evolution over the last decade. Due to the fact that different practices — like Continuous Integration and Delivery, DevOps, and Agile — have shifted and refined at a rapid pace. In this blog, we would like to give a short insight on testing at bol.
Software Testing at bol.comAt bol. com, IT grows together with the rest of the organization. We are constantly searching for brilliant new colleagues.
In search for perfect coding interview assignmentWell, pretty cool, I’d say. And even cooler if you are a young professional, fresh out of university and just started in your first job. But our pay-off is “Je kan het met bol.
Organizing your own tech conference: how cool is that?!In the heart of the Agile method are autonomous teams that take responsibility and make their own decisions. Transitioning to self-organizing teams may seem like a risk, a move intuitively perilous to quality. But Rini van Solingen explains how bol.
Quality through autonomous teamsBoyd (left of Billy) was an intern at bol. com from September 2017 until January 2018. This blog is a conversation between him and his intern mentor, Maurice Zeijen (Software Architect @ bol.
IT internship at bol.comIn this post, I will explain how bol. com is going to interpret what the user says using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Historically we have been doing that in multiple ways: by informing the customer on our website, in our app, in our email communication, using our chatbot Billie and in our call center.
Making Machines Understand YouAccording 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. So why...
Your leaky online payment processData Science and Machine Learning are becoming more integrated into current businesses. Especially in e-commerce there is huge potential for predictive modeling. It is therefore no surprise that bol.
Getting organized: cleaning up bol.com with Data Science