Our agile journey so far - Part 1: bol.com to the moon!
From a small online book store to an e-commerce platform with 7 million customers. That’s the short version of the bol. com story so far.
Our agile journey so far - Part 1: bol.com to the moon!Blog Overview
158Bol.com welcomes Ladies that UX-Utrecht
Bol. com proudly presents our first Women in Tech meetup! We think it is possible connect women working or interested in trends and innovation in tech. Also, we aim to make waves in the technology sector by helping women discuss and take action on issues such as bridging the gender gap.
Bol.com welcomes Ladies that UX-UtrechtGOTO Amsterdam 2017
Resilience engineering in a microservice landscape Attend my talk at GOTO to learn how we, the largest online retail platform in the Netherlands and Belgium, achieve fault tolerance. The bol. com website depends on dozens of services that might fail at any time.
GOTO Amsterdam 2017How structure helps me to maintain software
Software maintenance can be hell. I'm sure that many developers have opened up an existing codebase, only to be greeted with a plethora of packages. You can usually see in excruciating detail the kinds of classes the software has.
How structure helps me to maintain softwareMy baby was leaky and now it’s not
When you build a service at bol. com your responsibility doesn’t end once the build is green. You’re actually supposed to run it (and keep it running) in production, too.
My baby was leaky and now it’s notLife as an expat at bol.com
While working abroad as an expat might sound like an exciting opportunity with noteworthy advantages, "adaptation" constitutes the dominant factor of the entire challenge. Which language will you use for communication? What about cultural differences? To what extent will...
Life as an expat at bol.comThe future of the testing role
For years now, the role of the tester has been the topic of discussion and debate. The way we develop software in the age of Scrum, Agile and DevOps appears to have shifted the tasks and responsibilities associated with software testing for some us. Competitive markets demand a shorter time to market, without impacting quality.
The future of the testing roleCodemotion 2017
Applying “web scale” patterns in the bol. com back office Peter Paul van de Beek (IT Architect at bol. com) will show you in this session how we use “web scale” patterns to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back-office software.
Codemotion 2017