In this blog, we show you how to automatically scale your application resources according to either the CPU consumption or to the incoming load of your application. Background As humans, we are capable of adapting to variable inputs and situations. Some of us are slower, whereas others easily adapt to change.
HPA: how it can save you headaches and moneyTowards the end of 2020, Melissa Perotti and I held a talk on Product Development for Data Science Products at GoDataFest - the (this time virtual) festival of Data Technology. We elaborate on how we follow a 7-phase process to...
Product Development for Data Science - From Idea to Production in 7 PhasesIntroduction At bol. com we have two main ways of running our applications. We can deploy them in a Datacenter (DC) managed by us or we can run them on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Moving to the cloud? Don't let your application become a downer!Introduction MapStruct is a framework that alleviates us, programmers, from the unexciting task of writing code to copy one object model to another, field by field. In this blog we show you how to map optional fields with MapStruct....
How to map optional fields with MapStructIntroduction MapStruct is a framework that alleviates us, programmers, from the unexciting task of writing code to copy one object model to another, field by field. This blog elaborates on how to write MapStruct mappers for object hierarchies. If,...
How to write MapStruct mappers for object hierarchiesIntroduction I was once told that a good programmer is a lazy programmer. A good programmer avoids typing tedious code, where the code could basically write itself. Self-writing code – wouldn’t that be great? Unfortunately, we’re not quite there yet.
Mapping object models with MapStruct - a case studyTime to reflect on season 2 of the bol. com techlab podcast with Peter Paul van de Beek and Peter Brouwers. Thanks for all the support in 2020 and we love to see you back in 2021 as guest and listener, Happy New Year! .
A look back at 2020 podcastsAt this year's Spaces Summit, I presented a talk onStreamlit: a new web application framework in Python, which is perfect for making data science demos. About the talk As Data Scientists, we often need to quickly prototype ideas and showcase those...
Spaces Talk #6: Making Demos Great AgainSpaces 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.
Spaces Talk #5: Super Mario’s Dive Through The Gitlab PipelinesThis year at Spaces Summit, the bol. com annual internal IT conference, I presented a talk about the work our team, Team SmartAds, has been doing in creating a new marketing attribution truth for our platform. About the talk How do we verify that we are using our marketing budget effectively?As bol.
Creating a paradigm shift for bol.com marketing attribution