Spaces 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 we had our first digital version of the summit.
Spaces Talk #1: They took our jobs!Or: Everybody is a remote UX Researcher In our previous post we talked about how ‘Everybody is a UX Researcher’ and we believe that involving all stakeholders and letting them talk to our users is vital for a good product development. Then corona happened, but we wouldn’t...
UX Research during COVID-19During the spaces summit this year, I did a talk on “Chaos Engineering: Why we should embrace chaos”. About me I've been working as a software developer since 2008 and have been at bol. com since 2016.
Video: My Chaos Engineering presentationWe can imagine that at a regular company your colleagues might become very nervous when you worsen the frontend performance by more than a second on the onload, just before the peak season. In this story we'd like to...
Our ride to peak season frontend performanceAs part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google provides Pub/Sub as its queuing mechanism. After creating a Pub/Sub topic in GCP, you can create publishers to send messages to a topic and subscribers to receive messages from a topic. In order to send or receive...
Integration testing Pub/Sub interactions in your applicationYou are a UX researcher, and you are a UX researcher… Everybody is a UX researcher! That’s kind of our approach to user centered design at bol. com. Does it make the whole process more customer minded? Definitely.
Everybody is a UX ResearcherYes, it’s confirmed! Bol. com is going to the Cloud! The contract with Google has been recently signed, which gives us about 1 year to migrate from Platfora (our BI visualization tool), before it stops having support. 1 year thus to migrate many datasets and dashboards to the Cloud.
Introducing Stanley: bol.com highway to (heaven) BigQueryWill you graduate in 2019 or 2020 and would you like to get to know Bol. com as an IT employer? Join the bol. com Tech Talent Night on the 28th of November 2019.
Join the bol.com Young Professional Tech Talent NightThrough the year we host and organize different types of meetups. Check https://www. meetup.
Meetups @ bol.comAlways wanted to know how bol. com teams innovate faster with Google Cloud? Visit our booth during the Google Cloud Summit in the Amsterdam RAI on October 10. https://inthecloud.
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