TL;DR: this article discusses in detail my presentation at Spaces Summit 2018. I talked about the need to stop smashing our keyboards and "blindly" focus on "high-speed", and start thinking about what we are doing, why and how we are doing it. By "zooming out and thinking" we take architecture and design into consideration.
Stop Smashing your Keyboard! Zoom out! Think!In many systems at bol. com the response speed of our systems is very important. This blog is about the data structures and algorithms we used to make a specific analysis step a lot faster: Finding the longest matching string prefix.
Finding the longest matching string prefix ... fastThe biggest e-commerce company in the Netherlands and Belgium, bol. com, set out on a 4 year journey to rethink and rebuild their entire ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline, that has been cooking up the data used by its search...
Using Elasticsearch as the Primary Data StoreBol. com & Xebia are happy to present to you another meetup on software quality. This time we will have Trish Khoo, keynote speaker at Agile Testing Days 2018, who will present her holistic approach to software quality.
Transparency: A holistic approach to software qualityLast June, Spaces Summit was organized by and for bol. com employees. At Techlab, we want to celebrate this event by highlighting two presentations every month.
Part 3: Talks Spaces Summit v2.0At bol. com, we deal with a lot of complex, technical challenges. Luckily, we also attract a lot of people who like a good challenge.
Life of an IT Intern at bol.comLast June, Spaces Summit was organized by and for bol. com employees. At Techlab, we want to celebrate this event by highlighting two presentations every month.
Part 2: Talks Spaces Summit v2.0Last year the Measuring 2. 0 team at bol. com has started measuring user behavior on the bol.
How (not) to sink a data stream to files? Journeys from Kafka to Parquet.Early October 2017 saw the release of a new tool for test automation, Cypress 1. 0. It's not just another tool, it's a tool with specific goals in mind.
Test automation with a great new tool: CypressLast June, Spaces Summit was organized by and for bol. com employees. At Techlab, we want to celebrate this event by highlighting two presentations every month.
Part 1: Talks Spaces Summit v2.0