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, 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 attributionThis year the bol. com Spaces Summit was held virtually and Anastasija and myself, Quiran Storey, presented a talk on a topic that is close to our daily work "From prototype to production. A real-life cloud story.
Spaces Talk #4: From prototype to production. A real-life cloud story.I, Asparuh Hristov, a Data Science Craft Lead at bol. com, believe that my working experience actually helps my other huge passion: Climbing. Sure, my work leaves a limited amount of time for actual climbing, but at the same time improved the quality of this time spent practicing my hobby tremendously.
Spaces Talk #3: How to work the climbing ladder?I’ve had the great pleasure of giving a talk at the Spaces Summit 2020, the internal bol. com Tech conference. About the talk Maximizing the impact of our products is more than just thinking about their technical architecture.
Spaces Talk #2: Introduction to Sociotechnical ArchitectureSpaces 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...
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