Covid-19 rules the world, so it determines the subjects for our podcast. Just like others, we moved from studio recording to home recording. Basically working from home (WFH).
Covid-19 Trilogy-part I - How Office Automation set the prerequisites for WFHLike the Romans already said: Mens sana in corpore sano. A healthy mind in a healthy body. One sentence in an article from one of our colleagues triggered us: "Prepare for the unknown and unknowable".
Crossfit - fit for life and fit for purposeThis episode has 2 subjects: PostgreSQL migration and performance. The two guests of our show will present during the PostgreSQL User group meetup at bol. com which started shortly after this recording.
PostgreSQL - Migration and PerformanceThe two guests of our show work in our experimentation team. They set a target at the beginning of 2019: Our goal is to help hundreds of people at bol. com to run experiments (more effectively).
Experimentation - it starts with courage and curiosityIt was briefly mentioned in our episode on Advent of Code. We also started an internal Coding Championship. Spaces Championship.
The Spaces Championship - our code competitionA group of Kotlin enthusiast joined KotlinConf back in December last year in Copenhagen. We invited this group to share their learnings for this conference. Two of the participants are sharing their takeaways from KotlinConf with you.
10 takeaways from KotlinConfThe subject of this podcast episode is totally in line with the holiday season. Time for the advent calendars in many different formats. One of these formats is the Advent of Code 2019! The bol.
Advent of Code 2019One of the aspects that keep popping up in software development: Technical Debt. Some created on purpose, for example, to get features into production fast. Some just came into existence.
Dealing with Technical Debt - an experimentThe angle for this episode of our podcast is hackathons. At the time of the recording, there was one going on in our headquarters in Utrecht. What is a hackathon? Why do we organise them? And we talk about some of the initiatives at the current hackathon.
HackathonIn this episode, we talk about growing talent. We dive into how we approach this as bol. com in our Young Professional Program.
Young Professional Program