The IT Girl - Chantal Schinkels
We invited Chantal Schinkels, author of the book The IT Girl, to our studio to talk about this book and the topic Women in Tech.
The IT Girl - Chantal SchinkelsTechnology
133Order Sourcing Simulation with Data Science
Order Sourcing Simulation is needed to enable capacity steering over our warehouses, network of sellers and logistical partners. Data Science is used to predict customer behavior and simulate capacity impact.
Order Sourcing Simulation with Data ScienceGoogle Glass at bol.com: A different way of looking at Technology
Bringing our warehouse and logistics operations to the Utrecht bol.com campus by Google Glass.
Google Glass at bol.com: A different way of looking at Technology
Bye bye boring retrospectives
Does your team have boring retrospectives? Do you learn from these meetings or do they drain energy? A good retrospective is a powerful tool for your team. In this podcast episode, you learn more about how to get your retrospective fun, fast and fruitful.
Bye bye boring retrospectivesTech vision at bol.com
At bol.com we like our teams to be autonomous when it comes to implementing solutions to help our customers. However if people are completely free to do whatever they want to reach a team goal we might end up in the bottom right corner of the picture due to lack of direction. We like to be in the upper right corner where there’s both freedom and alignment. The other parts of the diagram are of course less desirable for our software engineers and data scientists.
Tech vision at bol.comGrowing quality in our webshop
With 2 of our engineers, we look into how we keep enhancing the quality of our webshop using canary testing and analysis, contract testing and end-to-end testing in isolation.
Growing quality in our webshopTech Culture Month and the Tech Culture Manifesto
June 2022 - We celebrated Tech Culture Month at bol.com. Together with the initiators and organizers, we discuss the ins- and outs of this series of events. During this month, the Tech Culture Manifesto was introduced. We explore what this manifesto is about, how it got on paper and what we aim for with it.
Tech Culture Month and the Tech Culture ManifestoAvoiding memory leaks with Spring Boot WebClient
If you’re performing web requests with Spring Boot’s WebClient you perhaps, just like us, read that defining the URL of your request should be done using a URI builder
Avoiding memory leaks with Spring Boot WebClientDemo-time; Google Glass capabilities in a pop-up Warehouse
Testing the boundaries of the technology that we have today and having the opportunity to put a Google Glass on and experience operating in a pop-up Warehouse. Those were the results of a joint experiment by Google and bol.com.
Demo-time; Google Glass capabilities in a pop-up WarehouseGolang as simple as
With software engineers of both Xebia and bol.com, we discuss the introduction of a language like Go in an organisation. We check its readability and simplicity and find ways to onboard engineers in the Go experience.
Golang as simple as