On June 13th, we organize the third edition of Spaces Summit: an internal tech conference for and by bol. com IT. From the start of the idea three years ago at a “borrel” (Friday afternoon drinks), Spaces Summit has become the biggest event inside bol.
Spaces Summit - Launching for the 3rd editionOn Wednesday the 26th of June bol. com will host a meetup about Angular and Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Lars Meijdam en Marcel Visser (both Team Rockstars IT) will present on Progressive Web Apps.
Meetup: Angular and Progressive Web AppsIn this episode we dive into the world were e-commerce becomes physical. We talk about the bol. com Fulfilment Center (BFC).
Performance boost the pick algorithm in the warehouseOn Wednesday the 15th of May bol. com will host a meetup about migrating from on-prem to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After dinner is served, René Feiner, director of engineering at MessageBird will kick off the evening and talk about how and why they moved from their datacenter to GCP.
Meetup: René Feiner (MessageBird) & Maarten Dirkse (bol.com) - Migrating to the cloudIn this episode we talk about GO. Go is not a language that is used the most at bol. com.
From zero to PRO: Using GO @ bol.comKotlin was first used by our teams a couple of years ago. It had an interesting start that shows how we adopt technology in general. In different feature teams a group of software engineers explored their own use cases for Kotlin.
Our Kotlin adoption journey"Welcome to the bol. com Tech Podcast. In this podcast we share our experience with you to learn and entertain.
Introduction to our upcoming bol.com Techlab podcast episodesTL;DR We share our experience on how we built a conversational bot with Finite State Machines. It turned out to have its own shortcomings so we built a (Domain-Specific Language) DSL to design our flows and called it “Sushi”. Sushi is a more flexible and straight-forward tool to build complicated flows.
Sushi: A DSL for Conversational Flow Design“It didn’t look like a big issue at that moment”. Everybody in the room listened to what the Engineer on Duty (EoD) had to tell about the first moments what, later on, turned out to be a partly outage of the webshop in peak season. It’s Monday morning 10.
How we deal with the unexpectedWith a growing microservice landscape, the importance of aggregation layers is also increasing. For some of these aggregation services we are trying Facebook’s GraphQL, with two of them now running on our production environment. We've found that one of the drawbacks in using GraphQL is maintenance on both domain models and GraphQL queries.
A developer friendly GraphQL client