IT infrastructure transitions can be hard. Obviously there are technical challenges to overcome. But what do you do when internal disagreement about the way forward leads to a halt in innovation? Recently I gave a talk about exactly this topic at the Software Circus conference.
Software Circus Interview - The move to the public cloudBack in the day, my team couldn't deploy a new software version to production immediately. We had to wait because testing hadn't finished. Or because a big feature wasn't production-ready.
Feature Toggle, one step closer to continuous integration and continuous deliveryDuring the GoTo Amsterdam conference this year, I did a talk on "Resilience Engineering in a Microservice Landscape". About the talk In this talk I show how we at bol. com achieve fault tolerance across our application landscape.
Video: My resilience GoTo presentationThis is the fourth post about our growth story. In the previous blog post we explained how bol. com realized an organizational change with YBIYRIYLI (You build it, you run it, you love it).
Our agile journey so far – Part 4: Servant leadersOn Thursday the 7th of September Meetup of Software Engineering will be hosted by bol. com together with Flock. Schedule: 18:00 - Doors open.
Software Engineering Meetup - MicroservicesLast year, a Dutch team won the Software Testing World Cup. The newly crowned Software Testing World Cup Champions were so energized by the experience they thought, “why not have a Dutch version as well?” Co-organized and hosted by...
The Dutch Software Testing ChampionshipServices: automated business processes in small systems, connected through API’s. What started out as a means of technical scalability turned out to be the most important driver of team autonomy – and vice versa. This is our story of Backspin, Rabbits and the Man on the Moon.
Services & Autonomy: the one can’t live without the otherWhen Google's Robert Kubis walked on to the stage I never expected his keynote would touch on the topic of Japanese cucumber farms. Google's machine learning toolkit powers the cucumber sorter, apparently. That must've been a fun dataset to train.
Japanese cucumbers, boomerangs and utopiasIn this posts, we’ll show you how we use the CQRS “web scale” pattern to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back office software. This is needed as we rely heavily on our back office to offer our customers the...
How CQRS got our web scale groove backHow do you get the IT management board to serve you coffee on a golden platter? You have to do something good of course, exceptional in fact. In order to tell you how we became top performer instead of database killer by creative use of a cache, we will have to take you back to December 2015, when it all started. December.
From database killer to top performer!