Growing 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 webshopTechnology
168Tech 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 asProduct Led - Easier when done together
Tech Lead and Architect paving the path together for the journey to our Product-Led organization.
Product Led - Easier when done togetherBol.com's big Data Journey
As techlead on bol.com's technical platform my responsibilities include how we work with BigQuery. For us it's not just a way to park a lot of data.
Bol.com's big Data JourneyHow to prevent common performance defects with the jPinpoint PMD rules
Prevention is better than cure - a fundamental principle of health care that also applies to modern software development. The later a bug surfaces, the more effort it takes to repair. From our own experience we know that this especially applies to performance bugs.
How to prevent common performance defects with the jPinpoint PMD rulesThe hyped, happening and happened application frameworks and Java runtime @ bol.com (Part 5)
We asked 25 developers, five tech leads and someone “who does unspeakable things with technology” - more commonly known as our principle tech lead which technologies (tools, libraries, language or frameworks) they believe are hyped, happening or happened: hyped - which...
The hyped, happening and happened application frameworks and Java runtime @ bol.com (Part 5)The hyped, happening and happened tech @ bol.com (Part 1)
Every once in a while we reflect on the technologies we use in our everyday working lives. Which technologies did we pick up recently that made us more productive and our work more fun? Are there any new technologies...
The hyped, happening and happened tech @ bol.com (Part 1)