Organizing your own tech conference: how cool is that?!
Well, pretty cool, I’d say. And even cooler if you are a young professional, fresh out of university and just started in your first job. But our pay-off is “Je kan het met bol.
In the heart of the Agile method are autonomous teams that take responsibility and make their own decisions. Transitioning to self-organizing teams may seem like a risk, a move intuitively perilous to quality. But Rini van Solingen explains how bol.
Boyd (left of Billy) was an intern at bol. com from September 2017 until January 2018. This blog is a conversation between him and his intern mentor, Maurice Zeijen (Software Architect @ bol.
According to figures from Ingenico, around 15% of site visitors in the Netherlands that begin the payment process do not complete their transaction. This can have many causes which will be examined later in this article. So why...
A new idea: to improve teams we don’t need to improve teams…
One of the things that keeps us busy at bol. com is the continuous quest to figure out what else we could do to make our teams better. Even better I should write, since the vast majority of our teams are doing great already and I am very proud of them! However we also believe at bol.
Over 1200 people work at bol. com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces.
Video: Insights- Building a Boomerang that doesn’t come back (to haunt you) at Spaces Summit
“My past year as a software engineer at bol. com has mostly been dedicated to breaking down one of the big monoliths within our software landscape into smaller services. To be more specific: I’ve been working in a team to extract the processes related to customer returns into a separate microservice.
Thursday, November 16, 2017, bol. com hosted the Continuous Delivery Amsterdam meetup
There were two talks planned:
DocOps as part of DevOps, about how to integrate documentation in the developers workflow
Developers in Control, about the past, the now, and the future of...
Movie: Insights- the definitive talk at Spaces Summit
Creating great software just doesn’t cut it anymore. Nowadays you as the developer are also responsible for running it. When things go wrong, you’re the one pouring through all the data to find out what happened.
We won the award for Best Tutorial at the EuroSTAR 2017 conference
This year Joost and Ivo were invited to give their tutorial 'Docker for Testers' at the EuroSTAR Conference. Docker has been instrumental in speeding up the development process at bol. com.