As part of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google provides Pub/Sub as its queuing mechanism. After creating a Pub/Sub topic in GCP, you can create publishers to send messages to a topic and subscribers to receive messages from a topic. In order to send or receive...
Integration testing Pub/Sub interactions in your applicationWith only a few weeks to go to our peak season, we wanted to ensure that the chat app on our webshop was performing up to par. An important part of our customers' questions is answered via this chat app. You can feel the importance of it to be able to handle a load of questions during our peak season.
Performance testing the chat appHow we tame Google Cloud resources with R2D2. We had some episodes on the cloud already. Now it’s time to discuss how bol.
How we tame Google Cloud resources with R2D2Yes, it’s confirmed! Bol. com is going to the Cloud! The contract with Google has been recently signed, which gives us about 1 year to migrate from Platfora (our BI visualization tool), before it stops having support. 1 year thus to migrate many datasets and dashboards to the Cloud.
Introducing Stanley: bol.com highway to (heaven) BigQueryThe state of Reactive Streams - watch the presentation and listen to the podcast. International Keynote speaker Oleh Dokuka gave a presentation on the state of Reactive Streams at bol. com.
The state of Reactive StreamsOur Small Web Apps or SWAPs, in short, are something like the SOA for Front-End. We aim for separate deployable parts of the Front-End we have available for our Plaza partners, suppliers and internal users. In the Front-End we also encountered that we had teams waiting for each other before they could bring functionality to Pro.
Small Web AppsIn this episode of the podcast, we talk about API development for the retail platform. A very important subject for a retail platform like bol. com.
API development for the retail platformWe think "the Cloud" is to broad a subject to handle in one episode of the podcast. That is why we break down our cloud journey in small pieces and go over them in separate episodes. This time we dive into "Redesign for the cloud – horizontal scaling".
Redesign for the cloud – horizontal scalingIt’s common sense of course to keep your codebase clean all the time, but this isn’t always the case. It simply happens that a codebase grows in ways that were not foreseen on forehand resulting in an unclear architecture...
Refactoring your codeThe big question in this episode is “How can we create 10 million personalized webshops? Tailormade for every one of our customers so it suites their needs best?” In short, the answering is Measuring 2. 0. This enables us to measure more accurately how customers are behaving in our webshop.
Measuring 2.0 - Streaming measurements