Neuro Diversity - Two courageous guests sharing their personal stories about their discovery at a later age of autism and Tourette syndrome. Their search since then and how the neurodiversity community is helping them. A must-listen for everybody with and without a label!
Neurodiversity - Two brave guests sharing their personal storiesDBT – Data Build Tool. A development framework that combines modular SQL with software engineering best practices to make data transformation reliable, fast, and fun.
Data Build Tool - a tool to build dataWe invited Chantal Schinkels, author of the book The IT Girl, to our studio to talk about this book and the topic Women in Tech.
The IT Girl - Chantal SchinkelsOrder Sourcing Simulation is needed to enable capacity steering over our warehouses, network of sellers and logistical partners. Data Science is used to predict customer behavior and simulate capacity impact.
Order Sourcing Simulation with Data ScienceAs bol.com we are transitioning to a product-led organization. In previous Techlab podcast episodes, we discussed several aspects of this transition. One of the viewpoints we haven’t discussed is that of the software engineer.
Product-led the engineering perspectiveDoes your team have boring retrospectives? Do you learn from these meetings or do they drain energy? A good retrospective is a powerful tool for your team. In this podcast episode, you learn more about how to get your retrospective fun, fast and fruitful.
Bye bye boring retrospectivesWith 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 webshopJune 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 ManifestoTesting 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 WarehouseWith 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 as