It’s been four years since bol started creating its own Design System. The main goal? To speed up innovation in a scalable way. Product Designer Rens and Product Manager Redmar share their insights into the development and construction of the ambitious project.
Shaping the future of bol: “Our Design System helps speed up innovation.”We’re talking to Elisa, bol’s very first UX Research Lead. With us, she shares stories about her journey, her future goals, ánd Continuous Interviewing – a successfully implemented program that now empowers several of bol’s product teams to regularly connect with their shoppers.
Leading the way in UX research: “This role was completely mine to shape”At Bol, we have observed a significant increase in engagement and conversion rates since implementing a personalized product feed, prominently featured on customers' homepages as "Top deals for you". Building on this success, we have extended the feed to also include "Top picks for you," and "New for you". These personalized feed systems curate the most relevant items for each customer's homepage using a combination of their recent and historical item interactions.
How we built near real-time “X for you” recommender systems at BolIf 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 WebClientIn this blogpost we want to share our experience, the take-aways and the sessions you should watch of the recent GraphQLConf’23 in the San Francisco Bay Area this Sept’23.
GraphQLConf’23In this blog post, we will share how we reduced the processing time of our streaming application running on dataflow named XCATS.
Boosting Dataflow Efficiency: How We Reduced Processing Time from 1 Day to 30 Minutes in DataflowIn a series of videos, we would like to showcase how Data Science is helping us at bol, our partners, and our customers. Hear the way the DS craft is utilized within the company in various parts of the company by the corresponding product teams/owner themselves! They know best the impact and the improvements of incorporating the discipline in their own products.
Data Science at bol.com - video seriesAs manager Tech Community Training & Onboarding, Michaela leads a full-fledged team of community builders at bol, organising dozens of successful events annually. With us, she shares the pitfalls, challenges, and triumphs she has encountered over the past five years.
The success of the bol tech communityIn today's fast-paced business landscape, accurate forecasting is crucial for informed decision-making. In this article, we'll take a high-level view of forecasting at bol, shedding light on the intricacies of our approach. Join us as we explain how we, as Team Forecasting, streamline the decision making process for various business teams. In particular, we will explain how we subdivided our team based on the aggregation level of the forecasts that we are working on.
Navigating the Future: An Overview of Forecasting at bolJoin us on a twisted journey through bol’s ambitious data migration from a legacy monolith to new “micro” databases. Discover the challenges, solutions, and strategies that shaped our approach—from testing and transforming data to managing long-running scripts and navigating unexpected hurdles. Whether you’re looking for practical insights or just curious about the journey, this story uncovers the lessons we learned on the path to go-live.
Splitting the data of the monolith – Because who needs to sleep anyway…
