Know what you deploy - a script using git log for listing all features that go live
Introduction
For me, even after having pushed the deploy button many times, deploying to production keeps being dreadful. Accidentally pushing an unwanted feature that sneaked in somehow is one of the many things I am afraid of. In this...
In this post, I will explain how bol. com is going to interpret what the user says using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.
Historically we have been doing that in multiple ways: by informing the customer on our website, in our app, in our email communication, using our chatbot Billie and in our call center.
Ever since I’ve started working for a WebAnalytics company in 2005 I’ve been working on problems related to making sense of web data. One of the most difficult elements in this type of analysis is making sense of the user...
Mapping object models with MapStruct - a case study
Introduction
I was once told that a good programmer is a lazy programmer. A good programmer avoids typing tedious code, where the code could basically write itself. Self-writing code – wouldn’t that be great? Unfortunately, we’re not quite there yet.
How to write MapStruct mappers for object hierarchies
Introduction
MapStruct is a framework that alleviates us, programmers, from the unexciting task of writing code to copy one object model to another, field by field. This blog elaborates on how to write MapStruct mappers for object hierarchies. If,...
Introduction
MapStruct is a framework that alleviates us, programmers, from the unexciting task of writing code to copy one object model to another, field by field. In this blog we show you how to map optional fields with MapStruct....
On Wednesday the 26th of June bol. com will host a meetup about Angular and Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Lars Meijdam en Marcel Visser (both Team Rockstars IT) will present on Progressive Web Apps.
On Wednesday the 30th of January we will focus on modern CI/CD practices. Maarten Dirkse, cloud advocate at bol. com, will update us on the migration of bol.