I, Asparuh Hristov, a Data Science Craft Lead at bol. com, believe that my working experience actually helps my other huge passion: Climbing. Sure, my work leaves a limited amount of time for actual climbing, but at the same time improved the quality of this time spent practicing my hobby tremendously.
Spaces Talk #4: From prototype to production. A real-life cloud story.
This year the bol. com Spaces Summit was held virtually and Anastasija and myself, Quiran Storey, presented a talk on a topic that is close to our daily work "From prototype to production. A real-life cloud story.
At this year's Spaces Summit, I presented a talk onStreamlit: a new web application framework in Python, which is perfect for making data science demos.
About the talk
As Data Scientists, we often need to quickly prototype ideas and showcase those...
Spaces Talk #5: Super Mario’s Dive Through The Gitlab Pipelines
Spaces Summit is our annual internal bol. com conference for IT, by IT, and friends: Two fun days of inspiration, knowledge sharing, bragging, and community. This year, our 4th edition, was our first digital version of the summit.
TL;DR: this article discusses in detail my presentation at Spaces Summit 2018. I talked about the need to stop smashing our keyboards and "blindly" focus on "high-speed", and start thinking about what we are doing, why and how we are doing it. By "zooming out and thinking" we take architecture and design into consideration.
Services & Autonomy: the one can’t live without the other
Services: automated business processes in small systems, connected through API’s. What started out as a means of technical scalability turned out to be the most important driver of team autonomy – and vice versa. This is our story of Backspin, Rabbits and the Man on the Moon.
Software Circus Interview - The move to the public cloud
IT infrastructure transitions can be hard. Obviously there are technical challenges to overcome. But what do you do when internal disagreement about the way forward leads to a halt in innovation? Recently I gave a talk about exactly this topic at the Software Circus conference.