Bol. com is growing with approximately 30% per year, not just in terms of revenues but also operationally. With these increasing numbers it’s an on-going challenge to fulfil all customer orders in time.
The life of a WMS consultant at bol.comBol. com & Xebia are happy to present to you another meetup on software quality. This time we will have Trish Khoo, keynote speaker at Agile Testing Days 2018, who will present her holistic approach to software quality.
Transparency: A holistic approach to software qualitySign up Bol. com is not only the largest online retailplatform in the Netherlands and Belgium. But we are also an innovative IT campus where it never feels like business as usual, where you have the right to challenge everything.
Unboxing bol.com - IT Young Professional EventI believe that FTP is due for a makeover because it's so ancient that few companies want to host it, yet so many customers still want to use it. That's why fellow techies and I embarked on two open-source...
Turning rusty tech into Rust ~ When you need to FTP but don’t want toThe biggest e-commerce company in the Netherlands and Belgium, bol. com, set out on a 4 year journey to rethink and rebuild their entire ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipeline, that has been cooking up the data used by its search...
Using Elasticsearch as the Primary Data StoreOr: Everybody is a remote UX Researcher In our previous post we talked about how ‘Everybody is a UX Researcher’ and we believe that involving all stakeholders and letting them talk to our users is vital for a good product development. Then corona happened, but we wouldn’t...
UX Research during COVID-19Over 1200 people work at bol. com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces.
Video: How does IT work?“My past year as a software engineer at bol. com has mostly been dedicated to breaking down one of the big monoliths within our software landscape into smaller services. To be more specific: I’ve been working in a team to extract the processes related to customer returns into a separate microservice.
Video: Insights- Building a Boomerang that doesn’t come back (to haunt you) at Spaces SummitWe hosted the Techlab meetup on the 15th of March Wow! One hundred testers and developers in attendance. What a great turn out for our very first bol. com Techlab meetup, which we co-organized with Xebia's Tester Masters Series.
Video: James Bach on the future of the testing roleDuring the spaces summit this year, I did a talk on “Chaos Engineering: Why we should embrace chaos”. About me I've been working as a software developer since 2008 and have been at bol. com since 2016.
Video: My Chaos Engineering presentation