During the GoTo Amsterdam conference this year, I did a talk on "Resilience Engineering in a Microservice Landscape". About the talk In this talk I show how we at bol. com achieve fault tolerance across our application landscape.
Video: My resilience GoTo presentationA couple of months ago we organized our first internal tech conference, Spaces Summit. In the upcoming months we will post some of the talks including the video of the talk. The first movie is from Antoni Huguet Vives (Software Engineer @ bol.
Video: ServiceWorkers SwissKnife at Spaces SummitIn this posts, we’ll show you how we use the CQRS “web scale” pattern to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back office software. This is needed as we rely heavily on our back office to offer our customers the...
How CQRS got our web scale groove backThis year Joost and Ivo were invited to give their tutorial 'Docker for Testers' at the EuroSTAR Conference. Docker has been instrumental in speeding up the development process at bol. com.
We won the award for Best Tutorial at the EuroSTAR 2017 conferenceUncover how bol's data science team reimagined logistics forecasting by building a sustainable data foundation. Instead of quick fixes, they restructured workflows, embraced monotasking, and aligned their codebase with evolving needs. This journey offers insights and lessons for anyone curious about strategic data engineering.
Fast is slow, slow is fast - rethinking Our Data Engineering ProcessNeuro 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 stories"It's not just about acceptance—it's about creating a space where people can truly be themselves." In this episode, Ernst & Daniel from Queer Bol share how they transformed the workplace into a more inclusive place for everyone. Creating a movement—promoting visibility, education, and belonging at Bol.
Queer BolA group of Kotlin enthusiast joined KotlinConf back in December last year in Copenhagen. We invited this group to share their learnings for this conference. Two of the participants are sharing their takeaways from KotlinConf with you.
10 takeaways from KotlinConfTesting 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 WarehouseEver wondered how large organizations adopt new technologies like GraphQL while managing complexity and scale? In this episode, Lars and An from Bol.com share their inspiring journey of transforming their architecture, influencing teams, and building a thriving GraphQL community.
How Bol Adopted GraphQL