From Lawyer to Engineer
What's it like to switch from a courtroom to your favourite code editor?
From Lawyer to EngineerWhat's it like to switch from a courtroom to your favourite code editor?
From Lawyer to EngineerOn this episode, Lee September joins us to tell his inspiring story on Neurodiversity and Leadership. He shares his personal journey from engineer to management and how being neurodivergent played a role within this story. From personal growth to being inclusive to anyone. Knowing when to read the room and adjusting accordingly to put everyone in their strengths.
Neurodivergent by Nature, Leader by ChoiceWhat happens when you dedicate a day to breaking things on purpose? At Bol.com, it’s called Chaos Day—a day where teams intentionally cause failures to uncover weaknesses and build confidence in their systems.
Chaos Engineering DayDBT – Data Build Tool. A development framework that combines modular SQL with software engineering best practices to make data transformation reliable, fast, and fun.
Data Build Tool - a tool to build dataChantal Schinkels, author of the Book "The IT Girl", is about to release her second book. It's called "The buying drip" or in Dutch "Het Koopinfuus". We have the scoop with her to dive into this book.
The Buying Drip - A scoop of the 2nd book of Chantal SchinkelsDDoS attacks, malicious attempts to disrupt normal traffic, can be countered in different ways. Dependent on the type of attack one or more valid solutions are available. However, in the e-commerce field, we found out we needed a specific solution for one type of attack. We created this washing solution based on AI and Cloud native solutions.
DDoS - specific attacks require AI powered washing solutionsWith software engineers of both Xebia and bol.com, we discuss the introduction of a language like Go in an organisation. We check its readability and simplicity and find ways to onboard engineers in the Go experience.
Golang as simple asOn this episode we're joined by Bart Enkelaar and Rob Klein Gunnewiek as the experts on SRE! This talk will cover lots of SRE principles, insights and innovations within the teams at Bol. Next to that, we've had a lovely chat with lots of laughter. So enough reasons to grab a nice drinks and enjoy the episode!
End to End ObservabilityWe invited Chantal Schinkels, author of the book The IT Girl, to our studio to talk about this book and the topic Women in Tech.
The IT Girl - Chantal SchinkelsWhat's it really like to go from writing code to leading people? In this episode, we talk with Babiche and Nikolas, who recently transitioned from engineer to Engineering Manager. They share the hard truths—from learning to let go of coding during incidents to the surprising power of walking meetings. If you've ever wondered what an EM actually does all day or are considering the move yourself, this conversation is for you.
From Engineer to Engineering Manager