The garbage collector is a complex piece of machinery that can be difficult to tune. Not surprisingly, many developers dread touching the GC. If you don’t give the GC just a little bit of care, your whole application might be running suboptimal. This blog post shows how we got two production applications to perform better by following simple tuning steps.
Spicing up your app’s performance - a simple recipe for GC tuning“Working at bol.com allows me the freedom to innovate, inspire, and empower other women to do the same.” We are talking to Noha Shafik, who started her career in Egypt and has recently been promoted as bol.com’s Principle Engineering Manager. Guided by her search for personal values, Noha leads a diverse team at bol.com while staying true to herself, her strengths and her purpose.
Contributing to change & equality for women in techAlright, folks, unless you’re one of those rare people who own a genius cat that can code (and if you are, we need to talk), setting up a local database might seem like a daunting task. Fear not! With Docker and Flyway, it’s so straightforward that even your cat could do it — well, theoretically. So let’s dive into it!
Database Setup So Easy, Your Cat Could Do It: Docker and Flyway EditionThursday, November 16, 2017, bol. com hosted the Continuous Delivery Amsterdam meetup There were two talks planned: DocOps as part of DevOps, about how to integrate documentation in the developers workflow Developers in Control, about the past, the now, and the future of...
Developers in ControlDue to the influence of agile working and the increasing dynamics of the market, releasing is becoming a bottleneck. The question is: how can we fundamentally accelerate the release process? Rini van solingen explains which measures work in practice and illustrates this based on interviews at bol. com.
DevOps is not a goal - releasing often isJoin us on the 22nd of June at the DevOps Utrecht Meetup! For this meetup we have a talk from Maurice Zeijen about Resilience engineering in a microservice landscape. Brian Engel will close this evening by taking us into the world of the Dutch Police and how they've adopted DevOps. Schedule:18:00 - Doors open.
DevOps Utrecht June meetup @ bol.comThe garbage collector is a complex piece of machinery that can be difficult to tune. Not surprisingly, many developers dread touching the GC. If you don’t give the GC just a little bit of care, your whole application might be running suboptimal. This blog post shows how we got two production applications to perform better by following simple tuning steps.
Spicing up your app’s performance - a simple recipe for GC tuningAlright, folks, unless you’re one of those rare people who own a genius cat that can code (and if you are, we need to talk), setting up a local database might seem like a daunting task. Fear not! With Docker and Flyway, it’s so straightforward that even your cat could do it — well, theoretically. So let’s dive into it!
Database Setup So Easy, Your Cat Could Do It: Docker and Flyway EditionWe’re talking to Elisa, bol’s very first UX Research Lead. With us, she shares stories about her journey, her future goals, ánd Continuous Interviewing – a successfully implemented program that now empowers several of bol’s product teams to regularly connect with their shoppers.
Leading the way in UX research: “This role was completely mine to shape”In this article we’ll first talk about the fundamentals of retrospectives: why they are important and how to structure a simple but effective version. We’ll address a common problem: no actions and/or actors are defined. Next, we’ll take it one step further, and discuss how to avoid “getting stuck” by regularly changing the format of your retrospectives. To top it off, I offer some more varied formats.
Bye Bye, Boring Retrospectives
