Forecasting demand at bol.com during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people around the world and in very different ways. While governments and health organisations seek to find solutions to this global humanitarian crisis, online retailers have been put to the test of how well they can serve their customers’ needs during these challenging times. Being part of bol.com’s Forecasting Team brought these challenges closer to home, and not only because of the working from home situation.
Product Management Journey at the Purpose Hackathon 2023
As a member of Team Paradise, our journey through the Purpose Hackathon 2023 was an exhilarating experience that provided valuable insights into product management and problem-solving. Over the course of four days, we engaged in a rigorous process of problem exploration, ideation, and solution-building, with a focus on making sustainable assortment more attractive to customers.
With a growing microservice landscape, the importance of aggregation layers is also increasing. For some of these aggregation services we are trying Facebook’s GraphQL, with two of them now running on our production environment. We've found that one of the drawbacks in using GraphQL is maintenance on both domain models and GraphQL queries.
Time to reflect on season 2 of the bol. com techlab podcast with Peter Paul van de Beek and Peter Brouwers. Thanks for all the support in 2020 and we love to see you back in 2021 as guest and listener, Happy New Year!
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A new idea: to improve teams we don’t need to improve teams…
One of the things that keeps us busy at bol. com is the continuous quest to figure out what else we could do to make our teams better. Even better I should write, since the vast majority of our teams are doing great already and I am very proud of them! However we also believe at bol.
Bye Bye Hibernate – Discovering alternatives to Hibernate in Kotlin
At bol.com we host a hackathon day every so many months. Developers get to pitch their hackathon idea, so that other developers can join and help them. Sander was curious about other ORM frameworks available for Kotlin. And so, the idea to look for alternatives of Hibernate in Kotlin as a hackathon project came up.
On The NextBuild Conference I will host a talk about Designing scalable data intensive applications.
At bol. com the datavolumes we need to process exceed the capacity of any single computer.
Last year, a Dutch team won the Software Testing World Cup. The newly crowned Software Testing World Cup Champions were so energized by the experience they thought, “why not have a Dutch version as well?” Co-organized and hosted by...
