At bol.com we believe Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is the best way to balance product innovation and reliability. In essence it’s a particular set of standards, tools and practices that govern how you balance Dev and Ops in a DevOps software engineering team. But when should SRE teams be happy?
When is our SRE team successful?Senior Data Scientist Eryk plays a crucial role in developing and maintaining forecasting projects, specializing in aggregated sales. We talk to him about his journey, facing a challenging pandemic, and being part of the data scientist community at bol.
Navigating chaotic times: forecasting amid the pandemicRobin shares two things that caught his eyes in the world of Frontend
2 Things that caught my eyes in Frontend LandAs Senior Software Engineer Angelica reflects on her journey at bol, one word consistently stands out: community. When talking to us, she openly shares stories about her rapid professional growth, her most challenging project to date, and her desire to continuously step out of her comfort zone and do more.
Evolving in the world of tech: "bol's community helps me thrive"Back in the day, my team couldn't deploy a new software version to production immediately. We had to wait because testing hadn't finished. Or because a big feature wasn't production-ready.
Feature Toggle, one step closer to continuous integration and continuous deliveryIn many systems at bol. com the response speed of our systems is very important. This blog is about the data structures and algorithms we used to make a specific analysis step a lot faster: Finding the longest matching string prefix.
Finding the longest matching string prefix ... fastHow can you make sure images don't slow down your page load performance? All it took us was some unconventional thinking: seti@bol. com. Images We use a lot of images at bol.
From a crazy hackathon idea to an empty queueApplying “web scale” patterns in the bol. com back office Peter Paul van de Beek (IT Architect at bol. com) will show you in this session how we use “web scale” patterns to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back-office software.
Codemotion 2017This year at Spaces Summit, the bol. com annual internal IT conference, I presented a talk about the work our team, Team SmartAds, has been doing in creating a new marketing attribution truth for our platform. About the talk How do we verify that we are using our marketing budget effectively?As bol.
Creating a paradigm shift for bol.com marketing attributionIn the bol. com Tech Community, we get quite some questions on how we build a great engineering culture. Mid-March 2021 the hosts of our podcast joined the Hackages podcast which was live recorded with almost 100 attendees.
Building an Engineering Culture
