I recently had the opportunity to attend Frontmania, a front-end conference held in Utrecht. It was an incredible experience filled with insightful talks, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities with fellow front-end enthusiasts. In this blog post, I will share some highlights from the conference and the key takeaways that I gained from the event.
FrontMania 2023Julita talks about the past year and shares her aspirations in the field of machine learning. “I am very passionate about AI, and I truly believe in its potential for some incredible applications. This time at bol helps me to achieve my future goals while also enjoying a really fun journey along the way.”
From Young Professional to AI ExpertThis is the second instalment of the Coroutine Gotchas series, which contains articles about the coroutine pitfalls we've experienced. In this blog, we aim to clear up confusion about Dispatchers.
Coroutine Gotchas – DispatchersHow do you get the IT management board to serve you coffee on a golden platter? You have to do something good of course, exceptional in fact. In order to tell you how we became top performer instead of database killer by creative use of a cache, we will have to take you back to December 2015, when it all started. December.
From database killer to top performer!Thursday, 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”
