As 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 queueFor years now, the role of the tester has been the topic of discussion and debate. The way we develop software in the age of Scrum, Agile and DevOps appears to have shifted the tasks and responsibilities associated with software testing for some us. Competitive markets demand a shorter time to market, without impacting quality.
The future of the testing roleData Science and Machine Learning are becoming more integrated into current businesses. Especially in e-commerce there is huge potential for predictive modeling. It is therefore no surprise that bol.
Getting organized: cleaning up bol.com with Data ScienceAlways wanted to know how bol. com teams innovate faster with Google Cloud? Visit our booth during the Google Cloud Summit in the Amsterdam RAI on October 10. https://inthecloud.
Google Cloud SummitResilience engineering in a microservice landscape Attend my talk at GOTO to learn how we, the largest online retail platform in the Netherlands and Belgium, achieve fault tolerance. The bol. com website depends on dozens of services that might fail at any time.
GOTO Amsterdam 2017The 9th edition of the bol. com internal hackathon was held on Friday, October 6th, and participants were able to present their projects to the colleagues last Thursday. "The Routine" The 9th edition of the bol.
Hackathon delivers againNew testing tools are introduced every week it seems, but how new and useful are they really? The search for the ultimate tool seems to be a never ending quest. As IT professionals we are required to continuously stay up to date, to keep learning and expand our knowledge. Let us help you with that.
Hands-on test tooling workshops by bol.com & VX Company
