oday we sat down with Elinor and Alexandra, two of the five Enterprise Architects at bol.com, to demystify one of our most crucial yet misunderstood functions. They pull back the curtain on how they bring structure to massive scale, enable smarter decisions, and why they believe every engineer is an architect.
Ever wondered how large organizations adopt new technologies like GraphQL while managing complexity and scale? In this episode, Lars and An from Bol.com share their inspiring journey of transforming their architecture, influencing teams, and building a thriving GraphQL community.
Tech Radar - hard discussions lead to transparency
We discuss the latest version of the tech radar. Especially the way we implemented it and the process to get things on the radar will be recognisable for you.
Proof data consistency in a micro service landscape
Introduction
Even if it doesn't appeal to you, you might want to think about it when you work in a larger microservice landscape or have a serious big data platform. . .
Spaces Talk #4: From prototype to production. A real-life cloud story.
This year the bol. com Spaces Summit was held virtually and Anastasija and myself, Quiran Storey, presented a talk on a topic that is close to our daily work "From prototype to production. A real-life cloud story.
Spaces Talk #2: Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture
I’ve had the great pleasure of giving a talk at the Spaces Summit 2020, the internal bol. com Tech conference.
About the talk
Maximizing the impact of our products is more than just thinking about their technical architecture.
Great products are build on a great Product Architecture
Today we explore our product architecture. We have been talking with Jim van de Waal about product organizations. We spoke to our Agile at Scale friends about product organisations and Agile at Scale.
Utrecht JUG - Test Architectures & Hacking into Java web apps
We take a sneak peek into the Utrecht JAVA User Group (JUG) Meetup next week, February 24th. Topics will be: are End-to-End test architectures a Dead End road? And there will be some live hacking: Breaking into your Java web app. This will really give a feel for the importance of security.