Yes, it’s confirmed! Bol. com is going to the Cloud! The contract with Google has been recently signed, which gives us about 1 year to migrate from Platfora (our BI visualization tool), before it stops having support. 1 year thus to migrate many datasets and dashboards to the Cloud.
Introducing Stanley: bol.com highway to (heaven) BigQueryThe state of Reactive Streams - watch the presentation and listen to the podcast. International Keynote speaker Oleh Dokuka gave a presentation on the state of Reactive Streams at bol. com.
The state of Reactive StreamsOur Small Web Apps or SWAPs, in short, are something like the SOA for Front-End. We aim for separate deployable parts of the Front-End we have available for our Plaza partners, suppliers and internal users. In the Front-End we also encountered that we had teams waiting for each other before they could bring functionality to Pro.
Small Web AppsIn this episode of the podcast, we talk about API development for the retail platform. A very important subject for a retail platform like bol. com.
API development for the retail platformWe think "the Cloud" is to broad a subject to handle in one episode of the podcast. That is why we break down our cloud journey in small pieces and go over them in separate episodes. This time we dive into "Redesign for the cloud – horizontal scaling".
Redesign for the cloud – horizontal scalingIt’s common sense of course to keep your codebase clean all the time, but this isn’t always the case. It simply happens that a codebase grows in ways that were not foreseen on forehand resulting in an unclear architecture...
Refactoring your codeThe big question in this episode is “How can we create 10 million personalized webshops? Tailormade for every one of our customers so it suites their needs best?” In short, the answering is Measuring 2. 0. This enables us to measure more accurately how customers are behaving in our webshop.
Measuring 2.0 - Streaming measurementsOne of the challenges in a (micro-)service landscape is to keep track of all capabilities in the services. Another is to keep track of the consumers of your service and the consumers beyond. Taking our IT landscape as...
Software Parade; the fun way to create an overview of hundreds of applications in Neo4JTL;DR: this article discusses in detail my presentation at Spaces Summit 2018. I talked about the need to stop smashing our keyboards and "blindly" focus on "high-speed", and start thinking about what we are doing, why and how we are doing it. By "zooming out and thinking" we take architecture and design into consideration.
Stop Smashing your Keyboard! Zoom out! Think!Last June, Spaces Summit was organized by and for bol. com employees. At Techlab, we want to celebrate this event by highlighting two presentations every month.
Part 1: Talks Spaces Summit v2.0