Spaces Talk #5: Super Mario’s Dive Through The Gitlab Pipelines
Spaces Summit is our annual internal bol. com conference for IT, by IT, and friends: Two fun days of inspiration, knowledge sharing, bragging, and community. This year, our 4th edition, was our first digital version of the summit.
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.
Introducing Stanley: bol.com highway to (heaven) BigQuery
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.
We 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".
Cloud as Enabler to become more data-driven. The adjective data-driven means that progress in an activity is compelled by data, rather than by intuition, personal experience or a gut feeling.
Googling data-driven gives you over 637 mln.
Meetup: René Feiner (MessageBird) & Maarten Dirkse (bol.com) - Migrating to the cloud
On Wednesday the 15th of May bol. com will host a meetup about migrating from on-prem to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After dinner is served, René Feiner, director of engineering at MessageBird will kick off the evening and talk about how and why they moved from their datacenter to GCP.