TL;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 3: Talks Spaces Summit v2.0At bol. com, we deal with a lot of complex, technical challenges. Luckily, we also attract a lot of people who like a good challenge.
Life of an IT Intern at bol.comLast 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 v2.0Yes, we made it again! Spaces summit 2018 - the bol. com IT conference by engineers, for engineers - happened again last 7th of June, on a hot summer day in our home town Utrecht. The event brought together more than 340 participants from bol.
Spaces Summit v2.0 - “That t-shirt is not black, it is very dark blue”At bol. com, IT grows together with the rest of the organization. We are constantly searching for brilliant new colleagues.
In search for perfect coding interview assignmentWell, pretty cool, I’d say. And even cooler if you are a young professional, fresh out of university and just started in your first job. But our pay-off is “Je kan het met bol.
Organizing your own tech conference: how cool is that?!Boyd (left of Billy) was an intern at bol. com from September 2017 until January 2018. This blog is a conversation between him and his intern mentor, Maurice Zeijen (Software Architect @ bol.
IT internship at bol.comOne of the things that keeps us busy at bol. com is the continuous quest to figure out what else we could do to make our teams better. Even better I should write, since the vast majority of our teams are doing great already and I am very proud of them! However we also believe at bol.
A new idea: to improve teams we don’t need to improve teams…Over 1200 people work at bol. com and our IT department consists of more than 350 engineers, clustered into 60 cross-functional teams. These teams are all grouped in fleets and spaces.
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