“My past year as a software engineer at bol. com has mostly been dedicated to breaking down one of the big monoliths within our software landscape into smaller services. To be more specific: I’ve been working in a team to extract the processes related to customer returns into a separate microservice.
Video: Insights- Building a Boomerang that doesn’t come back (to haunt you) at Spaces SummitThursday, November 16, 2017, bol. com hosted the Continuous Delivery Amsterdam meetup There were two talks planned: DocOps as part of DevOps, about how to integrate documentation in the developers workflow Developers in Control, about the past, the now, and the future of...
Developers in ControlDue to the influence of agile working and the increasing dynamics of the market, releasing is becoming a bottleneck. The question is: how can we fundamentally accelerate the release process? Rini van solingen explains which measures work in practice and illustrates this based on interviews at bol. com.
DevOps is not a goal - releasing often isThis is the fifth and last post about our growth story. You’ve read about the history of bol. com and the process they made to reach their goal: landing on the moon.
Our agile journey so far – Part 5: Sustaining the change“I have a cool idea”, said every bol. commer. “The customer will love this”, they continue.
Abuser Stories: thinking like a hackerThe 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 againIT infrastructure transitions can be hard. Obviously there are technical challenges to overcome. But what do you do when internal disagreement about the way forward leads to a halt in innovation? Recently I gave a talk about exactly this topic at the Software Circus conference.
Software Circus Interview - The move to the public cloudbol. com joins the Circus The conference with a kick is back! And they have been busy. .
Software Circus 2017This is the fourth post about our growth story. In the previous blog post we explained how bol. com realized an organizational change with YBIYRIYLI (You build it, you run it, you love it).
Our agile journey so far – Part 4: Servant leadersLast year, a Dutch team won the Software Testing World Cup. The newly crowned Software Testing World Cup Champions were so energized by the experience they thought, “why not have a Dutch version as well?” Co-organized and hosted by...
The Dutch Software Testing Championship