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    BAPC2020 – Olympic spirit or serious business?

    Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 4-01-2021
    Category: Podcast Tags: Culture software engineering Engineering Culture Young Professional Program YP Championship competition BAPC

    Introduction No rhythm like algorithms. We have been talking in the podcast about programming contest before. For example, about our own Spaces Championship and Advent of code, which also takes place at the end of the year. Today we’ll be talking to some participants in the BAPC – The Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest. Like stated on the website of BAPC, it is a contest in which about 90 teams from leading universities in Luxemburg, Belgium and The Netherlands participate. The teams have to solve a series of algorithmic problems and…

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    BAPC2020 –  Olympic spirit or serious business?

    Chaos Engineering – every incident is a missed experiment

    Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 4-03-2020
    Category: Podcast Tags: devops Development Engineering Culture SRE Chaos Engineering

    Chaos engineering… mostly in IT we are focused on structure and order. So, what is it and what can it bring? We go over the steps: Start by defining ‘steady state’ as some measurable output of a system that indicates normal behaviour Hypothesize that this steady-state will continue in both the control group and the experimental group Introduce variables that reflect real-world events like servers that crash, hard drives that malfunction, network connections that are severed, etc. Try to disprove the hypothesis by looking for a difference in steady-state between…

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    Chaos Engineering – every incident is a missed experiment

    Young Professional Program

    Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 20-11-2019
    Category: Podcast Tags: skills Culture Engineering Culture Podcast Learn Young Professional Program YP

    In this episode, we talk about growing talent. We dive into how we approach this as bol.com in our Young Professional Program. Also called YPs. On our recruitment web site, we call this “the IT journey of a lifetime”. Is that just marketing or is there more to it?  Guests Bojan Filipovic; software engineer in team Bond, in the content fleet. Just graduated from the young professional program.  Martin Cekodhima; software engineer in 4B – financial processing – even sexier than Bond. It’s FinTech in an e-commerce company, need we…

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    Testing in autonomous teams – speed is everything

    Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 14-08-2019
    Category: Podcast Tags: Testing Culture Engineering Culture Test automation Podcast

    Testing in autonomous teams – speed is everything The role of testers has evolved in the last decade. Test automation has become the norm. So, testers have grown more towards developers. What are the skills they need to succeed? With the rise of autonomous teams and product teams, more and more tasks of testers moved to other roles like developers. What knowledge must be spread over these roles to ensure that we can release to PRO without fearing what will happen? And there have been other evolutions like the one…

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    Introduction to our upcoming bol.com Techlab podcast episodes

    Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 1-05-2019
    Category: Podcast Tags: Development Engineering Culture Podcast Tech Community platform

    “Welcome to the bol.com Tech Podcast. In this podcast we share our experience with you to learn and entertain. Peeking behind the screens of IT and Tech in general at bol.com.  Showing you our approach to IT, e-commerce and retail platforms.” This is our opening sentence of the upcoming episodes of the bol.com Tech podcast. In this introduction episode we like to share with you: What is this podcast about, why did we start it and why should you listen to it? We hope that you enjoy the podcasts as…

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    Organizing your own tech conference: how cool is that?!

    Frederieke Ubels, on 8-05-2018
    Category: Blog, Culture, Development, Events Tags: Young Professional Event Community conference Engineering Culture

    Well, 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.com” and that’s exactly how it is!

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