Infrastructure – 3 articles

Service Mesh – a must have for a dynamic infrastructure

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 3-12-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: cloud kubernetes Infrastructure istio service mesh network

Introduction Weaving a Service Mesh for Multiple Clusters at bol.com – that was the title for the presentation our guests gave during the virtual KubeCon and CloudNativeCon 2020 earlier this year. This triggered our curiosity. We have questions like what is this service mesh about? Why do we need it? How did we implement it? Guests Remco Overdijk; Tech Lead Provisioning Fleet / Expert System Engineer at bol.com. You might know him from the episode where we spoke about Kubernetes. James Brook; Cloud Solutions Architect at Google Hosts Peter Brouwers…

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How we tame Google Cloud resources with R2D2

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 4-12-2019
Category: Podcast Tags: Autonomy cloud Infrastructure R2D2

How we tame Google Cloud resources with R2D2. We had some episodes on the cloud already. Now it’s time to discuss how bol.com combines the promises of the cloud and their requirements for Reproducibility and Reliability. For instance, balance infinite resources and ultimate autonomy with security. Within bol.com we developed R2D2. R2D2 stands for our Reproducible Resource Deployment Definition tool which combines the functions of Terraform, Cloud SDK and Puppet Labs. It helps us to ensure Recovery, Security, Self-service, Stability and Scalability in our move to the cloud. The reason…

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Berlin Buzzwords: Measuring 2.0 in production

Ivan Budincevic, on 6-11-2017
Category: Blog, Infrastructure, Development Tags: Infrastructure Web Analytics Apache Flink Kafka Avro Parguet

At the Berlin Buzzwords 2017 conference I had the chance to talk about our new measuring infrastructure at bol.com.

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