Making sense of the user agent string

    By ir. drs. Niels Basjes on 30-03-2017
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    Ever since I’ve started working for a WebAnalytics company in 2005 I’ve been working on problems related to making sense of web data. One of the most difficult elements in this type of analysis is making sense of the user agent.
    Very often the raw web data I work with is stored in Apache HTTPD access log files that have been compressed using gzip.

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    My baby was leaky and now it’s not

    By Roy Jacobs on 7-02-2017
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    When you build a service at bol.com your responsibility doesn’t end once the build is green. You’re actually supposed to run it (and keep it running) in production, too. Luckily, our team doesn’t have to do this all by ourselves: there are platform and infrastructure teams to turn to and other development teams to harass over coffee. It’s a bit like caring for a newborn baby I suppose: you try to do a lot yourself but when the baby starts crying for the first time you’ll need all the help…

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    My baby was leaky and now it’s not