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HPA: how it can save you headaches and money

In this blog, we show you how to automatically scale your application resources according to either the CPU consumption or to the incoming load of your application. Background As humans, we are capable of adapting to variable inputs and situations. Some of us are slower, whereas others easily adapt to change. In dynamic environments, flexibility has become one of the most valued skills. As engineers, we also thrive for adaptability. We embrace new technologies, new responsibilities, and new ways of working together. We want to build future proof solutions that react quickly…

HPA: how it can save you headaches and money

Moving to the cloud? Don’t let your application become a downer!

Richard Deurwaarder, on 12-02-2021
Category: Blog, Cloud, Infrastructure, Development Tags: Resilience cloud kubernetes gcp

Introduction At bol.com we have two main ways of running our applications. We can deploy them in a Datacenter (DC) managed by us or we can run them on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Many applications are being migrated from DC to the GCP to take advantage of the different products available in GCP. Switching to the cloud isn’t just a matter of lift ‘n shifting your application though, there are several changes that you should take into account. One of those changes is, how the behavior of the underlying platform…

Moving to the cloud? Don’t let your application become a downer!

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…

Service Mesh – a must have for a dynamic infrastructure

Spaces Summit 2019 – Part II

Peter Paul van de Beek, Peter Brouwers, on 27-06-2019
Category: Podcast Tags: Java Event kubernetes Spaces Summit Podcast Tech Community

Three years ago, a group of enthusiastic engineers gathered together during the Friday drinks. They wanted to interact more in the growing organization. Learn more from each other by sharing cool stories. The plan for a bol.com tech summit was born, they called it Spaces Summit. Three years later the 3rd edition in succession is organized by a dedicated team of committed engineers. It’s the 13th of June and the Techlab Podcast team is on the Spaces Summit 2019 location to give you an impression of the Spaces Summit. In the previous episode of the podcast we interviewed one…

Hackathon delivers again

Maarten Dirkse, on 18-10-2017
Category: Blog, Diversity, Culture, Development, Events Tags: hackathon Development software engineering frontend kubernetes selenium

The 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.