Utrecht JUG – Test Architectures & Hacking into Java web apps

We take a sneak peek into the Utrecht JAVA User Group (JUG) Meetup next week, February 24th. Topics will be: are End-to-End test architectures a Dead End road? And there will be some live hacking: Breaking into your Java web app. This will really give a feel for the importance of security. Besides that, we discuss with one of the founders of the Utrecht JUG why it’s so great to be part of a community. He explains the great initiatives like for instance the Speaker Incubator the JUG offers. Guests…

Utrecht JUG – Test Architectures & Hacking into Java web apps

Everybody is a UX Researcher

Marieke Linssen, on 5-02-2020
Category: Blog, Interaction Design, Interaction Design, UX Tags: Meetup UX research

You are a UX researcher, and you are a UX researcher… Everybody is a UX researcher! That’s kind of our approach to user centered design at bol.com. Does it make the whole process more customer minded? Definitely. Does that improve research quality? Maybe not. Is it scary? Sometimes, but pizza’s and buddies help. And in our experience, it’s worth every bit of effort. We hosted the UX Insight’s meetup at our office in Utrecht in January. We started with food, followed by a presentation and finished off the evening with…

Meetup: Angular and Progressive Web Apps

Peter Paul van de Beek, on 5-06-2019
Category: Development, Events Tags: Meetup Event Development Angular PWA

On Wednesday the 26th of June bol.com will host a meetup about Angular and Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Lars Meijdam en Marcel Visser (both Team Rockstars IT) will present on Progressive Web Apps. What are these PWA’s? What sets them apart from native apps? How to create them? Stefan Nieuwhuis will dive into taming huge enterprise applications with Mono repos, Design Systems & Web Components. Program 17.30 -18.30 Welcome, food and drinks 18.30 – 19.15 Progressive Web Apps – Lars Meijdam en Marcel Visser – Rockstars IT 19.15 – 19.45…

Meetup: René Feiner (MessageBird) & Maarten Dirkse (bol.com) – Migrating to the cloud

Leon van Tegelen, on 9-05-2019
Category: Cloud, Development, Events Tags: Meetup Event cloud Migration

On Wednesday the 15th of May bol.com will host a meetup about migrating from on-prem to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After dinner is served, René Feiner, director of engineering at MessageBird will kick off the evening and talk about how and why they moved from their datacenter to GCP. Then, after a short break, Maarten Dirkse, cloud advocate at bol.com, will discuss bol.com’s ongoing migration to GCP and what lessons they have learned along the way. So if you’re interested in why companies migrate to the cloud and how…

Meetup: Maarten Dirkse & Tariq Ettaji – CI/CD @ bol.com & Xebia

Sjors van Berkel, on 16-01-2019
Category: Cloud, Events Tags: Meetup Event cloud CI/CD

During this meetup we will focus on modern CI/CD practices! Maarten Dirkse, cloud advocate at bol.com, will update us on the migration of bol.com from their in-house data center to the cloud. After a short break, we will continue with the next part of the evening, in which Tariq Ettaji will show us how to run a CI/CD stack using CloudFormation completely free of charge!

Transparency: A holistic approach to software quality

On: 1 Nov 2018 at: bol.com
Category: Events Tags: Testing Meetup Event Software Quality transparancy

Bol.com & Xebia are happy to present to you another meetup on software quality. This time we will have Trish Khoo, keynote speaker at Agile Testing Days 2018, who will present her holistic approach to software quality.

Software Engineering Meetup – Security

Patrick van Dissel, on 26-09-2017
Category: Security, Events Tags: Meetup Event Software Security Hackers

On Thursday the 12th of October, the meetup of Software Engineering about security will be hosted by bol.com together with Zerocopter and Flock.

Software Engineering Meetup – Microservices

Willem Veelenturf, on 11-08-2017
Category: Development, Events Tags: Meetup Event Microservices

On Thursday the 7th of September Meetup of Software Engineering will be hosted by bol.com together with Flock.

DevOps Utrecht June meetup @ bol.com

Maurice Zeijen, on 11-06-2017
Category: Development, Events Tags: Meetup Event devops

Join us on the 22nd of June at the DevOps Utrecht Meetup! For this meetup we have a talk from Maurice Zeijen about Resilience engineering in a microservice landscape. Brian Engel will close this evening by taking us into the world of the Dutch Police and how they’ve adopted DevOps.

Hands-on test tooling workshops by bol.com & VX Company

Joost van Wollingen, on 16-05-2017
Category: Testing, Events Tags: Testing Meetup tooling

New testing tools are introduced every week it seems, but how new and useful are they really? The search for the ultimate tool seems to be a never ending quest.

Video: James Bach on the future of the testing role

Joost van Wollingen, on 21-03-2017
Category: Development, Testing Tags: Testing Meetup James Bach

We hosted the Techlab meetup on the 15th of March, which was a very well visited evening. James kicked off the night in style by speaking about the future of the testing role. He also went into detail on what skills make testers unique and that readiness to pick up tasks is crucial to be able to do a task well. Click read more to see the video!

Video: James Bach on the future of the testing role

Bol.com welcomes Ladies that UX-Utrecht

On: 22 Mar 2017 at: bol.com HQ, Utrecht
Category: Events Tags: Meetup UX

Together with Ladies that UX – Utrecht, we are organizing our first Women in Tech meetup. Join us if you are passionate about UX design. Check out our agenda.

The future of the testing role

On: 15 Mar 2017 at: bol.com HQ, Utrecht
Category: Events Tags: Testing Meetup

For years now, the role of the tester has been the topic of discussion and debate. The way we develop software in the age of Scrum, Agile and DevOps appears to have shifted the tasks and responsibilities associated with software testing for some us. Competitive markets demand a shorter time to market, without impacting quality. During this meetup we will take a deep dive into this topic, started off by James Bach, who will present his vision, followed by the visions of Xebia and bol.com. We hope to offer some…