By Frederieke Ubels & Feike Groen on 20-07-2017
Category: Development Tags: Architecture Microservices Scalability devops Autonomy
What started out as a means of technical scalability turned out to be the most important driver of team autonomy – and vice versa. This is our story of Backspin, Rabbits and the Man on the Moon.
Read moreBy ntinnemeier on 12-06-2017
Category: Blog, Culture, Development Tags: Architecture Microservices database Grafana
How do you get the IT management board to serve you coffee on a golden platter? You have to do something good of course, exceptional in fact. In order to tell you how we became top performer instead of database killer by creative use of a cache, we will have to take you back to December 2015, when it all started.
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On: 14 Jun 2017 at: Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam
Category: Events Tags: Microservices Open source Hystrix Resilience
Attend “Resilience engineering in a microservice landscape” by Maurice Zeijen to learn how we at bol.com achieve fault tolerance.
Read moreOn: 17 May 2017 at: Kromhouthal, Amsterdam
Category: Events Tags: Event CQRS Architecture Microservices
Applying “web scale” patterns in the bol.com back office Peter Paul van de Beek (IT Architect at bol.com) will show you in this session how we use “web scale” patterns to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back-office software. We will guide you through how we apply patterns like CQRS, event sourcing and micro services to solve puzzles in our back-office services. Interesting is that in our experience we don’t need these just to solve technical problems, they also help us solve some of our business problems! Sign up for…
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