scale – 4 articles

Understanding customers using their search queries – Podcast

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 30-09-2021
Category: Podcast Tags: scale search customer intent

Imagine you want to buy something. You go to bol.com and you start typing the article in the search bar. Automatically you will be served suggestions and as a result, you want a limited number of articles from our 30 million products catalogue. You select the product you want, press the buy button and there it is, at your doorstep at the selected moment. Sounds simple, right? Inspired by a talk of our guest of this episode earlier this year, we wanted to find out what’s behind the search bar.…

Read more

Moving to multilingual, first step Wallonia

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 16-09-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: scale multilingual French Wallonia Ownership Consistency App First

Bonjour ! Félicitations messieurs, il y a seulement deux semaines, que le bol.com application multilingue est disponible dans les app-stores. That’s how we started this episode. Congratulate our guests with the launch of the multilingual bol.com app. It was launched in the French-speaking part of Belgium, Wallonia. With this launch, over 5 million French-speaking Belgians were able to shop in their native language. In this episode, we dive into this move to multilingual that started two years ago. After the ‘why’ and ‘when’ we go into the ‘how’. From both…

Read more

Innovation Rhythm – How to drink less coffee and achieve more

Peter Brouwers, Peter Paul van de Beek, on 17-06-2020
Category: Podcast Tags: Innovation scale Culture way of working Product teams Agile@scale WoW Product management Transformation

Ever since we recorded the podcast about Agile @ Scale, we wanted some of the people involved again in our show. We care about the topic. Think there is a lot to tell and learn. And it is of interest to a lot of our listeners. That is why at least we think it is awesome that this episode is about Innovation Rhythm – How to drink less coffee and achieve more. In the first Agile@Scale episode we talked about the ‘Why’ of Agile@Scale, the flight levels of Klaus Leopold.…

Read more

How CQRS got our web scale groove back

Peter Paul van de Beek, on 21-06-2017
Category: Blog, Architecture, Development Tags: CQRS Web scale Architecture patterns scale

In this posts, we’ll show you how we use the CQRS “web scale” pattern to achieve scalability and flexibility in our back office software. This is needed as we rely heavily on our back office to offer our customers the best available service.

Read more