By ir. drs. Niels Basjes on 10-12-2018
Category: Data Science & AI, Development Tags: Java Software Open source DataScience Algorithms
In many systems at bol.com the response speed of our systems is very important. This blog is about the data structures and algorithms we used to make a specific analysis step a lot faster: Finding the longest matching string prefix.
Read moreOn: 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.
Read moreBy Mary Gouseti on 12-10-2017
Category: Development, Events Tags: Software Agile Scrum Development University Amsterdam
For the last 4 years, Menno represents bol.com as a guest lecturer in one of the courses of the Software Engineering Master’s program at University of Amsterdam, this year it’s about Requirements engineering.
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By ahuguetvives on 28-09-2017
Category: Blog, Development Tags: Software Development database Front-End
A couple of months ago we organized our first internal tech conference, Spaces Summit. In the upcoming months we will post some of the talks including the video of the talk.
Read moreBy 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.
Read moreBy Maarten Dirkse on 13-09-2017
Category: Architecture, Culture, Cloud, Development Tags: Event Architecture Software Cloudbusting cloud
IT infrastructure transitions can be hard. Obviously there are technical challenges to overcome. But what do you do when internal disagreement about the way forward leads to a halt in innovation?
Read moreBy Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind on 7-02-2017
Category: Development Tags: Architecture Software Maintenance
Software maintenance can be hell. I’m sure that many developers have opened up an existing codebase, only to be greeted with a plethora of packages. You can usually see in excruciating detail the kinds of classes the software has. Any features implemented by the software are obfuscated. And once you slowly, ever so slowly, get to know the software, it gets worse: all those packages have a more or less good reason to exist. This means refactoring bit by bit (the boy scout rule) only makes the situation worse, and…
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