By 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, 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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