The garbage collector is a complex piece of machinery that can be difficult to tune. Not surprisingly, many developers dread touching the GC. If you don’t give the GC just a little bit of care, your whole application might be running suboptimal. This blog post shows how we got two production applications to perform better by following simple tuning steps.
Spicing up your app’s performance - a simple recipe for GC tuningWith 2 of our engineers, we look into how we keep enhancing the quality of our webshop using canary testing and analysis, contract testing and end-to-end testing in isolation.
Growing quality in our webshopIntroduction It happens a lot that listening to a podcast sparks new questions. So, after our episode on Front-End quality, we wanted to know more about Storybook. This coincided with some people reaching out to us to collaborate in the podcast.
The Storybook storyIntroduction In this episode, we show a little of our front-end love. And our love for testing and enjoying the quality of a good front-end. It was time for that because the last time we talked about front end related stuff was quit some episodes ago.
Front End Quality in an interactive-heavy applicationSpaces Summit is our annual internal bol. com conference for IT, by IT, and friends: Two fun days of inspiration, knowledge sharing, bragging, and community. This year, our 4th edition, was our first digital version of the summit.
Spaces Talk #5: Super Mario’s Dive Through The Gitlab PipelinesWe 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.
Utrecht JUG - Test Architectures & Hacking into Java web appsWith only a few weeks to go to our peak season, we wanted to ensure that the chat app on our webshop was performing up to par. An important part of our customers' questions is answered via this chat app. You can feel the importance of it to be able to handle a load of questions during our peak season.
Performance testing the chat appTesting in autonomous teams - speed is everything The role of testers has evolved in the last decade. Test automation has become the norm. So, testers have grown more towards developers.
Testing in autonomous teams - speed is everythingBol. 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.
Transparency: A holistic approach to software qualityLast June, Spaces Summit was organized by and for bol. com employees. At Techlab, we want to celebrate this event by highlighting two presentations every month.
Part 2: Talks Spaces Summit v2.0