TechLab by Bol
Episodes
Covid-19 Trilogy Part II - Season Load and season mindset
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 rules the world, so it determines the subjects for our podcast. Just like others, we moved from studio recording to home recording. Basically...
Covid-19 Trilogy-part I - How Office Automation set the prerequisites for WFH
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Covid-19 rules the world, so it determines the subjects for our podcast. Just like others, we moved from studio recording to home recording. Basically...
Chaos Engineering - every incident is a missed experiment
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chaos engineering... mostly in IT we are focused on structure and order. So, what is it and what can it bring? We go over the steps: Start by defini...
Crossfit - fit for life and fit for purpose
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like the Romans already said: Mens sana in corpore sano. A healthy mind in a healthy body. One sentence in an article from one of our colleagues trigg...
Utrecht JUG - Test Architectures & Hacking into Java web apps
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We 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 ...
Performance testing the chat app
12 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With 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 ou...
PostgreSQL - Migration and Performance
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode has 2 subjects: PostgreSQL migration and performance. The two guests of our show will present during the PostgreSQL User group meetup at ...
Experimentation - it starts with courage and curiosity
29 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The two guests of our show work in our experimentation team. They set a target at the beginning of 2019: Our goal is to help hundreds of people at bol...
The Spaces Championship - our code competition
23 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It was briefly mentioned in our episode on Advent of Code. We also started an internal Coding Championship. Spaces Championship.What this episode cove...
Everybody is a UX Researcher
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk to Marieke and Tadeusz since we were intrigued by the title of their meetup presentation: Everybody is a UX Researcher. Since...
10 takeaways from KotlinConf
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A group of Kotlin enthusiast joined KotlinConf back in December last year in Copenhagen. We invited this group to share their learnings for this conf...
Advent of Code 2019
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The subject of this podcast episode is totally in line with the holiday season. Time for the advent calendars in many different formats. One of thes...
Dealing with Technical Debt - an experiment
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the aspects that keep popping up in software development: Technical Debt. Some created on purpose, for example, to get features into production...
How we tame Google Cloud resources with R2D2
04 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How we tame Google Cloud resources with R2D2. We had some episodes on the cloud already. Now it’s time to discuss how bol.com combines the promises ...
Hackathon
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The angle for this episode of our podcast is hackathons. At the time of the recording, there was one going on in our headquarters in Utrecht. What is ...
Young Professional Program
20 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about growing talent. We dive into how we approach this as bol.com in our Young Professional Program. Also called YPs.What th...
The state of Reactive Streams
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The state of Reactive Streams - watch the presentation and listen to the podcast. International Keynote speaker Oleh Dokuka gave a presentation on the...
Women in Tech
07 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is on women in tech. Our guests are two speakers at the upcoming European Women in Tech Conference later this month in Amsterdam. To be h...
UX Research to support the partners on our platform
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about User Interfaces (UI) and User Experience(UX). Since this is a very visible topic, everybody has an opinion on it. Even ...
The Road to Devoxx
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about a way to be inspired and inspiring others, learn from each other and grow your network: Conferences! And more in detail...
Prepare for the most wonderful time of the year - Season Readiness
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we dive deeper into the IT aspects of a business topic. How to prepare for the peak load of the season – Black Friday, Sinterklaas, ...
Small Web Apps
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our Small Web Apps or SWAPs, in short, are something like the SOA for Front-End. We aim for separate deployable parts of the Front-End we have availab...
API development for the retail platform
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about API development for the retail platform. A very important subject for a retail platform like bol.com. Gi...
Redesign for the cloud – horizontal scaling
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We think "the Cloud" is to broad a subject to handle in one episode of the podcast. That is why we break down our cloud journey in small pie...
Coaching - more impact with Human Systems Engineering
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, we talk with two of our coaches in tech about making an impact on the performance of teams and people. The reference they use to do t...
Measuring 2.0 - Streaming measurements
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The big question in this episode is “How can we create 10 million personalized webshops? Tailormade for every one of our customers so it suites t...
Formule X - Accelerate your organisation
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, we talk about accelerating organisations. We invited Jurriaan Kamer and Rini van Solingen to our studio. They recently...
Interaction Design - Celebrate Failure
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we learn most in our lives? When things that we do succeed, or when we do stuff and they don't turn out how we expected? They "fail...
Testing in autonomous teams - speed is everything
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Testing in autonomous teams - speed is everything The role of testers has evolved in the last decade. Test automation has become the norm. So, tester...
Cloud as Enabler to become more data driven
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud as Enabler to become more data-driven. The adjective data-driven means that progress in an activity is compelled by data, rather than by intuiti...
'OK Google.....' - the future of voice is here
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
'OK Google.....' - the future of voice is here. Everybody with a Google Assistant on their phone or with Google Speakers installed uses this...
Agile at Scale - Reality is complex, don't expect simple solutions
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Agile at Scale. Ever since we started our journey into Agile and scrum, we have been wondering whether we were on the right path for business and IT a...
Audiobooks - How to introduce the Netflix for reading?
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As podcast makers, we are very happy that we can talk about a subject that is very close to ours. In this episode, we talk about one of the recent pro...
Software Parade; the fun way to create an overview of hundreds of applications in Neo4J
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the challenges in a (micro-)service landscape is to keep track of all capabilities in the services. Another is to keep track of the consumers o...
Scary close to fully autonomous teams at Onefootball
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode of the bol.com Techlab Podcast. It’s recorded on at our own Tech Conference the bol.com spaces summit. Directly after Jim ...
Spaces Summit 2019 - Part II
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago, a group of enthusiastic engineers gathered together during the Friday drinks. They wanted to interact more in the growing organizati...
Spaces Summit 2019 - Part I
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Three years ago a group of enthusiastic engineers gathered together during the Friday drinks. They wanted to interact more in the growing organizatio...
Cultural Diversity - It all starts with yourself
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we touch upon a cultural aspect of Tech within bol.com, Cultural Diversity. Over the last couple of years, our international communit...
Axle the opinionated support for bol.com scrum teams
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk about Axle. Axle is our internal framework for building Java-based applications. Well actually as you will learn in this epis...
Performance boost the pick algorithm in the warehouse
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we dive into the world were e-commerce becomes physical. We talk about the bol.com Fulfilment Center (BFC). Within these centres, we h...
Improve the customer journey with Intent Recognition and Conversational Analytics
23 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Daniel and Emiel, software engineer and product owner in the customer support domain. In this domain, the focus is to he...
From zero to PRO: Using GO @ bol.com
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about GO. Go is not a language that is used the most at bol.com. That’s is Java, together with Kotlin.What this episode cove...
No more crystal ball for forecasting, data science it is
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As long as retail exists, people tried to predict the future. An accurate forecast makes it much easier to buy the correct amount of products from sup...
Our Kotlin adoption journey
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Kotlin was first used by our teams a couple of years ago. It had an interesting start that shows how we adopt technology in general. In different feat...
Introduction to our upcoming bol.com Techlab podcast episodes
01 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Welcome to the bol.com Tech Podcast. In this podcast we share our experience with you to learn and entertain. Peeking behind the screens of IT a...