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How Istio and Argo CD helped us to debug platform migration issues for our App

How Istio and Argo CD helped us to debug platform migration issues for our App

The combination of GitOps, Argo CD, Istio, and Kubernetes gave us a flexible and secure way to debug migration issues with our app…
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Kees C. Bakker
Platform engineering within Wehkamp

Platform engineering within Wehkamp

At Wehkamp, we always look for innovation and ways to improve our tech hub, and in the last months we looked at Platform Engineering.
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Ruben van de Kamp
Grafana, I want slugs back for my Hubot! 😭

Grafana, I want slugs back for my Hubot! 😭

Because all our bots use the slug to display dahsboards in Slack. Let’s fix that…
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Kees C. Bakker
Don’t use Slack Incoming WebHooks; App Creation is Dead Simple!

Don’t use Slack Incoming WebHooks; App Creation is Dead Simple!

Moving away to an application is super easy with this manifest. You’ll have your app up and running within 2 minutes.
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Kees C. Bakker
ArgoCD ApplicationSet for CronJob

ArgoCD ApplicationSet for CronJob

Learn how to scale pods to zero with Keda and these two handy cronjobs.
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Chris Vahl
Shutting down Kubernetes dev environments with KEDA

Shutting down Kubernetes dev environments with KEDA

The last months we’ve been working on our new container platform based on Kubernetes and implementing a GitOps way of working with ArgoCD…
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Chris Vahl
How we set up our e-commerce microsite environment

How we set up our e-commerce microsite environment

I work for Wehkamp which is one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the Netherlands with millions of customers every month. A couple of…
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Berry de Witte
Why well written commit messages can be of more importance than you think

Why well written commit messages can be of more importance than you think

I often come along commits in repo’s that don’t make any sense or are way too generic in my opinion. Here’s my point of view on why I think…
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Berry de Witte
How Apollo GraphQL had a major impact on our microsite performance

How Apollo GraphQL had a major impact on our microsite performance

How in the end, less became performant. About the journey we made with GraphQL which negatively impacted the performance of our microsite.
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Berry de Witte
Tech @ Wehkamp: A travelogue

Tech @ Wehkamp: A travelogue

I have been at Wehkamp for quite a few years now. An important reason for that is our unofficial motto: “Never a dull moment.” That is…
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Robert Kranenburg
How to get more from Scrum (and why testers make perfect Scrum Masters)

How to get more from Scrum (and why testers make perfect Scrum Masters)

Some years ago, when I was just starting my IT career and SCRUM was becoming the default way of working for software companies, I had a…
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Adrian Ghitu
Team Culture

Team Culture

August 2021, the importance of the right mindset in a team…
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Anneke Keller
Structurize your GraphQL implementation with fragments and unions

Structurize your GraphQL implementation with fragments and unions

In some cases, an API could return an array containing multiple different values. In our case, we use Contentful for all our content…
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Berry de Witte
Dependency Injection based on request headers

Dependency Injection based on request headers

Dependency Injection (DI) helps us to change the behavior of parts of our application on the fly. This is especially neat when you want to…
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Kees C. Bakker
Implementing DRY with Python decorators

Implementing DRY with Python decorators

Decorators allow you to wrap your python functions in a so called decorator to get extra functionality for free. Let’s find out how!
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Jari (LotU)
How performance budgets and SpeedCurve are helping us keeping a high performant website

How performance budgets and SpeedCurve are helping us keeping a high performant website

After competing in the Northern European Page Speed race last year we boosted the performance of our website but we didn’t want to drop…
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Berry de Witte
How to create your own basic Node Lighthouse audit service inside a Docker container

How to create your own basic Node Lighthouse audit service inside a Docker container

At Wehkamp we wanted to collect and visualize the performance of our website. Of course there are third party tools that can offer you…
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Berry de Witte
Single query UPSERTs in PostgreSQL

Single query UPSERTs in PostgreSQL

All while maintaining auto-incrementing IDs
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Jari (LotU)
There can be only one

There can be only one

And making sure of that can be quite simple.
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Robert Kranenburg
Streaming Kafka topic to Delta table (S3) with Spark Structured Streaming

Streaming Kafka topic to Delta table (S3) with Spark Structured Streaming

At Wehkamp we use Apache Kafka in our event driven service architecture. It handles high loads of messages really well. We use Apache…
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Kees C. Bakker
ActiveDirectory automation with AWS

ActiveDirectory automation with AWS

At Wehkamp we want to enable teams to use what they need to get their job done. With AWS we can automate a lot, but servers…
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Chris Vahl
Say yes to auto deploy, it can be only one click away!

Say yes to auto deploy, it can be only one click away!

At Wehkamp we have a pretty nice, fast and optimized process in place for getting our code easily and automated to development and…
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Berry de Witte
Validate strongly typed options when using config sections

Validate strongly typed options when using config sections

I like to validate my application configuration upon startup. Especially when doing local development, I want to know which application…
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Kees C. Bakker
My Little List of Tools for Prototyping

My Little List of Tools for Prototyping

7 free & online tools to boost prototyping productivity
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Kees C. Bakker
Connect to Jira with a Private Key (OAuth) using .NET

Connect to Jira with a Private Key (OAuth) using .NET

We have a .NET service that needs to connect with Jira. Requests have to be signed with OAuth (Private Key). Here’s what we came up with.
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Kees C. Bakker
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