Wehkamp-techblog

Our company was invited by Google to participate in this years Northern Europe Page Speed Race. Goal of this race was to get the highest…

Transitions are hard. Contrary to what some people might want you to believe, humans don’t adopt well to change. When encountered with…

Our DAM sends assets to an S3 bucket. We would like to classify the images with ML classifiers using AWS Lambda. Main problem: size!

At Wehkamp, we build our front-end with React and GraphQL, which is a beautiful stack to work in. For a new project, I took it upon myself…

We run a webshop and that’s pretty cool. This means moving fast and making use of the latest and greatest technologies and methods. It…

Some of our services at Wehkamp require some headers to be set, otherwise they return an error. When calling these services directly from…

Automation, Noun: The use or introduction of automatic equipment in a manufacturing or other process or facility

Last Summer, we were looking for a tool to help us serve our Machine Learning models. This is a follow-up to that story.

We will walk you through the first steps we made in our Clipper journey.

Imagine you have a dictionary of objects and you wanted to convert it into a sorted dictionary based on a list of keys. What would you do?

Slack is fully awesome. We used it for communication and DevOps. Let’s explore how to use the Slack API to create cool progress indicators.

At wehkamp we believe in enabling teams to automate their work. Lately we’ve been playing around with GitHub’s Hubot project to build…

June 5th, 2017 - McEnry convention centre San Jose

I jumped into the field of machine learning 18 months ago. It was overwhelming at first: Where to start, what to read. And the math, the…

As long as I can remember software testing has been subject (and debate) of change. It used to be us testers needing to move left in the…

Some years ago … As a well-known retailer in The Netherlands for decades, wehkamp had already successfully made the transition from a…

For Wehkamp I visited React Europe with my colleague Peter. The conference was held in France just like the previous years, It allowed us…

In 2016 a change started in our company. We wanted to transform ourselves into a flatter organisation. Since we are an e-commerce company…

A while back I was fortunate enough to receive a ticket for TECH020 as VU (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) alumni. I had never heard of this…

Routing with regular expressions… to some the world would be a better place if everyone understood regular expressions. To others the world…

These days you’re hard-pressed to find someone in software development that doesn’t think test automation is a good idea. The general…

At Wehkamp, we are moving our monolithic site into micro frontends. We started with the back end and rebuilt the front end as a single…

Lately we’ve been playing around with ChatOps at Wehkamp. We added a Hubot to our Slack channels to automate some operational jobs. It…

editor’s note: over here a great piece can be found that complements the point I’m trying to make below.