Wehkamp-techblog

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.

At the end of the summer vacation, one of our colleagues brought a post on LinkedIn to our attention. It said: “Highly motivated student is…

Remember Black Friday? iDeal had a hard time keeping up with all those shops throwing transactions at them — both online and offline.

Automated unit tests are the backbone of the testing pyramid. Unit tests enable us to solve bugs using a test driven development strategy…

Last weekend I visited GDG DevFest 2017 at the University of Amsterdam. This conference is the biggest Google related event in The…

On return from summer holiday, our colleagues had a great surprise for us: “You guys are going to San Francisco!” From October 1 through 5…

Today I visited the Firebase Dev Summit in Amsterdam 🇳🇱

For the second time, I was able to attend Droidcon London this year. My goal this year was to learn more and get ideas on software…

At Wehkamp, we’re making good (and heavy) use of metadata. A great way to support our vision of self-describing services, where we store…

Big companies use a lot of HTTP cookies 🍪 to store all the information you need to interact with the application in a proper way. Besides…