Wehkamp-techblog

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…

Decorators allow you to wrap your python functions in a so called decorator to get extra functionality for free. Let’s find out how!

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…

At Wehkamp we wanted to collect and visualize the performance of our website. Of course there are third party tools that can offer you…

All while maintaining auto-incrementing IDs

And making sure of that can be quite simple.

At Wehkamp we use Apache Kafka in our event driven service architecture. It handles high loads of messages really well. We use Apache…

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…

At Wehkamp we have a pretty nice, fast and optimized process in place for getting our code easily and automated to development and…

I like to validate my application configuration upon startup. Especially when doing local development, I want to know which application…

7 free & online tools to boost prototyping productivity

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.

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…