Areas Summit 2019 - Half II

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Three years in the past, a gaggle of enthusiastic engineers gathered collectively through the Friday drinks. They wished to work together extra within the rising group. Be taught extra from one another by sharing cool tales. The plan for a bol.com tech summit was born, they have known as its Areas Summit.  

Three years later, the third version in succession is organized by a devoted workforce of dedicated engineers. It’s the 13th of June and the Tech lab Podcast workforce is on the Areas Summit 2019 location to offer you an impression of the Areas Summit.  

In the earlier episode of the podcast we interviewed one of many committee members to let you know the What, Why and Who and had small interviews with a number of the presenters. 

Partially II of the area's summit, we interview three presenters to offer you an impression and to share the important thing takeaways with you. To add to the impression, we share quotes from the viewers with you.  

Please bear with us, we set–up our cellular studio tools one of the best we might, however as we have been at this nice location, you may hear some background noise and disturbance.  

Comfortable Listening and tell us what you assume, mailto: techlab@bol.com 

Company 

Leon van Tegelen; Tech Neighborhood Director in bol.com 

Remco Overdijk; Professional Techniques Engineer – offered “Surviving the Kubernetes jungle” 

Ramona de Wit van Ark; Take a look at lead Albert Heijn – Digital Growth and founding father of  Stichting Kalyani – offered “Testing, anybody can do it, proper?” 

Roy Triesscheijn; Software program Engineer at bol.com – offered “The Magic of real-time rendering in video games” 

Simonas Narbutas; System Engineer at bol.com – offered “Connecting your espresso desk to wifi” 

Hosts 

Peter Brouwers 

Peter Paul van de Beek 

Present notes 

Remco touched upon gadgets within the Kubernetes area. Consider the containers' orchestration supervisor. He additionally defined what we carried out inside bol.com to ship the constructions across the platform. We name this R2D2. (stream from 57 minutes) 

Ramona talked concerning the three key values inside Albert Heijn they have for testing: 

1. Group effort
2. Investigation over validation
3. At all times give suggestions 

We dive into the distinction between the specific versus tacit issues, and even the Burman and Burman sequence is mentioned. She makes use of this in her presentation to elucidate the way in which a mini agile workforce works. As a founding father of the Stichting Kalyani she additionally explains what learnings she makes use of from that atmosphere in her each day observe. 

Roy takes us with him on his journey to elucidate the way in which video games cope with the rendering features. He made a fantastic comparability throughout his presentation between the comparatively easy atmosphere of bol.com (solely textual content and pictures) by which it generally takes up to 1 second to render the web page versus the sport business the place rendering ought to solely take 0.167 seconds on the max. 
One other facet he’s touching upon is the distinction in fixing points.  

Simon as talked about his interest. He created an infinite desk from a regular IKEA espresso desk and related it to his SMART residence set up. As a result of he introduced the precise desk, we requested him briefly how his speak went.