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Spreading Holiday Cheer at Picnic
Written by Pepijn van Aken
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Bridging the gap: A future-proof approach to identifier migration in complex systems
Written by Dima Legeza
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Micrometer and the Modern Observability Stack
Written by Philip Leonard
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Leveraging domain sponsorship to organize product teams at scale
Written by Jakob Löhnertz
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Company-wide Spring 5 migration head on
Written by Nathan Kooij
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Bringing knowledge to the lunch table
Written by Robert Carosi
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Picnic ❤️ Open-source (2020 update)
Written by Arturs Drozdovs
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Making the Best Warehouse Management System One Flow at a Time
Written by Csaba Juhász
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Optimal drop times using machine learning
Written by Tom Steenbergen
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(Consistent) App Analytics with Snowplow
Written by Dimitar Nedev
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Hitchhiker’s Guide to HashiCorp Vault in Kubernetes Part 1: System integration
Written by Anh Đạt
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Localizing native apps made easy with Localicious!
Written by Lars Lockefeer
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Incident Management at Picnic
Written by Steven van de Ridder
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Cryptocurrency Incentivised Code Reviewing, Open Sourced.
Written by Philip Leonard
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Programming a Safer Drive
Written by Ernir Þorsteinsson
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Scaling Picnic systems in Corona times
Written by Sander Mak
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Monitoring and Observability at Picnic
Written by Philip Leonard
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Perks post 1
Written by Lars
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Behavior driven UI test automation with Selenium
Written by Simeon van der Steen
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Computational Logistics at Picnic
Written by Regan Koopmans
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Picnic plays it cool: a data-driven cold chain for groceries
Written by Floris Boekema
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Data Science As a Product
Written by Tad Slaff
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A Microservice Success Story
Written by Ernir Þorsteinsson
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Picnic’s Lakeless Data Warehouse
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Data Engineer’s Role in the Future of Groceries
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Staying Ahead Of The Competition With Executable Specifications
Written by Simeon van der Steen
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It’s in our DNA: Solving logistics problems using Genetic Algorithms
Written by Geert Konijnendijk
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Remote onboarding at Picnic
Written by Willem Evers
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Brownfield React Native development at Picnic
Written by Lucas Twisk
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Rebuilding the team spirit with Discord
Written by Jakob Löhnertz
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Code in Unix while using Windows
Written by Seleme Topuz
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Reinventing the QA process
Written by Julia Zarechneva
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Data vault: new weaponry in your data science toolkit
Written by Bas Vlaming
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Tracking events inside React(-Native) applications using HOCs
Written by Elias el Khaldi
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Building a distributed ETL pipeline for a monolithic data warehouse
Written by Matthieu Caneill
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Payments @ Picnic
Written by Jelmer Borst
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How we built our Lakeless Data Warehouse
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Building a Scalable Caching Platform
Written by Dylan Goldsborough
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Picnic Tech Radars
Written by Philip Leonard
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Becoming a multiplier: on our Java developer platform
Written by Nathan Kooij
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Accelerating Developer Growth with the Picnic Tech Academy
Written by Phil Werli
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Scaling Business Intelligence with Python and Snowflake
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Why you should make leaders of your team
Written by Katherin Schuppener
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Quest to the OS: Java Native Memory
Written by Geert Konijnendijk
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Picnic’s data archiving strategy in Salesforce
Written by Gonçalo Moreira
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The Milkman Van of the 21st Century
Written by Joris Wolters
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Using State Machines in Front-End Development
Written by Danielle Richter
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Embracing Java 17: Here’s What We Learned
Written by Sander Mak
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Picnic’s Service Coach: Building Data-Driven Tech to Enhance the Delivery Experience
Written by Richard van der Byl
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Tech Radar on Event Streaming Platforms
Written by Dima Kalashnikov
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Scaling Cyber Security Awareness
Written by Nuray Akdemir
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M1 Pro MacBooks: Building a Tech Foundation
Written by Philip Leonard
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Spreading Christmas Cheer at Picnic: Decorating Our Apps During the Holiday Season
Written by Simon Baars
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Picnic Analytics Platform: Migration from AWS Kinesis to Confluent Cloud
Written by Dima Kalashnikov
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Getting People to Love Queues With Java, Python, and JavaScript
Written by Anastasiia Nykolaichuk
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Supporting Developers’ Growth With Salesforce Certifications
Written by Bhushan Puri
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ETags: Saving Bandwidth 1Kb at a Time
Written by Joao Nogueira
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7 Antifragile Principles for a Successful Data Warehouse
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Vendor Selection: From Tech Radar to Tech Stack
Written by Tyko Kieskamp
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Introducing the Picnic Sneakernet
Written by Matthieu Caneill
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Creating a Rule Engine for Real-Time Action Automation
Written by Frans Bookholt
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A Snapshot of Our Tech Recruitment Team
Written by Ryan Whitmore
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Turning Shadow IT Into Sunshine IT
Written by Max van Rest
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Making it All Work: Picnic’s QA Engineers
Written by Ryan Whitmore
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Shaping a Full-Fledge Procedure by Streaming Salesforce Exception Emails
Written by nyrandonenoboud
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Picnic’s Tech Academy Through the Eyes of Recent Graduates
Written by Ryan Whitmore
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Adopting SFDX for Salesforce Deployments
Written by Bhushan Puri
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Q&A Picnic Data Engineering Series
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Internal services pipeline in Analytics Platform
Written by Dima Kalashnikov
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MLOps Principles to build Picnic’s Data Science Platform
Written by Tom Steenbergen
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Picnic loves Error Prone: producing high-quality and consistent Java code
Written by Rick Ossendrijver
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Picnic Open-sources Error Prone Support
Written by Sander Mak
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Transitioning from aiohttp to FastAPI
Written by Dylan Goldsborough
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Why Picnic picked Java
Written by Sander Mak
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Making our apps festive with Christmas decorations
Written by Tyko Kieskamp
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Bye Travis CI, hi TeamCity!
Written by Ivan Babiankou
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Deploying Data Pipelines using the Saga pattern
Written by Shibi Ramachandran
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How we got robots to do your groceries
Written by Manuel Lombardero
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How we built the supply chain Matrix
Written by Manuel Lombardero
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Replicating a multi-million Euro automated warehouse in Python
Written by Dylan Goldsborough
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The Journey to Product Ownership
Written by Jarmila Kaiser
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How to find dead code in your Java services
Written by Pieter Dirk Soels
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Using Change Data Capture for Warehouse Analytics
Written by David Mischke
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Why Using GPT May Not Be the Best Option for Customer Feedback Classification
Written by Maarten Sukel
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Adding Automatic Logout to Angular Applications
Written by Luis Enrique Acedo Herrera
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Using Transformers to Cut Waste and Put Smiles on Our Customers’ Faces!
Written by Maarten Sukel
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The tech team behind the most customer-friendly supermarket
Written by Ilonka Cornelissen
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Creating an Engaging Security Awareness Program
Written by Ali Abdollahi
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The Art of Master Data Management at Picnic
Written by Hidde Schwietert
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Picnic’s migration to Datadog Pavel Storozhenko
Written by PavelStorozhenko and HarkeetBajaj
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Meet the Trainers of Picnic’s Tech Academy
Written by Sander Mak
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Running demand forecasting machine learning models at scale
Written by Maarten Sukel
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2023 in a nutshell —ride along!
Written by Paulo Geusau
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Generating your shopping list with AI: recommendations at Picnic
Written by Thijs Sluijter
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Solving the weekly menu puzzle: recommendations at Picnic
Written by Giorga Tandoi
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From Cloud-native to Hybrid and back again: Picnic’s on-premises computing journey
Written by Tyko Kieskamp
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How Picnic uses Slack to revolutionise the world of online groceries
Written by Pepijn van Aken
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Python @ Picnic
Written by Sven Arends
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YAML developers and the declarative data platforms
Written by Matthieu Caneill
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Enhancing Search Retrieval with Large Language Models (LLMs)
Written by Maarten Sukel
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Mental well-being for all – how we OpenUp
Written by Lezaan Schoenmakers
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How we broke customer support language barriers without breaking production
Written by Carlos Arcenas
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Driving change: how the supermarket on wheels reduces environmental impact
Written by Anna Krotova
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Open-sourcing dbt-score: lint model metadata with ease!
Written by Jochem Mathijs van Dooren
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Automating large-scale refactorings with Error Prone
Written by Rick Ossendrijver
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Cultivating change - Picnic's Food Forest
Written by Sofia Cassuti
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Harnessing the power of meaningful conversations: Picnic x Workleap Officevibe
Written by stefanievanvelthoven
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Improving Maven build times
Written by Oksana Evseeva
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Leading the Way: A journey from the first delivery driver on the road
Written by Jeroen Boumeester
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The Hidden Complexity of Online Supermarket Payments
Written by Stan Hennekes
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Relocating for a new life in the Netherlands with Picnic
Written by Abhilash Narayana
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Applying continuous integration to infrastructure @ Picnic
Written by Saul Ivan Rivas Vega
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How tech-driven workforce planning brings better-balanced outcomes for everyone
Written by Toon Borren
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Hill-climbing towards good plannings with TimeFold
Written by Daan Goslinga
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Faster Features, Happier Customers: Introducing The Platform That Transformed Our Grocery App
Written by Lars Lockefeer
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Developing a Java plugin that automatically fixes code
Written by Rick Ossendrijver
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Define, Extract and Transform inside Picnic’s Page Platform
Written by Phil Werli
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Enabling rapid business use case iteration with Apache Calcite
Written by Danylo Naumenko
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Tackling Configuration: creating Lego-Like Flexibility for non developers
Written by Joachim van Schothorst
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Java Meets JavaScript: A Modern Approach to Dynamic Page Rendering
Written by João Nogueira
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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Innovation and Engineering at Picnic
Written by Daniel Gebler
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Perks post 2
Written by Lars
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Leveraging domain sponsorship to organize product teams at scale
Written by Jakob Löhnertz
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Under the hood of Picnic's demand forecasting model: A Deep Dive into the Temporal Fusion Transformer
Written by Daniela Solis
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Solving the most complex task of grocery shopping — meal planning
Written by Leslie Man
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Picnic’s Page Platform from a Mobile perspective: enabling fast updates through server-driven UI
Written by Lucas Twisk
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Picnic 10 years: 2016 — The Milkman Routes
Written by Joris van Tatenhove
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Experiences of a first year Java developer at Picnic
Written by Matteo Šimić
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A decade of scaling (real-time) analytics and master data at Picnic
Written by Iliana Iankoulova
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Beyond Static Pages: bringing UI to life
Written by Florencia Bosch
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Solving the weekly menu puzzle pt.2: recommendations at Picnic
Written by Giorgia Tandoi
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Adding Write Functionality to Pages with Self-Service APIs
Written by Kirill Voloshin
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Picnic 10 years: 2018 — Hello, Germany
Written by Marc Marschner
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Building a Real-time Analytics Platform for Picnic
Written by David Mischke

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