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With the growth of our engineering community, the need for more focus on engineering productivity is clear. We invited two experts to discuss this topic with us. We chose Backstage. Backstage is a platform for developer portals that is used as an app store for tools for software engineers. This product was built inside Spotify and later on open-sourced by them.

We use GraphQL for specific use cases. To find out more about these cases and the use of GraphQL at bol.com listen to https://techlab.bol.com/graphql-start-but-start-small/

We are moving more and more to TypeScript. Find out in this podcast episode how we are handling migrations to TypeScript.

Check our Kotlin adoption journey in this podcast. It had an interesting start that shows how we adopt technology in general. In different feature teams, a group of software engineers explored their own use cases for Kotlin. Some very enthusiastic, some a bit more skeptical a and eventually they found each other.