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How Picnic uses Slack to revolutionise the world of online groceries
How Picnic uses Slack to revolutionise the world of online groceries
Our focus on making online grocery shopping simple, fun, and affordable has propelled us to become the fastest-growing online supermarket…
Pepijn van Aken
Feb 20
From Cloud-native to Hybrid and back again
From Cloud-native to Hybrid and back again
Picnic’s on-premises computing journey
Tyko Kieskamp
Feb 6
Picnic’s review of 2023: the year of AI
Picnic’s review of 2023: the year of AI
As we step into 2024, let’s look back at the transformative year of 2023, which has been a milestone for machine learning and AI.
Jelmer Borst
Jan 30
Solving the weekly menu puzzle: recommendations at Picnic
Solving the weekly menu puzzle: recommendations at Picnic
Learnings from building a recipe recommendation system from scratch.
Giorgia Tandoi
Jan 16
Generating your shopping list with AI: recommendations at Picnic
Generating your shopping list with AI: recommendations at Picnic
How we find the best items for our customers.
Thijs Sluijter
Jan 9
2023 in a nutshell —ride along!
2023 in a nutshell —ride along!
With operations in full swing to pull us through the busiest time of the year, the code slush we apply in some of our teams allow us to…
Paulo Geusau
Dec 19, 2023
Running demand forecasting machine learning models at scale
Running demand forecasting machine learning models at scale
Learnings from running state of the art demand forecasting at scale.
Maarten Sukel
Dec 12, 2023
Meet the Trainers of Picnic’s Tech Academy
Meet the Trainers of Picnic’s Tech Academy
Picnic’s Tech Academy plays a pivotal role in upskilling our tech team. We’ve previously written about how the Academy’s Java Learning path…
Sander Mak
Nov 13, 2023
Picnic’s migration to Datadog
Picnic’s migration to Datadog
Picnic’s migration to Datadog
Pavel Storozhenko
Oct 30, 2023
The Art of Master Data Management at Picnic
The Art of Master Data Management at Picnic
Building the data foundation for world’s best online supermarket
Hidde Schwietert
Oct 16, 2023
Creating an Engaging Security Awareness Program
Creating an Engaging Security Awareness Program
In today’s digital world, businesses are increasingly dependent on technology, making them vulnerable to cyberattacks. According to a…
Ali Abdollahi
Sep 26, 2023
Using Transformers to Cut Waste and Put Smiles on Our Customers’ Faces!
Using Transformers to Cut Waste and Put Smiles on Our Customers’ Faces!
How we teach transformers to distinguish between products like a potato and a banana, thereby enhancing future demand predictictions.
Maarten Sukel
Jul 24, 2023
The tech team behind the most customer-friendly supermarket
The tech team behind the most customer-friendly supermarket
At Picnic, we dream of being the best milkman on earth. While we believe we still have a long way to go, we’re definitely on our way…
Ilonka Cornelissen
Jul 10, 2023
Adding Automatic Logout to Angular Applications
Adding Automatic Logout to Angular Applications
At Picnic we have a clear goal: make the online supermarket of tomorrow available today. In our journey to change the way people do their…
Luis Enrique Acedo Herrera
Jun 26, 2023
Why Using GPT May Not Be the Best Option for Customer Feedback Classification
Why Using GPT May Not Be the Best Option for Customer Feedback Classification
How we explore and benchmark new technologies for customer feedback classification.
Maarten Sukel
May 23, 2023
Using Change Data Capture for Warehouse Analytics
Using Change Data Capture for Warehouse Analytics
How we track the the journey of your groceries.
David Mischke
Mar 28, 2023
How to find dead code in your Java services
How to find dead code in your Java services
When building solutions, the code we write can last many years. While casually browsing legacy code we might wonder; is this still used?
Pieter Dirk Soels
Mar 21, 2023
The Journey to Product Ownership
The Journey to Product Ownership
Here at Picnic, we have more than 30 teams that are building the cool products that we love. But while the product teams build the future —…
Jarmila Kaiser
Mar 15, 2023
Replicating a multi-million Euro automated warehouse in Python
Replicating a multi-million Euro automated warehouse in Python
Or: how we took our fulfillment center and put it in a box!
Dylan Goldsborough
Mar 13, 2023
How we built the supply chain Matrix
How we built the supply chain Matrix
The story of building an automated warehouse without having one — Part II
Manuel Lombardero
Mar 6, 2023
How we got robots to do your groceries
How we got robots to do your groceries
The story of building an automated warehouse without having one — Part I
Manuel Lombardero
Feb 21, 2023
Deploying Data Pipelines using the Saga pattern
Deploying Data Pipelines using the Saga pattern
Delivering the right events at low latency and with a high volume is critical to Picnic’s system architecture. In our previous blog, Dima…
Shibi Ramachandran
Feb 8, 2023
Bye Travis CI, hi TeamCity!
Bye Travis CI, hi TeamCity!
A story of how we migrated to a new CI, standardized the pipelines, reduced build/queue time, and took control of the build agents.
Ivan Babiankou
Feb 1, 2023
Making our apps festive with Christmas decorations
Making our apps festive with Christmas decorations
Do you like the holiday season? At Picnic we love it! It is a time for family, Christmas trees, lights, decorations and of course fantastic…
Tyko Kieskamp
Dec 20, 2022
Why Picnic picked Java
Why Picnic picked Java
Picking a tech stack for your startup isn’t something to do lightly. It’s a choice that will shape the future in many ways: how will the…
Sander Mak
Dec 19, 2022
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