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Picnic 10 years: 2024 — Building a modular warehouse

Picnic 10 years: 2024 — Building a modular warehouse

Growing the next generation of leadership

Picnic 10 years: 2022 — Building a Store Platform to Scale Beyond a Million Customers

Automating the Pick: How Picnic is Integrating Robots in Their Order-Picking Process

Breaking a Supply Chain Monolith — A Learning Journey on the Ship of Theseus

From Fragile to Flexible: Rebuilding Our Slotting Brain from Scratch

Picnic 10 Years: 2021 — Expanding into France, and beyond

Picnic 10 years: 2020 — Sudo pick me a sandwich

Adding Eyes to Picnic’s Automated Warehouses

Building an AI-first company: lessons from scaling from a small start-up to a Machine Learning…

Building a Real-time Analytics Platform for Picnic

Picnic 10 years: 2018 — Hello, Germany

Adding Write Functionality to Pages with Self-Service APIs

Solving the weekly menu puzzle pt.2: recommendations at Picnic

Beyond Static Pages: bringing UI to life

A decade of scaling (real-time) analytics and master data at Picnic

Refaster & OpenRewrite: Better Together

Experiences of a first year Java developer at Picnic

Picnic 10 years: 2016 — The Milkman Routes

Java Meets JavaScript: A Modern Approach to Dynamic Page Rendering

10 Lessons from 10 Years of Innovation and Engineering at Picnic

Tackling Configuration: creating Lego-Like Flexibility for non developers

Picnic’s Page Platform from a Mobile perspective: enabling fast updates through server-driven UI

Bridging the gap: A future-proof approach to identifier migration in complex systems

Enabling rapid business use case iteration with Apache Calcite

Define, Extract and Transform inside Picnic’s Page Platform

Spreading Holiday Cheer at Picnic

Developing a Java plugin that automatically fixes code

Faster Features, Happier Customers: Introducing The Platform That Transformed Our Grocery App

Solving the most complex task of grocery shopping — meal planning

Hill-climbing towards good plannings with TimeFold

How tech-driven workforce planning brings better-balanced outcomes for everyone

Applying continuous integration to infrastructure @ Picnic

Relocating for a new life in the Netherlands with Picnic

The Hidden Complexity of Online Supermarket Payments

Leading the Way: A journey from the first delivery driver on the road

Improving Maven build times

Harnessing the power of meaningful conversations: Picnic x Workleap Officevibe

Cultivating change - Picnic&#8217;s Food Forest

Automating large-scale refactorings with Error Prone

Open-sourcing dbt-score: lint model metadata with ease!

Driving change: how the supermarket on wheels reduces environmental impact

How we broke customer support language barriers without breaking production

Mental well-being for all &#8211; how we OpenUp

Enhancing Search Retrieval with Large Language Models (LLMs)

Under the hood of Picnic&#8217;s demand forecasting model: A Deep Dive into the Temporal Fusion Transformer

YAML developers and the declarative data platforms

Python @ Picnic

How Picnic uses Slack to revolutionise the world of online groceries

From Cloud-native to Hybrid and back again: Picnic’s on-premises computing journey

Solving the weekly menu puzzle: recommendations at Picnic

Generating your shopping list with AI: recommendations at Picnic

2023 in a nutshell —ride along!

Running demand forecasting machine learning models at scale

Meet the Trainers of Picnic's Tech Academy

Picnic’s migration to Datadog Pavel Storozhenko

The Art of Master Data Management at Picnic

Creating an Engaging Security Awareness Program

The tech team behind the most customer-friendly supermarket

Using Transformers to Cut Waste and Put Smiles on Our Customers Faces!

Adding Automatic Logout to Angular Applications

Why Using GPT May Not Be the Best Option for Customer Feedback Classification

Using Change Data Capture for Warehouse Analytics

How to find dead code in your Java services

The Journey to Product Ownership

Replicating a multi-million Euro automated warehouse in Python

How we built the supply chain Matrix

How we got robots to do your groceries

Deploying Data Pipelines using the Saga pattern

Bye Travis CI, hi TeamCity!

Making our apps festive with Christmas decorations

Why Picnic picked Java

Transitioning from aiohttp to FastAPI

Picnic Open-sources Error Prone Support

Picnic loves Error Prone: producing high-quality and consistent Java code

MLOps Principles to build Picnic’s Data Science Platform

Internal services pipeline in Analytics Platform

Q&amp;A Picnic Data Engineering Series

Cultivating change - Picnic’s Food Forest

Mental well-being for all – how we OpenUp

Under the hood of Picnic’s demand forecasting model: A Deep Dive into the Temporal Fusion Transformer

Q&A Picnic Data Engineering Series

Picnic’s Service Coach: Building Data-Driven Tech to Enhance the Delivery Experience