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Picnic – The technologists behind sustainable delivery | Enginears Podcast

March 15, 2023 Enginears Season 1 Episode 70
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Picnic – The technologists behind sustainable delivery | Enginears Podcast
Show Notes

A follow on from our podcast with Picnic in 2020 discussing robotizing a warehouse and how they have scaled up to 100k orders and 1M items to choose from since their release of their automated warehouse in 2022.

- How Picnic have modernised their tech stack - the trade-offs with updating technology vs. sticking with what you’ve got?

- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/ - It aims to improve code quality, focussing on maintainability, consistency and avoidance of common pitfalls.

- €600M investment from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and how this supercharges Picnic’s growth.

- Building and launching a technology academy and integrating people into team’s with mentorship.

- Our open tech roles: https://picnic.app/careers/teams/technology-and-engineering
- Engineering blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/
- Error Prone Support open-source project: https://error-prone.picnic.tech/

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