Oliver Hemsted

Principal Engineer. I build distributed systems, lead engineering teams, and occasionally have opinions about software.

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Boring on purpose: re‑platforming shop.coop.co.uk without anyone noticing

Before we wrote a line of code, we imagined the day we'd switch it on. We replaced the backend that powers Co-op's Q-Commerce site serving customers from 1500 stores, and nobody noticed.

10 July 202613 min read

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