Picnic Engineering Blog
blog.picnic.nl · Company blog · on HN since 2017
Picnic, a Dutch online grocer, publishes engineering posts on its analytics platform, Java stack, data tooling, and developer practices.
What HN saysHN links it mostly through Picnic's job postings in Who's Hiring threads, with a few commenters mentioning its blog as a company engineering blog.
20HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage6 people · first shared 2017
- 2Building an own real-time analytics platform at scale2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3Java meets JavaScript: dynamic page rendering2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 4Cryptocurrency incentivised code reviewing, open sourced2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5Picnic gives all developers a Mac Book with M1 Pro “for shorter build time”1 people · 16 points · first shared 2021 · 10 comments on HN
- 6Releasing an open-source dbt metadata linter: dbt-score1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7RxJava: 5 Steps to Reactive Enlightenment – Picnic Engineering1 people · 3 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 8Why Picnic Picked Java1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 9Data Science as a Product1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 10Building an AI-first company: lessons from scaling a Machine Learning powerhouse1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 11Tech Radar on Event Streaming Platforms – Picnic Engineering1 people · 2 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Rebuilding the Team Spirit with Discord1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 13Picnicking on the Roadside: How to Share the Undone with a Framework of Ideas1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14Machine Learning and Customer Success: Automated Feedback Classification (P. 2)1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15Solving logistics problems using genetic algorithms1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
jsumrall · 2025-07-18
This and Materialize seemed like great tools. I met some of the team of Rising Wave at the Kafka conference last year in London and was impressed by their work. It may be great if you need such a tool.
In the end, I went with ClickHouse and it's materialized views feature. It might not be quite as powerful as what these other tools are doing, but it works for us, and it's really easy to set up. Before we were using Timescale's continuous aggregates, which had good performance, but require some domain knowledge to setup. ClickHouse materialized views are great because you don't need to be an expert to use them. And even so, performance is still very good.
We wrote about it briefly here: https://blog.picnic.nl/building-a-real-time-analytics-platform-for-pic…
ClariceYang · 2021-03-08
Picnic Technologies | Java Developers | Amsterdam/Netherlands | Full-time | ONSITE | https://join.picnic.app
Picnic has become one of the fastest growing online groceries in Europe. Software is helping us lead a grocery revolution. Our entire operation is run in-house: the supply-chain, forecasting, warehouse systems, partnership and fleet strategies. From the backend to the front, we’re pioneering development in e-commerce and urban logistics.
Tech stack: Java 11, Spring5, Reactor, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
For more info please visit:
Java Developer: https://grnh.se/cciamfn41
Staff Engineer (Java): https://grnh.se/3d860abe1us
Medium blog: https://blog.picnic.nl
Feel free to apply or drop an email: [email protected]
quiqueqs · 2017-04-21
We just started a blog a few months ago at our company on a variety of topics such as mobile & BE development, as well as design [1]. Hopefully it's of use to the community :)
I also enjoy the Hacker Noon articles [2]
[1] https://blog.picnic.nl/
[2] https://hackernoon.com/
jankothe · 2024-05-07
Picnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation Picnic
Tech's answer to groceries. Picnic, modern milkman delivering with a smile! At Picnic, we’ve been revolutionizing the way people buy their groceries since 2015 – and we’ve come a long way since then. We provide our rapidly-growing customer base with an affordable and sustainable service through cutting-edge technology, efficient planning, and a fleet of electric vehicles.
We're hiring for a number of roles for our tech, design, and analyst teams. Some of the tech positions: * Discrete Event Simulation Engineer - https://grnh.se/37384dbf1us * Java Tech Lead (Consumer) - https://grnh.se/e27343851us * Java Tech Lead (Warehouse) - https://grnh.se/099d60291us * Senior Machine Learning Engineer - https://grnh.se/3f992fdd1us
For more positions at Picnic, visit https://picnic.app/careers/all-jobs, or visit our tech blog with more information: https://blog.picnic.nl/
Feel free to reach out to [email protected] for more information about the roles and the company!
dariaampilohova · 2023-02-01
Picnic | Netherlands, Amsterdam | Visa sponsorship, relocation | Hybrid
At Picnic, we’re revolutionizing the way people buy groceries with our innovative and sustainable app-only service. If you’re a passionate engineer we’re offering you the opportunity to join the diverse team at our Amsterdam HQ and make a real difference in our scaleup environment.
What makes Picnic so unique? Everything we do, we do in-house, from forecasting to maintaining our first automated warehouse, to new electric vehicles that deliver our groceries.
Our tech stack: Java 17, Spring 5 with Spring Boot 2, Reactor, RabbitMQ, Kinesis, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault
We're hiring for a number of roles for our tech, design, and analyst teams.
Some of the tech positions:
Senior Java Developer - https://grnh.se/e5a8d72a1us
Java Developer - https://grnh.se/cciamfn41
Senior DevOps Engineer - https://grnh.se/7849f2251us
For more positions at Picnic, visit https://picnic.app/careers/all-jobs
For more information visit our Tech blog: https://blog.picnic.nl/
Feel free to reach out to [email protected] for more information about the roles and the company!
SanderMak · 2020-02-03
Picnic Technologies | Software Engineer (Java) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE | Full-time | https://join.picnic.app/job/software-engineer-986403
Picnic is Europe's fastest growing online grocery scale-up. We create the whole experience all the way from our shopping app to delivering the groceries at the door with our own electric vehicles. Picnic is currently active in The Netherlands and Germany, expanding at a fast pace.
In this role, you help building products that support crucial parts of the Picnic experience. This ranges from a custom warehouse management system, to sophisticated planning and routing challenges, to e-commerce building blocks facilitating continuous experimentation. You can also read our blog to get a better feel for what we do: https://blog.picnic.nl
Wondering about our application process? It's fully transparent and described here: https://hiring.picnic.app (if you have suggestions for this process, feel free to create a Pull Request: https://github.com/PicnicSupermarket/hiring-experience).
Our tech stack: Java 11 / Spring (Reactor/WebFlux) / PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Kubernetes / AWS / GitHub
For other development roles, see https://join.picnic.app/team/technology-and-engineering
You can apply through the links above, or shoot an email to [email protected] if there's anything you can't find in the supplied links.