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
35stories submitted
69story points
1 year agolast shared
2017people per year2026

Most-shared posts

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    Homepage
    6 people · first shared 2017
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    Building an own real-time analytics platform at scale
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
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    Java meets JavaScript: dynamic page rendering
    2 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
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    Cryptocurrency incentivised code reviewing, open sourced
    2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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    Releasing an open-source dbt metadata linter: dbt-score
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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    Why Picnic Picked Java
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
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    Data Science as a Product
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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    Rebuilding the Team Spirit with Discord
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
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    Solving logistics problems using genetic algorithms
    1 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.

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