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Hosting an internal Engineering Conference

In August 2023 we hosted our first internal Engineering Conference. This post summarizes the experience and provides... Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Jun 03

2024

Tale of 'metadpata': the revenge of the supertools

One day in November 2022, we brought down our shop with a single character. This post recaps on the lessons we... Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

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Diego Roccia

Engineering Manager

Jan 23

2024

Sunrise: Zalando's developer platform based on Backstage

Lessons learned from adopting Backstage as Developer Platform at Zalando. Read more...

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Lacey Nagel

Senior Product Manager

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Arthur Reis Puthin

Engineering Manager

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Aug 03

2023

How Software Bill of Materials change the dependency game

In this post, we explain what questions and insights Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) provide across thousands of... Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Apr 13

2023

How we manage our 1200 incident playbooks

We consolidated our incident playbooks in September 2019. 1200 playbooks later... Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Jan 31

2023

Principal Engineering at Zalando

Learn how we leverage Principal Engineers to solve engineering challenges across Zalando. Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Feb 10

2022

Zalando Tech Radar - Scaling Contributions to Technology Selection

Learn how we scaled contributions to Zalando Tech Radar Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Jun 24

2021

How Zalando prepares for Cyber Week

Learn how we prepare our platform for Cyber Week - the highest traffic period in the year. Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Oct 08

2020

Technology Choices at Zalando - Updating our Tech Radar Process

We have revisited the process of technology selection at Zalando, adjusted the Tech Radar ring semantics, and moved... Read more...

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Bartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

Jul 15

2020

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