Hosting an internal Engineering Conference
In August 2023 we hosted our first internal Engineering Conference. This post summarizes the experience and provides... Read more...
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...
Bartosz Ocytko
Executive Principal Engineer
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...
Lacey Nagel
Senior Product Manager
Arthur Reis Puthin
Engineering Manager
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bartosz Ocytko
Executive Principal Engineer
Jul 15
2020