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Why We Ditched Flink Table API Joins: Cutting State by 75% with DataStream Unions

The beauty of a high-level abstraction is that it lets you focus on the "what" rather than the "how." In the world... Read more...

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Maryna Kryvko

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 04

2026

The Day Our Own Queries DoS’ed Us: Inside Zalando Search

Once upon a time, during a normal Sunday, our team ran into an unexpected challenge: an Elasticsearch cluster that... Read more...

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Maryna Kryvko

Senior Software Engineer

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Ivan Potapov

Senior Software Engineer

Dec 17

2025

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