From Event-Driven Chaos to a Blazingly Fast Serving API
In this post, we explain how we replaced an event-driven system with a high performance API capable of serving... Read more...
Conor Gallagher
Senior Principal Engineer
Giorgio Carta
Head of Engineering
Mar 07
2025
Enhancing the Mock Server: A User Interface Approach
A summary of our experience using a mock server library in our frontend React application and how we leveraged a... Read more...
Carlos Tan
Software Engineer
Apr 25
2024
Understanding GraphQL Directives: Practical Use-Cases at Zalando
In this blog post, we dive into the practical applications of GraphQL directives at Zalando. With simple examples,... Read more...
Boopathi Rajaa Nedunchezhiyan
Principal Engineer
Oct 19
2023
GraphQL persisted queries and Schema stability
Learn how Zalando uses persisted queries, and how we define and think about different levels of stability of our... Read more...
Boopathi Rajaa Nedunchezhiyan
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 17
2022
How we use GraphQL at Europe's largest fashion e-commerce company
Managing consistent and backwards-compatible APIs for Web and mobile App frontends is always a complex task in the... Read more...
Aditya Pratap Singh
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 04
2021
Developing Zalando APIs
How Zalando software engineers develop internal and external APIs Read more...
Maxim Tschumak
Software Engineer
Dr. Thomas Frauenstein
Senior Architect, Technology Engineering
Apr 04
2019
Improving Efficiency in Offline Campaigns
How Zalando uses an API to drive marketing profitability Read more...
Apr 24
2018
In Praise of TypeScript
Insights on making NodeJS APIs great Read more...
Dmytro Zharkov
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 22
2018
Five Minutes from Machine Learning to RESTful API
The benefits of Connexion: Zalando’s open source API-First framework Read more...
Elvin Valiev
Software Engineer
Feb 15
2018
Real-time Ranking with Apache Kafka’s Streams API
Using Apache and the Kafka Streams API with Scala on AWS for real-time fashion insights Read more...
Hunter Kelly
Software Engineer
Nov 23
2017