Backend
This category focuses on backend, infrastructure, reliability, and programming languages.
From Monolith to Microservices (Video)
Managing our growing Microservices Ecosystem. Read more...
Feb 10
2016
Zalando’s Patroni: a Template for High Availability PostgreSQL
A customized, high-availability PostgreSQL solution using Python and a distributed configuration store. Read more...
Oleksii Kliukin
Database Engineer
Feb 03
2016
Reactive Design Patterns
A Talk by Typesafe’s Roland Kuhn (Slides) Read more...
Jan 19
2016
Meet Connexion: Our REST Framework for Python
Automagically handle your REST API requests based on Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 Specification files in YAML. Read more...
Jan 11
2016
Accelerating Warehouse Operations with Neural Networks
How we've been using deep neural networks to steer operations at Zalando’s fashion warehouses. Read more...
Calvin Seward
Research Scientist
Dec 15
2015
Video: Reactive RESTful APIs with Akka HTTP and Slick
Why we're building on top of reactive technologies like Akka HTTP and Slick. Read more...
Lauri Apple
Tech Evangelist
Dec 08
2015
Building System Packages from Python Modules (with Dependencies Included)
Learn about the benefits of wrapping Python’s virtualenvs in system packages. Read more...
Dec 07
2015
Video: “Scala Microservices at Zalando”
A Zalando delivery lead describes his team's work with Scala. Read more...
Lauri Apple
Tech Evangelist
Dec 02
2015
Building Our Own Open-Source HTTP Routing Solution
Enabling microservices deployment while decoupling routing from service logic. Read more...
Dec 01
2015
Video: Swagger Creator Mentions Zalando Open Source
Tony Tam talks about our Connexion, our open-source Swagger framework. Read more...
Lauri Apple
Tech Evangelist
Nov 25
2015