Backend
This category focuses on backend, infrastructure, reliability, and programming languages.
Mastering Testing Efficiency in Spring Boot: Optimization Strategies and Best Practices
Unlock the secrets to supercharging your Spring Boot tests! Explore how we utilized specific techniques, resulting... Read more...
Hassan Elseoudy
Software Engineer
Nov 14
2023
Patching the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
Contributing to the PostgreSQL JDBC Driver to address the issue of runaway WAL growth in Logical Replication Read more...
Declan Murphy
Software Engineer
Nov 09
2023
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
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
All you need to know about timeouts
How to set a reasonable timeout for your microservices to achieve maximum performance and resilience. Read more...
Anton Ilinchik
Senior Software Engineer
Vishal Varshney
Engineering Manager
Jul 26
2023
Rendering Engine Tales: Road to Concurrent React
Integrating React's Concurrent features into Zalando's web framework. In this post we go over our solution design,... Read more...
Rene Eichhorn
Software Engineer
Ghasem Bakhtiari
Senior Software Engineer
Jan Brockmeyer
Senior Software Engineer
Jul 11
2023
Riptide HTTP Client tutorial
Riptide: learning the fundamentals of the open source Zalando HTTP client Read more...
Olga Semernitskaia
Engineering Lead
Jun 29
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
Operation-Based SLOs
Zalando developed a new type of SLOs to monitor the critical aspects of its business which is based on Operations.... Read more...
Pedro Alves
Principal Software Engineer
Apr 28
2022