Backend
This category focuses on backend, infrastructure, reliability, and programming languages.
Experimentation Platform at Zalando: Part 1 - Evolution
Challenges and solutions of our experimentation platform at Zalando Read more...
Shan Huang
Applied Scientist
Jan 12
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
Launching the Engineering Blog
We recently re-launched Zalando's Engineering Blog. Learn how we have set up a blog with a Lighthouse score of 100. Read more...
Henning Jacobs
Senior Principal Engineer
Jul 01
2020
PgBouncer on Kubernetes and how to achieve minimal latency
Experiments with connection poolers on Kubernetes for Postgres Operator Read more...
Dmitrii Dolgov
Software Engineer
Jun 24
2020
Learnings from Distributed XGBoost on Amazon SageMaker
What I learned from distributed training with XGBoost on Amazon SageMaker. Read more...
Scott Joseph Small
Machine Learning Engineer
Jun 22
2020
Open Source: June Updates - New releases, continue to foster diversity and inclusion in tech
This is a recap of open source activities and development at Zalando in the month of June. Read more...
Hong Phuc Dang
InnerSource Manager
Jul 15
2019
How we release open source projects
Zalando has over 200 open source projects on Github, with about two new proposed projects a month. Over the years... Read more...
Per Ploug
Open Source Community Manager
May 27
2019
Understanding Redis Background Memory Usage
A closer look at how the Linux kernel influences Redis memory management Read more...
Tiago Ilieve
DevOps Engineer
May 16
2019
Back-Pressure Strategy for a Sharded Akka Cluster
AWS SQS polling from sharded Akka Cluster running on Kubernetes Read more...
Rohit Sharma
Software Engineer
May 09
2019
How to Manage Stakeholder Requests in Big Organizations
Explaining our Facilitator Role Read more...
Bohdan Feniak
Software Engineer
May 03
2019