Open Source
This category focuses on our open source software and community contributions.
Scaling Beyond Limits: Harnessing Route Server for a Stable Cluster
A proxy server contributing to a stable Kubernetes cluster and scaling ingress controller. Read more...
Mustafa Abdelrahman
Software Engineer
Feb 17
2025
Introducing Lightstep Receiver for OpenTelemetry Collector
OpenTelemetry Lightstep Receiver helps you ingest traces generated by legacy Lightstep tracers in a simple way. Read more...
Konstantin Zhukov
Senior Software Engineer
Jan 21
2025
Open Policy Agent in Skipper Ingress
Zalando has integrated Open Policy Agent (OPA) into Skipper, our open-source Ingress controller, to provide... Read more...
Magnus Jungsbluth
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Sandor Szücs
Principal Software Engineer
Dec 06
2024
12 Golden Signals To Discover Anomalies And Performance Issues on Your AWS RDS Fleet
Automate anomaly detection for AWS RDS at scale. Read more...
Dmitry Kolesnikov
Senior Principal Engineer
Feb 20
2024
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
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
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
Releasing Connexion to the Community
After 6 years and 3.9k GitHub stars, we are releasing Connexion, our API-first Python framework, to the Open Source... Read more...
Henning Jacobs
Executive Principal Engineer
Feb 07
2022
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