Zalando Engineering

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I’ve been a product manager on the Zalando mobile apps team since 2013, and for as long as I can remember our customers have been telling us that they derive inspiration for their fashion purchases via Instagram. With more than 300 million active users sharing more than 70 million photos and videos every day, Instagram has become the perfect spot to easily share and discover new outfits and street styles.

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ProjectPro

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Apache Hadoop is synonymous with big data for its cost-effectiveness and its attribute of scalability for processing petabytes of data. Data analysis using hadoop is just half the battle won. Getting data into the Hadoop cluster plays a critical role in any big data deployment. Data ingestion is important in any big data project because the volume of data is generally in petabytes or exabytes.

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Zalando Engineering

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Late last month brought the seventh edition of JSConf.eu , Berlin’s largest JavaScript conference, and my colleague Andrey Kuzmin and I were lucky enough to attend. Aside from offering (always!) great food, the conference also featured an array of interesting talks over two tracks. Here’s what we enjoyed the most: Microsoft Edge Kai Jäger of Microsoft gave an introduction to Microsoft’s most recent — and joyfully anticipated — browser.

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Zalando Engineering

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Update: Due to the extremely positive feedback we received during SLUSH, we want to give more teams the chance to apply for the Zalando Tech Residency Program and are extending the application deadline to Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 at noon CET. All teams who have already applied will hear from us soon. Zalando’s story begins in 2008 with two guys shipping shoes out of their student apartment.

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Speaker: John Mansour

If you're looking to advance your career in product management, there are more options than just climbing the management ladder. Join our upcoming webinar to learn about highly rewarding career paths that don't involve management responsibilities. We'll cover both career tracks and provide tips on how to position yourself for success in the one that's right for you.

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Zalando Engineering

OCTOBER 14, 2015

At Zalando, we store most of our valuable data in PostgreSQL. When we want to access it, we typically use a layer of PostgreSQL functions. With every release, we roll out a new set of functions, neatly organized into versioned API schemas. The application then reads and changes the data by calling the functions of the current API schema. This means we have many functions in our databases — and a relatively large team of developers who write them.

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Zalando Engineering

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Zalando Senior Frontend Engineer Dmitriy Kubyshkin recently visited our new Helsinki tech hub and had some time to head out to the local JavaScript meetup, HelsinkiJS , to share his engineering expertise.

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Zalando Engineering

OCTOBER 15, 2015

One of the largest clusters of engineering teams driving Zalando is our Fashion Store department, which develops and maintains our 15 country-specific, customer-facing websites. The Fashion Store focuses on creating great online experiences for Zalando’s +16 million active customers — developing great features like the catalog and the product detail page.

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