Zalando Engineering
MAY 16, 2017
Here at Zalando Tech, hacking has a long tradition and it’s not merely limited to writing lines of code. Back in the day, when there were no blinds to protect our screens from the reflection of the sun, staff covered the office windows with paper bags. This pragmatism is what makes working at Zalando unique. With our first Hack Night in Hamburg, a similar approach could be felt.
ProjectPro
MAY 2, 2017
News on Hadoop-April 2017 AI Will Eclipse Hadoop, Says Forrester, So Cloudera Files For IPO As A Machine Learning Platform. Forbes.com, April 3, 2017. Apache Hadoop was one of the revolutionary technology in the big data space but now it is buried deep by Deep Learning. According to Forrester Research report, declared in March 2017, artificial intelligence will eclipse hadoop.
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Zalando Engineering
MAY 29, 2017
Years of project management has taught me that one of the keys to a project’s success is managing stakeholder expectations. The only medium we have to influence expectations is effective communication. Autonomy allows teams to open up their creativity and solve hard problems by being self-organized. It expects an extraordinary degree of commitment but also an important sense of accountability, which often puts teams under pressure that are asked to provide forecasting on their work.
Zalando Engineering
MAY 25, 2017
The Zalando Dublin Technology Hub formed in 2015 in part to research and develop products and services using data science. There’s ongoing collaboration with our colleagues in Germany and Finland - recently, over twenty data science researchers and engineers from Dublin attended a two-day internal conference in Berlin. They presented on topics ranging from multi-lingual analysis of fashion content, image tagging with TensorFlow , to infrastructure for model hierarchies.
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Zalando Engineering
MAY 9, 2017
Scrollable sets of items are one of the main UI elements of every app. Quite often a business wants to know if a user has viewed and perceived a specific item. From here, we need to figure out if a user spent enough time in order to accept the content. Let’s find an Android solution using RecyclerView and RxJava. Why and what? Our team met with the following requirement: identify which item of the RecyclerView list was viewed and perceived by the user.
Zalando Engineering
MAY 7, 2017
There are certain things that simply shouldn’t go together. Yet, miraculously, they do: Think about peanut butter and jelly, Stan and Laurel or more on topic, fashion and tech. Both of these departments are part of what make up Zalando’s DNA and are essential to our daily work. Both also have clear opinions of the other, which make a collaboration between the two not the most seamless of tasks.
Zalando Engineering
MAY 15, 2017
In the Fall of 2016, five senior software engineers found themselves in cold water. Not only was the freezing Finnish winter approaching fast, but the whole vision for their team was about to raise chills: revolutionize the whole personalization approach for customers shopping on Zalando. The bar was set high. The user stories were endless. The key metrics set for product evaluation bewildered even the most analytically minded developer.
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