Sat.Feb 18, 2017 - Fri.Feb 24, 2017

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How the Zalando iOS App Abandoned CocoaPods and Reduced Build Time

Zalando Engineering

Dependency management doesn’t have to be complicated. The current dependency managers for iOS are CocoaPods , which is the de facto standard tool, Carthage , and Swift Package Manager. Despite the range of automated solutions, we found at Zalando that manual management brings about better performance and doesn’t require much maintenance in a big, modular project.

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Dress Code: An In-house Style Guide for Zalando’s Solution Center

Zalando Engineering

Saying the design team in Zalando has grown in the last few years would be an understatement: it has exploded, jumping from around 10 to over 40 designers in an 18-month period. With this comes many challenges, one of which is making sure our interfaces stay coherent and cohesive, no matter who designed or coded it. Dress Code is a pattern library and style guide created by the Brand Solutions Central Services team to address these issues in the scope of Zalando’s Solution Center – a central rep

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