Sat.Jun 04, 2016 - Fri.Jun 10, 2016

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Pushing the boundaries: Human interaction with technology

Zalando Engineering

A couple of weeks ago I attended JSConf 2016 in Budapest. This was a two day conference about JavaScript where speakers from all over the world came to share their passion, ideas, and recent projects with the broader tech community. Zalando had a booth set up at the conference, on top of being represented by Princiya Marina Sequeira , who spoke on ‘Natural User Interfaces using JavaScript’.

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Why should your kid code?

Zalando Engineering

Learning how to use technology and learning how it works are two very different, yet critical, educational issues. It’s safe to say that today’s kids are using the latest smartphones, tablets, and laptops with little to no instructions. The need to teach our children how to use the latest tech toy is no longer necessary – the ubiquity and effect of these devices on our daily lives means they figure it out on their own.

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Zappr – Enhancing your GitHub workflow

Zalando Engineering

There are more than 1,000 people working at Zalando Tech and a substantial amount of them are focused on writing code every day. Our developers work autonomously, with full end-to-end responsibility. For compliance reasons — and as good engineering practice — we want to make sure that every change to production systems is reviewed by at least two Zalando Tech employees.

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Five Tech Jobs That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago

Zalando Engineering

Technology is evolving at almost terminal velocity, with an ever-changing climate of trends currently hot around the globe. When looking at the contemporary state of job postings and vacancies, one can only imagine the plethora of positions that weren’t around all that long ago. What jobs are seen as the norm today that barely existed five years ago?

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.