Zalando Engineering

JANUARY 24, 2018

How Zalando helps its engineering teams navigate the tech landscape Zalando has more than 200 engineering teams, which regularly face tricky technology choices. To help them make good decisions, we created the Zalando Tech Radar as a "navigation" tool. Inspired by ThoughtWorks , it assigns each technology to one of four rings — Adopt, Trial, Assess and Hold — which represents the current consensus within Zalando.

Building 40

Building Technology Utilities Coding 40

Data Engineering Podcast

JANUARY 21, 2018

Summary The majority of the conversation around machine learning and big data pertains to well-structured and cleaned data sets. Unfortunately, that is just a small percentage of the information that is available, so the rest of the sources of knowledge in a company are housed in so-called “Dark Data” sets. In this episode Alex Ratner explains how the work that he and his fellow researchers are doing on Snorkel can be used to extract value by leveraging labeling functions written by

Machine Learning 100

Machine Learning Data Pipeline Big Data Data Collection 100

Zalando Engineering

JANUARY 22, 2018

Building an aggregated view of data in the event-driven microservice architecture In the world of microservices, where a domain model gets decomposed into related, but independently handled entities, we often face the challenge of building an aggregate view of the data that brings together different parts of that model. While this can already be interesting with “traditional” designs, the move to event-driven architectures can magnify these difficulties, especially with simplistic event streams.

Media 40

Media Kafka Architecture Designing 40