Sat.Jul 09, 2016 - Fri.Jul 15, 2016

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Dynamic App Content: An Introduction to Truly Native Apps

Zalando Engineering

When we designed the home screen of the Zalando App , we faced three challenges. Firstly, the home screen consisted of several components developed and delivered by individual teams, without former native development experience. Secondly, we believe that the first impression for customers - our home screen - must have a premium look and feel, and therefore decided to build it in a truly native fashion.

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Scaling Our Tech Organization and Architecture

Zalando Engineering

Zalando Tech likes to set itself big challenges, like building the greatest tech team on Earth. With our tech department growing rapidly, the challenges of scaling our organization also need to be addressed, to make sure we’re building the best products and establishing a culture of innovation. The term ‘scalability’ has different meanings when we talk about an organization or software architecture, but it’s still critical.

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Building services with the Akamai API Open API using Go

Zalando Engineering

Here at Zalando Tech, we’re driving the “API First approach” as our teams are making a lot of use of external APIs. Since we also depend on different external technologies for content delivery, DNS hosting, and asset storage, we want to integrate our services with them. One good example is Akamai. We’re using a variety of their offerings in order to give customers the best delivery and user experience.