Zalando Engineering

DECEMBER 15, 2016

We’re at the end of the Zalando Techspert Series for 2016, where we’ve decided to have an up close and personal event with Nicolas Zimmer, the CEO of the Technology Foundation of Berlin, and Marc Lamik, Zalando’s Head of Innovation and Partnerships. “Culture: Beyond Agile” was the hot topic of the evening, with healthy discussion taking place about expectations of the future workplace and the evolution of agile methodologies.

Technology 40

Technology Engineering IT 40

Zalando Engineering

DECEMBER 13, 2016

You may have previously read about our use of Elasticsearch at Zalando Tech, and especially our utilization of Elasticsearch Express : An appliance with a toolkit enabling quick deployment and management of Elasticsearch clusters. For us, clusters are not exposed to consumers directly, but rather behind applications. Good communication between applications and clusters is an essential requirement for scaling either without causing problems.

Transportation 40

Transportation Utilities Process Management 40

Zalando Engineering

DECEMBER 12, 2016

EuroClojure is the largest Clojure conference in Europe. It is organised by Cognitect and is a single track, two day event organised this year in Bratislava, Slovakia. Zalando was excited to sponsor the event and send engineers to meet hundreds of Clojurians, attend great presentations, and enjoy the beautiful city. The Talks One of the most anticipated topics at EuroClojure were the presentations about clojure.spec, a new feature in Clojure 1.9 which is in the alpha stage.

Scala 40

Scala Entertainment Machine Learning Deep Learning 40