Zalando Engineering

DECEMBER 1, 2016

If you’re a frequent shopper on Zalando, you would have noticed our recommendations for similar items and brands when you’re browsing. It’s a feature we’re constantly iterating on to make the experience as personalised as possible. Having recently been featured in the Financial Times about algorithms and data to suggest your next purchase , we’ve decided to dive a little deeper into what these powerful tools can do for customers and for our business.

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Zalando Engineering

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

TL;DR: The API-first approach combined with Connexion are powerful tools to create effective microservices. The use of API-first brings the benefit of creating APIs that fulfil the expectations of your clients. Besides that, using Connexion will help you develop APIs in Python in a smooth manner. Google’s acquisition of Apigee emphasises how important APIs are in today’s architecture of applications.

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Zalando Engineering

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

We’re almost at the end of this year’s Zalando Techspert Series run, but before we have our last hurrah of the year, we’ve had some great input from Berlin companies about picking the right business model. Our SVP Products, Philipp Erler, was joined by Daniela Cecílio, CEO of fashion search tool Asap54 and Martin Kütter, COO of the world’s first language learning app, Babbel.

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