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Mobile Trends for 2016

Zalando Engineering

For even more companies, mobile has become a core pillar of their global strategy in 2015, and this will only grow further in 2016. In 2016, we can expect the Internet of Things and the mobility trend to peak with new offerings that will connect devices to a vast array of gadgets, vehicles and further equipment.

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Zalando lands at EuroClojure 2016

Zalando Engineering

Conclusion EuroClojure 2016 turned out to be an awesome conference. This and the other talks we attended about clojure.spec unveiled the wonderful world of possibilities that the spec gives, which is inspiring and exciting. The city, the venue, the people, and the talks were all better than we expected.

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We’re finalists for the 2016 SAP HANA Innovation Award!

Zalando Engineering

We’ve just received the great news that Zalando has been selected as a Finalist for the 2016 SAP HANA Innovation Award! Public voting closing on April 21st, 2016, so after you vote , why not Tweet about it? With over 100 entries this year, we have been picked among the top three in the Process Simplifier category.

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Bread&Butter 2016: The Livestreaming Rollercoaster

Zalando Engineering

The event’s motto in 2016 was NOW : A reference to the digital, sharable, and instantly shoppable, collectively presented at the culmination of the Autumn/Winter season. Following the acquisition of Bread&Butter by Zalando in 2015, the former trade show for industry insiders became a “trend show” for all.

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Top 5 Career Tips of 2016: UX and Beyond

Zalando Engineering

In 2016, Zalando UX started sharing tips and tricks for designers and researchers looking for work. We’ve been drawing from our hiring experiences this past year to deliver practical, useful career advice -- and published this on UXswitch , LinkedIn and the Zalando Tech Blog.

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The key to a happy Rust/C++ relationship

Engineering at Meta

The history of Rust at Meta goes all the way back to 2016, when we first started using it for source control. Today, it has been widely embraced at Meta and is one of our primary supported server-side languages (along with C++, Python, and Hack). But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any growing pains.

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Brief History of Data Engineering

Jesse Anderson

Apache Kafka has its architectural limitations, and Apache Pulsar was released in 2016. I started to write about the management side of big data in 2016 by talking about how data engineering is more difficult than other industry trends. We lacked a scalable pub/sub system. They eventually merged in 2012.