September, 2017

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A State-of-the-Art Method for Generating Photo-Realistic Textures in Real Time

Zalando Engineering

This blog post gives an overview of the latest work in image generation using machine learning at Zalando Research. In particular, we show how we advanced the state-of-the art in the field by using deep neural networks to produce photo-realistic high resolution texture images in real-time. In the spirit of Zalando’s embrace of open source, we've published two consecutive (see [Jetchev et al. 2016] and [Bergmann et al. 2017] ) papers at world-class machine learning conferences, and the source cod

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Zalando Dublin Welcomes Their 100th Employee

Zalando Engineering

In September 2017, Zalando Dublin welcomed their 100th employee, Joe Maguire. Joe previously worked as an intern in summer 2016 at the Zalando Dublin offices, and comes from a background of electrical engineering. Joe picked up coding in Python and also worked with APIs during his time as an intern. Joe has good memories of his previous time at Zalando, developing a calendar app and giving everyone a run for their money at pool.

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Zalando Fulfillment Solutions and our FAST Replenishment Algorithm

Zalando Engineering

At Zalando, we are constantly looking into ways to widen our assortment, in depth and width. This is to make sure that all fashion items are available anywhere and at anytime for our customers. Our Partner Program helps to bring this vision to life. Through the Partner Program, brands and retailers can integrate their own e-commerce stock into the Zalando Fashion Store and ship their products directly from their own warehouse to Zalando customers.

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IT-Compliance in the 21st Century

Zalando Engineering

When combing through state-of-the-art articles about IT-Compliance Management, it is easy to see that its importance is being highlighted more now than ever. With Zalando being a platform currently available in 15 different markets, we have an array of interesting and exciting challenges to face in terms of regulations, best practices, and standards.

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Apache Airflow® Best Practices for ETL and ELT Pipelines

Whether you’re creating complex dashboards or fine-tuning large language models, your data must be extracted, transformed, and loaded. ETL and ELT pipelines form the foundation of any data product, and Airflow is the open-source data orchestrator specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL and ELT pipelines. This eBook covers: An overview of ETL vs.