December, 2014

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HACK WEEK: Reverse Engineering with Zalando parcels

Zalando Engineering

Usually you can identify the best Zalando customers among your colleagues by the amount of zalando boxes they collect under their desks :) Some creative colleagues got inspired at the sight of stockpiled parcels and saw more in them than just packages. They started the hackweek project “cardboard furniture”in which they are currently building stuff out of old cardboard boxes.

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Zalando Hack Week - Making Innovation Visible

Zalando Engineering

Five years of extremely fast growth and continuous success lie behind us. Always forward-focused, we hardly had time to look left or right. But for one week in late December, our Technology department made a full stop and let the year wind down with playful innovation and experimentation. Say “Hi” to Hack Week – one week for over 400 people to brainstorm and execute their very own ideas without limits across teams, functions and several office locations.

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Hack Week: Zalando 3D printing

Zalando Engineering

Imagine a world where everyone could print their own shoes. These guys are working on it. We're exploring 3D printing as a new way to quickly prototype designs.

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Behind the scenes: Zalando Space Launch

Zalando Engineering

Sending a shoe into space is no easy task, in just a few days a handful of developers, engineers, and product managers created this prototype that they will launch tomorrow! Here we take a behind the look at the team and the equipment the guys are using to send their shoe into space! Up, up and away!!

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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.

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Hack Week: Ask Zalanda

Zalando Engineering

Customer satisfaction is key to Zalando. We're always looking at new ways to improve our service. This group uses Artificial Intelligence to create Zalanda, a friendly voice which you can take with you wherever you go.

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Hack Week: 3D Item View with cardboard like Virtual Reality Kit

Zalando Engineering

Virtual reality is all the rage right now. And we have tons of spare Zalando cardboard boxes laying around. These creative folks put two and two together and are exploring new ways Zalando can use virtual reality.

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Hack Week: Fashion Meets Tech - Smart Wearables

Zalando Engineering

Fashion designers meet engineers! Our fashion designers from zLabels join hands with our engineers to take on smart wearables. If smart wearable electronics, circuit boards and soldering is your thing be sure to take a look at how one team tackles this futuristic problem.

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HACK WEEK: The Great Unpacking Experience

Zalando Engineering

How do you feel when you receive your favorite shoes from Zalando? I am sure you would be very excited to put them on as quickly as possible. But, in order to get those shoes out of the box, you shall also unpack the Zalando box. What if Zalando makes you happier and catches your emotions also when you unpack that box? A team, at Hack Week, is working hard to find out what would be the best unpacking experience for Zalando customers.