Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 13, 2015

Earlier this week the PostgreSQL Meetup Group Berlin and Zalando welcomed EnterpriseDB Principal Engineer and longtime PostgreSQL contributor Devrim Gündüz to our Sky Lounge. Devrim offered his insights on best practices and tools for PostgreSQL backup and recovery—watch his helpful (and funny) presentation to catch what you missed: Devrim obviously knows a lot about Postgres, but it’s his Postgres tattoo that truly puts him in the elite class.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 6, 2015

Let’s take a look at how Amazon uses Big Data- Amazon has approximately 1 million hadoop clusters to support their risk management, affiliate network, website updates, machine learning systems and more. Amazon launched a promotional offer in 2011 – “Amazon pays shoppers $5 if they walk out of the store without any purchases.” Interesting?

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Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 10, 2015

Fasten your seat belts: It’s MARIO KART CHAMPIONSHIP FEVER at Zalando Tech’s Berlin HQ! No need to switch on the traffic news, though: You’ll be safe on the streets. We’re keeping the action contained to our brand-new gaming area, where we’ll be playing Mario Kart 8 on our Wii U! Zalando’s first Mario Kart Championship took place in December 2014 during our Hack Week festivities.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 5, 2015

When Steve Jobs introduced a metal cased, chocolate bar sized phone in 2007 with the words “This will change everything”, majority of the world wasn’t convinced. The world started getting used to an idea of a phone which could do much more than it was traditionally expected to. The world got its first smartphone and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 27, 2015

Zalando opened a dedicated Tech Hub in Helsinki this week. Our Helsinki office is our second international Tech office following the Dublin Fashion Insights Centre we opened in April. On Wednesday night, 250+ guests, partners and friends from the Helsinki tech and start-up community met in our new space to celebrate. While our Dublin hub offers insights into all areas of the Zalando platform through data insights; our Helsinki hub will focus primarily on mobile and UX products.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 26, 2015

"Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming."- said Chris Lynch, the ex CEO of Vertica. “Information is the oil of 21 st century, and analytics is the combustion engine”- said Peter Sondergaard, Gartner Analyst “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change the life of a patient or change the world.”- Atul Butte, Stanford With the big data hype all around, it is the fuel

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 20, 2015

The smartphone boom around the world (and exponential rise in data consumption accompanying it) has created an entirely new ecosystem to attract consumers – the mobile application. Smartphone era has shattered the boundary between internet accessibility via personal computer and mobile phones. During the 2007 – 2009 era, when the iPhone was charming mobile consumers around the world and Android was still finding its feet, critics considered it to be short lived and said applications

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Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 20, 2015

During the recent Tech Open Air festivities, Tech.EU Editor Robin Wauters sat down with Zalando Cofounder Robert Gentz to talk about our growth, platform strategy and the Berlin tech scene.

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Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 19, 2015

The Zalando Tech team organizes internal Coder Dojos to foster collaboration and soft skills-learning. Dojos encourage us to leave our comfort zones and work together in different configurations, to achieve results faster. They’re fun and challenging for everyone involved. Our third and most recent coder dojo focused on designing RESTful APIs. One of the fundamental principles of Radical Agility is to take an API First approach to software development, which means creating first-class APIs that

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Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 11, 2015

Last month the Fashtech-Konferenz in Berlin invited Zalando VP Brand Solutions Christoph Lange to present a talk on how his team is enabling VF Corporation, Nike and other top fashion brands to reach customers like never before. Watch Christoph in action: Thanks to Exciting Commerce for covering Christoph's talk!

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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ProjectPro

AUGUST 10, 2015

Hadoop has become synonymous with Big Data and it is not a wonder. Big Data analysis has taken a huge surge with the advent of Hadoop. With its unique distributed computing system Hadoop has taken the Big Data world by storm. Hadoop being open source it is easier for industries to implement Hadoop to solve all their Big Data problems. Learning Hadoop is essential for people who are looking to chart a career in the Big Data industry.

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Zalando Engineering

AUGUST 4, 2015

From August 15-16 the first-ever OpenTechSchool (OTS) conference will take place in Dortmund- located in the Ruhr-Region of Germany and home to Zalando's second German Tech Hub. Zalando is excited to be a sponsor and participate. My colleagues Petra Lehrmann, Ingo Weinzerl, Andreas Rueppert, Stefan Muehlenbaeumer, Janine Lehmann and I will all be there to talk to you about anything related to technology.

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