April, 2017

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Improving Swift Compilation Times from 12 to 2 Minutes

Zalando Engineering

With our Fleek app growing and new features being introduced, its compile times have started to become a real challenge. We recently discovered that to compile the app or just make a minor change it would take approximately 12 minutes. We wanted to cut this time dramatically to improve the customer experience overall, as well as our work overhead. In this article, I’ll show how we managed to decrease it to just 2 minutes.

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Top Big Data Hadoop Projects for Practice with Source Code

ProjectPro

You have read some of the best Hadoop books , taken online hadoop training and done thorough research on Hadoop developer job responsibilities – and at long last, you are all set to get real-life work experience as a Hadoop Developer. But when you browse through hadoop developer job postings, you become a little worried as most of the big data hadoop job descriptions require some kind of experience working on projects related to Hadoop.

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Nine Tips for Planning User Research in Foreign Countries

Zalando Engineering

Zalando is active in 15 European markets. In addition to an array of other user testing activities, in 2016 we performed field research in France, UK, Italy, Switzerland and Germany to get a better understanding of the differences in consumer behavior and the local needs of our customers. We have experimented with different set-ups on how to conduct local interviews and after successfully organising 77 of them, we have the following advice to offer about planning field research in different coun

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Taking a Walk in a Producer's Shoes

Zalando Engineering

When I started working as a Producer , my new team let me know that they feel motivated when they have an 80-20 week: 80% programming and 20% learning. My challenge as a Producer is to help my team be organized well enough to focus on the right priorities, while limiting their daily interruptions. To get up to speed with the Producer role , I asked two of my fellow Producers, Sascha and Sophie, to talk about the methods and practices they use in their teams.

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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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Achieving 3.2x Faster Scala Compile Time

Zalando Engineering

For the Glitch team who looks after Quality Control at Zalando, the year 2017 started with a new resolution: Make our compile times faster. Toward the end of 2016, the Glitch team experienced a steady increase in compilation time on their project. In just one month, the compile time doubled and it was hard to understand why. This was clearly hampering the team’s productivity, and a number of strategies were attempted to reduce the long compile time.

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Adapting to the Mobile Consumer

Zalando Engineering

It’s 2017 and mobile is mainstream. Last year, 59% of German customers shopped using their mobile device. The whole consumer experience has changed dramatically over the last decade. Where ten years ago, shoppers researched products online before purchasing in-store, these days consumers prefer a more holistic experience; one where researching, comparing, and buying are not fragmented pieces, but one convenient whole.

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Tech Destination: Berlin

Zalando Engineering

In terms of branding, Berlin does very well. It’s been known as a haven for gifted fugitives or creators – or both – since the roaring twenties, and while the city’s squat skyline remains low the ceiling for success is inordinately high. Berlin’s startup scene is a constant newsmaker , as its growth rockets and it’s inevitably compared to older tech hubs like London or Silicon Valley.

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Crafting a Digital Fashion Vocabulary

Zalando Engineering

Companies involved in the business of fashion like Zalando have shifting priorities, and technology has become more important than ever. Technology at its heart is incredibly granular – highly detailed, and composed of many complex parts. This description can also be applied to fashion: Trends, seasons, fabrics, textures – the entire industry is astonishing in its scope and depth.

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Recap of Hadoop News for March 2017

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop-March 2017 The cloud is disrupting Hadoop. Zdnet.com, March 6, 2017 Forrester estimates that organizations will spend $800 million in hadoop and its related services in 2017. The major force exerting pressure on Hadoop is cloud.With firms no longer showing interest in dangling with hadoop’s on-premise complexity, organizations are more keen on shifting their hadoop stacks to the public cloud.This implies that the revenue of hadoop vendors will see a drastic shift from on-pre

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