May, 2017

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Hack Around The Clock – Hack Night @ Zalando Hamburg

Zalando Engineering

Here at Zalando Tech, hacking has a long tradition and it’s not merely limited to writing lines of code. Back in the day, when there were no blinds to protect our screens from the reflection of the sun, staff covered the office windows with paper bags. This pragmatism is what makes working at Zalando unique. With our first Hack Night in Hamburg, a similar approach could be felt.

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Recap of Hadoop News for April 2017

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop-April 2017 AI Will Eclipse Hadoop, Says Forrester, So Cloudera Files For IPO As A Machine Learning Platform. Forbes.com, April 3, 2017. Apache Hadoop was one of the revolutionary technology in the big data space but now it is buried deep by Deep Learning. According to Forrester Research report, declared in March 2017, artificial intelligence will eclipse hadoop.

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Behind Project Deadlines: Estimations for a Shared Understanding

Zalando Engineering

Years of project management has taught me that one of the keys to a project’s success is managing stakeholder expectations. The only medium we have to influence expectations is effective communication. Autonomy allows teams to open up their creativity and solve hard problems by being self-organized. It expects an extraordinary degree of commitment but also an important sense of accountability, which often puts teams under pressure that are asked to provide forecasting on their work.

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Platform Engineering and Third Generation Microservices in Dublin

Zalando Engineering

The Zalando Dublin Technology Hub formed in 2015 in part to research and develop products and services using data science. There’s ongoing collaboration with our colleagues in Germany and Finland  -  recently, over twenty data science researchers and engineers from Dublin attended a two-day internal conference in Berlin. They presented on topics ranging from multi-lingual analysis of fashion content, image tagging with TensorFlow , to infrastructure for model hierarchies.

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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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Personalization For The Good Of All

Zalando Engineering

In the Fall of 2016, five senior software engineers found themselves in cold water. Not only was the freezing Finnish winter approaching fast, but the whole vision for their team was about to raise chills: revolutionize the whole personalization approach for customers shopping on Zalando. The bar was set high. The user stories were endless. The key metrics set for product evaluation bewildered even the most analytically minded developer.

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Detecting List Items Observed by User

Zalando Engineering

Scrollable sets of items are one of the main UI elements of every app. Quite often a business wants to know if a user has viewed and perceived a specific item. From here, we need to figure out if a user spent enough time in order to accept the content. Let’s find an Android solution using RecyclerView and RxJava. Why and what? Our team met with the following requirement: identify which item of the RecyclerView list was viewed and perceived by the user.

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Selenium Conf Gets a Dose of Zalenium

Zalando Engineering

Zalenium is an open source software extension to scale up and down your local grid dynamically with Docker containers. It uses Docker-Selenium to run tests in Firefox/Chrome, and when a different browser is needed, tests get redirected to a cloud testing service. At the latest Selenium Conf, Zalando presented Zalenium to the world, with Diego Molina and Leo Gallucci giving their rundown to Selenium developers and enthusiasts from around the world.

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