2015

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Service-Oriented Architecture: Scaling the Uber Engineering Codebase As We Grow

Uber Engineering

Like many startups, Uber began its journey with a monolithic architecture, built for a single offering in a single city. At the time, all of Uber was our UberBLACK option and our “world” was San Francisco. Having one codebase seemed … The post Service-Oriented Architecture: Scaling the Uber Engineering Codebase As We Grow appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Mobile Trends for 2016

Zalando Engineering

Shopping straight from social media Social platforms, such as Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest, came up with the “Buy Button” this year so users can shop selected items without leaving the respective social platform. Mobile users spend most of their time on social apps, and according to Nielsen this is around 85% of their time. This offers customers a convenient way to order their favorite items straight away.

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Recap of Hadoop News for November

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop – November 2015 2nd Generation Hadoop has become the most critical cloud applications platform, Nov 2, 2015, TechRepublic.com Hadoop version of 1.0 was specifically designed for application processing to support use cases of batch processing. Hadoop second generation is designed to support real time applications where Hadoop is used not just as a storage system but as an application platform.

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Hack Week #4: Let’s Talk About Code, Baby!

Zalando Engineering

Zalando’s many tech-driven projects and initiatives — from logistics to customer care to marketing analysis — are cross-departmental. To help our thousands of non-tech employees better understand our many tech topics and terms, one of our Hack Week teams created a training program called Let’s Talk About Code, Baby. The project aims to help us all to better understand each other and create a more collaborative environment.

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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 #4: Zinder

Zalando Engineering

Seven members of Zalando’s Helsinki team (“Zelsinkis”) meet at the Helsinki airport on a Sunday afternoon. It doesn’t take long for the first challenge to hit us in the face — or feet, I should say. Our airline decides to change our departure gate, and we’re on the other side of the airport. Gotta love it. Got to RUN! Our team — five engineers, one producer (that’s me!

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Hack Week #4: Turn it up to Eleven

Zalando Engineering

Hack Week is not all about coding, innovating and working hard. Throughout the week we’ve hosted parties and side events to help the teams really let their hair down and relax. The theme of Hack Week #4 is Rockstarz, so we’ve organized lots of Rock n’ Roll-themed activities. Since Monday, our Rockbandz competition has run daily at lunchtime in Berlin and Dortmund.

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Hack Week #4: #DortmundWillHackThis

Zalando Engineering

With our transformation from fashion retailer into fashion platform , our amazing business success, and our implementation of Radical Agility , Zalando Tech has grown exponentially in 2015. Nearly 900 technologists work from seven different locations : Berlin (tech headquarters), Dortmund, Mönchengladbach, Erfurt, Hamburg, Dublin and Helsinki. With such a huge team, we’ve had to open a second Hack Week location for the first time in Hack Week history.

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Hack Week #4 Begins!

Zalando Engineering

Hack Week #4 has officially kicked off! This year's edition is bigger than ever , with more Zalando technologists, more tech offices, and more members of our news room to bring you daily coverage of the week's events. In addition to being rock star-themed, this is also our first "international" Hack Week, with technologists from our Dublin and Helsinki hubs joining our Berlin and Dortmund teams to create and innovate.

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Building Our Own Open-Source HTTP Routing Solution

Zalando Engineering

Skipper is the open-source HTTP router we’ve created to help us rebuild the infrastructure behind Zalando’s customer-facing Fashion Store (“the Shop”). Developed with Go, it’s “go get” compatible and serves as a common entry point in front of the Shop’s service components. Skipper can be useful for non-Zalando teams who are trying to deploy a microservices architecture and want (or need) to decouple routing from service logic.

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Top Hadoop Projects and Spark Projects for Beginners 2021

ProjectPro

Big data has taken over many aspects of our lives and as it continues to grow and expand, big data is creating the need for better and faster data storage and analysis. Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark fulfill this need as is quite evident from the various projects that these two frameworks are getting better at faster data storage and analysis. These Apache Hadoop projects are mostly into migration, integration, scalability, data analytics, and streaming analysis.

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Apache Airflow®: The Ultimate Guide to DAG Writing

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

In this new webinar, Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate, will walk you through many Airflow best practices and advanced features that can help you make your pipelines more manageable, adaptive, and robust. She'll focus on how to write best-in-class Airflow DAGs using the latest Airflow features like dynamic task mapping and data-driven scheduling!

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Impala vs Hive: Difference between Sql on Hadoop components

ProjectPro

Hadoop has continued to grow and develop ever since it was introduced in the market 10 years ago. Every new release and abstraction on Hadoop is used to improve one or the other drawback in data processing, storage and analysis. Apache Hive was introduced by Facebook to manage and process the large datasets in the distributed storage in Hadoop. Apache Hive is an abstraction on Hadoop MapReduce and has its own SQL like language HiveQL.

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How to Web Summit

Zalando Engineering

“In 4 years, Web Summit has grown from 400 attendees to over 22,000 from more than 110 countries. It’s been called ‘the best technology conference on the planet.’ But we just think it‘s different. And that difference works for our attendees, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the world’s most exciting startups.” — websummit.com Zalando is participating in this year's Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland with a booth, a fireside chat on the mainstage featuring our cofounder Robert Gentz, a panel on t

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Sqoop vs. Flume Battle of the Hadoop ETL tools

ProjectPro

Apache Hadoop is synonymous with big data for its cost-effectiveness and its attribute of scalability for processing petabytes of data. Data analysis using hadoop is just half the battle won. Getting data into the Hadoop cluster plays a critical role in any big data deployment. Data ingestion is important in any big data project because the volume of data is generally in petabytes or exabytes.

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How Zalando’s App Makes Instagram Images Shoppable

Zalando Engineering

I’ve been a product manager on the Zalando mobile apps team since 2013, and for as long as I can remember our customers have been telling us that they derive inspiration for their fashion purchases via Instagram. With more than 300 million active users sharing more than 70 million photos and videos every day, Instagram has become the perfect spot to easily share and discover new outfits and street styles.

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Optimizing The Modern Developer Experience with Coder

Many software teams have migrated their testing and production workloads to the cloud, yet development environments often remain tied to outdated local setups, limiting efficiency and growth. This is where Coder comes in. In our 101 Coder webinar, you’ll explore how cloud-based development environments can unlock new levels of productivity. Discover how to transition from local setups to a secure, cloud-powered ecosystem with ease.

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What We Liked and Learned at JSConf.eu

Zalando Engineering

Late last month brought the seventh edition of JSConf.eu , Berlin’s largest JavaScript conference, and my colleague Andrey Kuzmin and I were lucky enough to attend. Aside from offering (always!) great food, the conference also featured an array of interesting talks over two tracks. Here’s what we enjoyed the most: Microsoft Edge Kai Jäger of Microsoft gave an introduction to Microsoft’s most recent — and joyfully anticipated — browser.

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Building an OpenVPN Cluster, Zalando-Style

Zalando Engineering

Since Zalando’s earliest days, members of our technology team have been able to use OpenVPN to work anywhere, anytime. Back then (the late 2000s), we had only a single (though state-of-the-art) instance to work with, and a lot of manual maintenance to perform. Last year, in light of a years-long period of explosive growth, our team realized that we needed to build something scalable, fully redundant, and easier-to-maintain for hundreds of users.

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Why Zalando Is Celebrating “Mobile First Day”

Zalando Engineering

Pretend for a moment that you work in a dynamic, multinational ecommerce company, and that you are tasked with getting your +9,000 coworkers to think, support and believe in “Mobile First.” How, and where, do you begin? Zalando’s Mobile First team has been wrestling with this idea all year, and has come up with three key ingredients: A solid, easy-to-understand definition of what it means to be “Mobile First.

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What are the Pre-requisites to learn Hadoop?

ProjectPro

Hadoop has now been around for quite some time. But this question has always been present as to whether it is beneficial to learn Hadoop, the career prospects in this field and what are the pre-requisites to learn Hadoop? To address each of these questions in detail, our counsellors work tirelessly to keep themselves updated with the industry news and provide the best advice to people regarding - who can learn Hadoop and the career prospects in Hadoop.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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ProjectPro Reviews: Online Hadoop Training Class of July 25 2015

ProjectPro

The Hadoop online training session at ProjectPro is conducted through 42 hours of live webinar session where an industry expert explains all the tools in Hadoop in detail. HDFS, MapReduce, Hive and Pig are taught using hands on examples and projects. Hadoop admin tools like Oozie and Zookeeper are also covered to provide a comprehensive Hadoop developer training.

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PostgreSQL Backups Done Right (Video)

Zalando Engineering

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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Gearing up for Zalando’s Mario Kart Championship

Zalando Engineering

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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Mobile App Development

ProjectPro

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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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Mobile Testing Challenges at Zalando + 6Wunderkinder

Zalando Engineering

Recently Zalando Tech hosted the Mobile Quality Crew meetup on “Mobile Testing Challenges at Zalando and 6WunderKinder.” Mobile Quality Crew-Berlin organizers Hannes Lenke (CCO & CFO of TestObject) and Oliver Rupnow (QA Expert & Trainer at Díaz & Hilterscheid) do a great job of seeking out relevant topics and speakers, while maintaining an engaged and open-minded community of mobile developers and QA specialists.

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Zalando's Traveling Prototyping Team

Zalando Engineering

In recent months, Zalando technologists have been working hard on our platform strategy: our shift, from an online fashion platform to a multi-service platform that offers fashion as a service. Put another way, Zalando is no longer satisfied with being “an online shop.” We are in the process of a massive integration of all our components and services that connect people to fashion, and fashion to people.

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ProjectPro Reviews: Online Hadoop Training Class of May 16 2015

ProjectPro

The online Hadoop training course at ProjectPro is a detailed and comprehensive curriculum – prepared over a course of months by industry experts. The course has 42 hours of live instructor led classes where Hadoop concepts like- MapReduce, HDFS, Hive and Pig concepts are covered in detail and more concepts like Sqoop, Flume, HBase , Oozie and Zookeeper are also taught with a view to provide a complete training in Hadoop.Hands on practice is achieved through 40 hours of lab and 25 hours of

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Zalando Did Tech Open Air

Zalando Engineering

This was the first year that Zalando Tech sponsored Tech Open Air (TOA) , and the festival was a big deal for our team. We enjoyed every minute of it, and had fun connecting with all the great people we met. Some TOA highlights: The Nerf Gun Challenge at our Unconference Booth: We didn't think we'd meet so many people as passionate about Nerf games as we are!

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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How JPMorgan uses Hadoop to leverage Big Data Analytics?

ProjectPro

With more than 150 petabytes of data, approximately 3.5 billion user accounts and 30,000 databases, JPMorgan Chase is definitely a name to reckon with in the financial sector. JPMorgan offers its financial services in commercial banking, private banking, investment banking, asset management, security services and treasury - in more than 100 countries across the globe.The corporate and investment banking giant offers a wide range of financial products and services to meet the banking needs of its

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Zalando goes to ReactEurope Paris

Zalando Engineering

Created and open-sourced by Facebook, React has attracted a productive community of engineers who tend to rethink the old ways of building front-end and iterate over newer concepts. At Zalando, we’ve used React to create our Shop the Look feature and some internal tools, and are considering whether to adopt it more broadly across our organization. To help ourselves reach a more informed decision, a few of us attended ReactEurope: a two-day (and Zalando-sponsored) conference held in Paris last we

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Big Data is an illusion - There is no Big Data.

ProjectPro

If you came here to read about how Big Data is an illusion, then you are in the wrong place. Yes, you read that right. Big Data has become an entity on its own. Everything we do today generates data – big data. Each of these data points are collected, stored and analysed – to sell a product/service customized to individual tastes and preferences, to study behaviour patterns for sentiment analysis to see if it affects national/political policies, etc.It is not an exaggeration to state

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What We Learned While Making Zalando's Apple Watch App

Zalando Engineering

In May the Zalando mobile team updated our iOS app to include several extra features, including navigation and a new product detail page. We also included Apple Watch support for the very first time, to make the Zalando app more user-friendly and innovative. Because it’s so new, the WatchKit framework is likely to present some challenges even for highly experienced iOS developers.

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Improving the Accuracy of Generative AI Systems: A Structured Approach

Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

When developing a Gen AI application, one of the most significant challenges is improving accuracy. This can be especially difficult when working with a large data corpus, and as the complexity of the task increases. The number of use cases/corner cases that the system is expected to handle essentially explodes. 💥 Anindo Banerjea is here to showcase his significant experience building AI/ML SaaS applications as he walks us through the current problems his company, Civio, is solving.