Backend
This category focuses on backend, infrastructure, reliability, and programming languages.
Paper Announcement: Leveraging Multimodal LLMs for Large-Scale Product Retrieval Evaluation
Sharing our latest research paper on leveraging LLM-as-a-Judge for scalable, multimodal relevance assessment in... Read more...
Kasra Hosseini
Senior Applied Scientist
Nov 15
2024
Ensuring Even Ad Spend on the Zalando Homepage: How Our New Bidding Algorithm Maximizes Value for Advertisers and Shoppers
Learn how Zalando improved ad exposure while maintaining a seamless shopping experience for Zalando users through a... Read more...
Rui Gonçalves
Senior Software Engineer
Anoop Katti
Principal Applied Scientist
Carlos Garcia Alvarado
Senior Applied Scientist
Stefano Restelli
Senior Product Manager
Sep 17
2024
OpenTelemetry for JavaScript Observability at Zalando
How Zalando improved observability for Node.js and web applications using OpenTelemetry Read more...
Mohit Karekar
Senior Software Engineer
Jul 29
2024
Node.js and the tale of worker threads
Join me on a Friday night on-call investigation into a rogue Node.js service. Read more...
Jeremy Colin
Engineering Manager
Jul 25
2024
End-to-end test probes with Playwright
Learn how we set up reliable automated end-to-end test probes for our Zalando website using Playwright Read more...
Jeremy Colin
Engineering Manager
Jul 19
2024
Failing to Auto Scale Elasticsearch in Kubernetes
A story of operational failure in large scale Elastisearch installation including the root cause analysis and... Read more...
Juho Vuori
Senior Software Engineer
Jun 21
2024
Next level customer experience with HTTP/3 traffic engineering
HTTP/3 addresses key challenges such as latency reduction, concurrent access, and low-latency content delivery. Read more...
Dmitry Kolesnikov
Senior Principal Engineer
Jun 18
2024
Transitioning to Appcraft: Evolution of Zalando’s server-driven UI framework
This article outlines our server-driven UI framework utilised for mobile applications and delves into the reasons... Read more...
Kanupriya Gupta
Senior Software Engineer
Linda Medina
Senior Software Engineer
May 16
2024
Enhancing the Mock Server: A User Interface Approach
A summary of our experience using a mock server library in our frontend React application and how we leveraged a... Read more...
Carlos Tan
Software Engineer
Apr 25
2024
Enhancing Distributed System Load Shedding with TCP Congestion Control Algorithm
Load shedding is a common problem in event driven systems. But even more problematic when that load needs to be... Read more...
Andrew Meleka
Software Engineer
Stefan Litsche
Principal Software Engineer
Apr 23
2024