Backend
This category focuses on backend, infrastructure, reliability, and programming languages.
All you need to know about timeouts
How to set a reasonable timeout for your microservices to achieve maximum performance and resilience. Read more...
Anton Ilinchik
Senior Software Engineer
Vishal Varshney
Engineering Manager
Jul 26
2023
Rendering Engine Tales: Road to Concurrent React
Integrating React's Concurrent features into Zalando's web framework. In this post we go over our solution design,... Read more...
Rene Eichhorn
Software Engineer
Ghasem Bakhtiari
Senior Software Engineer
Jan Brockmeyer
Senior Software Engineer
Jul 11
2023
Riptide HTTP Client tutorial
Riptide: learning the fundamentals of the open source Zalando HTTP client Read more...
Olga Semernitskaia
Engineering Lead
Jun 29
2023
How Software Bill of Materials change the dependency game
In this post, we explain what questions and insights Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) provide across thousands of... Read more...
Bartosz Ocytko
Executive Principal Engineer
Apr 13
2023
How we manage our 1200 incident playbooks
We consolidated our incident playbooks in September 2019. 1200 playbooks later... Read more...
Bartosz Ocytko
Executive Principal Engineer
Jan 31
2023
Operation-Based SLOs
Zalando developed a new type of SLOs to monitor the critical aspects of its business which is based on Operations.... Read more...
Pedro Alves
Principal Software Engineer
Apr 28
2022
Zalando's Machine Learning Platform
Architecture and tooling behind machine learning at Zalando Read more...
Krzysztof Szafranek
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 19
2022
Functional tests with Testcontainers
We explore how to write functional tests using Testcontainers.org library in Java-based backend applications. Read more...
Marek Hudyma
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 12
2022
GraphQL persisted queries and Schema stability
Learn how Zalando uses persisted queries, and how we define and think about different levels of stability of our... Read more...
Boopathi Rajaa Nedunchezhiyan
Senior Software Engineer
Feb 17
2022
Releasing Connexion to the Community
After 6 years and 3.9k GitHub stars, we are releasing Connexion, our API-first Python framework, to the Open Source... Read more...
Henning Jacobs
Executive Principal Engineer
Feb 07
2022