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
12 Golden Signals To Discover Anomalies And Performance Issues on Your AWS RDS Fleet
Automate anomaly detection for AWS RDS at scale. Read more...
Dmitry Kolesnikov
Senior Principal Engineer
Feb 20
2024
Tale of 'metadpata': the revenge of the supertools
One day in November 2022, we brought down our shop with a single character. This post recaps on the lessons we... Read more...
Bartosz Ocytko
Executive Principal Engineer
Diego Roccia
Engineering Manager
Jan 23
2024
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
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
Tracing SRE’s journey in Zalando - Part III
Follow Zalando's journey to adopt SRE in its tech organization. Read more...
Pedro Alves
Principal Software Engineer
Oct 15
2021