Zalando Engineering Blog

An Introduction to the Zalando Design System

A high level overview of the elements composing our Design System and a brief history of how we got from an idea to… Read more…

photo of Andrea MorettiAndrea Moretti

Senior Software Engineer

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…

photo of Pedro AlvesPedro Alves

Principal Software Engineer

Functional tests with Testcontainers

We explore how to write functional tests using Testcontainers.org library in Java-based backend applications. Read more…

photo of Marek HudymaMarek Hudyma

Senior Software Engineer

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…

photo of Boopathi Rajaa NedunchezhiyanBoopathi Rajaa Nedunchezhiyan

Senior Software Engineer

Principal Engineering at Zalando

Learn how we leverage Principal Engineers to solve engineering challenges across Zalando. Read more…

photo of Bartosz OcytkoBartosz Ocytko

Executive Principal Engineer

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…

photo of Henning JacobsHenning Jacobs

Executive Principal Engineer