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Software engineering jobs Zalando is the company blog at tech.zalando.com, writing about programming, systems and data. Since 2014, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “Accelerating Warehouse Operations with Neural Networks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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43mentions?
14HN people?
2014–2017first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 26 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Zalando's engineering blog is linked for technical write-ups from its team, such as a Flink vs Spark comparison and work deploying Patroni for HA PostgreSQL. Most comments are job posts or bare links.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Explore our software engineering job at Zalando.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Accelerating Warehouse Operations with Neural Networks
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-15
  2. Apache Showdown: Flink vs. Spark
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-06
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    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Zalando is hiring in Berlin, Dortmund, Erfurt, Mönchengladbach (Germany); Dublin (Ireland); and Helsinki (Finland). Zalando has built an entire fashion ecommerce stack, and is now starting development work on a number of new tech initiatives around extending beyond being just an ecommerce website to being a platform for connecting people with fashion. There is a lot of high end engineering and product work, from pro…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”
  2. Submitted “Fashion Is Hard. PostgreSQL Is Easy” [video] as a story · 154 points

    HN discussion
  3. Nugg.ad GmbH (Zalando company) | Berlin | Full time ON-SITE - Go (golang) and Spark developers About us - We use Scala for Spark and Go for our Api - We use both AWS and on-premises infrastructure - We work in the Zalando tech hub of Berlin https://tech.zalando.com/locations/#berlin - "You build it, you run it" devops culture - 100.000 req/sec - 100 TB of data - < 20 ms response time - Docker, mesos, marathon, grpc,…

    Comment linking /locations/

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”
  4. Submitted You Too Can Save Loads of Money: The Details of the Bayesian Model as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  5. Zalando https://tech.zalando.com/blog/?gh_src=kh6pjc1

    Comment linking /blog/?gh_src=kh6pjc1

    on “Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?”
  6. Submitted Why “Open Source First” as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  7. Zalando | Europe | https://tech.zalando.com/jobs We're one of the leading European fashion retailers ( https://zalando.de ) operating in 16 countries. Currently we have around 800 people in the tech department, but we need more. You will work in a reasonably small team ("two pizzas") and influence decisions accordingly. Teams prioritize their work themselves. We will help you with relocation. We have offices in Berl…

    Comment linking /jobs

    on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2015)”
  8. Submitted Building an OpenVPN Cluster, Zalando-Style as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  9. For those interested in a comparison between Spark and Flink, a recent article from our blog here: https://tech.zalando.com/blog/apache-showdown-flink-vs.-spar...

    Comment linking /blog/apache-showdown-flink-vs.-spark/

    on “Introducing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink”
  10. Submitted Data Integration in a World of Microservices as a story · 14 points

    HN discussion
  11. We ( https://tech.zalando.com ) also made some work to use Helm to deploy Patroni ( https://github.com/zalando/patroni ), our solution HA PostgreSQL. We have a PR open, if you want to have a look: https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/pull/57 ... comments are always helpful.

    Comment linking /

    on “Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster Using Helm”
  12. Submitted How Zalando Is Going “Open Source First” as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted “Choosing the Right Components”[video] as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted PostgreSQL in a time of Kubernetes as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Using Elm to Create a Fun Game in Just Five Days as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Using Microservices to Power Fashion Search and Discovery as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Apache Showdown: Flink vs. Spark as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Meet Connexion: Zalando's Open-Source REST Framework for Python as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Using Clojure+Spark to Find All the Topics on the Interwebs as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted What We Liked and Learned at JSConf.eu as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How to Fix What You Can't Kill: Undead PostgreSQL Queries as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Show HN: Zmon Zalando Database Monitoring Tool as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Rewiring Zalando's infrastructure outside datacenters as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Accelerating Warehouse Operations with Neural Networks as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted How to Use Parameter Names in SQL Functions as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Analyzing Extreme Distributions in PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Show HN: How Zalando's Mobile engineers support 14M customers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted Pass Props and Keeping the DOM Neat in a React Isomorphic App as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Zalando: Best Practices for Android Developer Productivity as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted Mutation Testing with IntelliJ IDEA as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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