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Zalando Engineering Blog
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Zalando Engineering Blog is the company blog at engineering.zalando.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters mention Zalando's engineering posts, such as one on functional testing, as an entry in a reading-list knowledge graph and as a reference for a paper reading group. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-17
- Client-Side Load Balancing at a Million Requests per Second2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-06-29
What Hacker News says?
Nice graph, have you considered making it a directed graph, and also assigning more explicit semantic meaning to the edges? So for example, using turtle syntax [1], instead of < https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2022/04/functional-tes... > < http://example.com/graph-edge > < https://www.testcontainers.org/ > have < https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2022/04/functional-tes... > < http://purl.org/dc/terms/subje…
Comment linking /posts/2022/04/functional-tests-with-testcontainers.html
on “Show HN: Every great read I've come across, compiled into a knowledge graph”Submitted Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCongratulations on the five year mark! I co-run a similar paper reading group at Zalando (European e-commerce) and recently shared our learnings/experience[1] of running such a group for over a year and I'm happy to see so many similarities. We focus our papers around distributed systems, software engineering and languages and try to cover more ground on the applications of the concepts discussed in the papers. The…
Comment linking /posts/2026/01/running-an-engineering-papers-reading-guild-at-zalando.html
on “Five Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft”- gu · 2021-12-01
Submitted A Systematic Approach to Reducing Technical Debt as a story · 3 points
HN discussion Submitted Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Engineering at Zalando as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Client-Side Load Balancing at a Million Requests per Second as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Contributing to Debezium: Fixing Logical Replication at Scale as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technology Choices at Zalando – Updating Our Tech Radar Process (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted All you need to know about timeouts as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zalando's Machine Learning Platform as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PgBouncer on Kubernetes and how to achieve minimal latency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agentic Engineering at Zalando: A Snapshot as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In-Process Consistent Hash Load Balancing at a Million Requests per Second as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Migrating to client-side load balancing at a million requests per second as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Search Quality Assurance with AI as a Judge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Day Our Own Queries DoS'ed Us: Inside Zalando Search as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Investment Insights from Two Years of AI-Powered Postmortem Analysis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM powered migration of UI component libraries as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Modules for Testcontainers with Golang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Inbox Zero is not a Lifestyle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zalando Prepares for Cyber Week as a story · 1 points
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