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Zalando Jobs
Company blog · jobs.zalando.com/tech/blogprogrammingsystems
Zalando Jobs is the company blog at jobs.zalando.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 36 times, most often “Short Story of a Long Migration (from Java 7 to Java 8)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly link Zalando's jobs pages in hiring threads. Its tech blog is cited for posts on Scala compile-time diagnostics, micro frontends and warehouse-routine optimisation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Zalando Career Website
Most-linked posts?
- Short Story of a Long Migration (from Java 7 to Java 8)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-01
What Hacker News says?
Very easy, but Berlin is booming so rents are going up and vacant apartments have lots of competition. Zalando has 245 open tech positions: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?search=technology
Comment linking /en/?search=technology
on “Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?”Submitted Front-End Microservices as a story · 91 points
HN discussionZalando Dublin - UI Engineer. Fashion Insights Centre. Front End | REMOTE (ONSITE) | FULL-TIME Zalando is one of Europe's largest ecommerce companies, with over twenty-two million paying customers and approximately two hundred million website and app visits per month. The Customer Data Platform, based in Dublin, is responsible for building and maintaining platform-scale customer data infrastructure to 1) support Zal…
Comment linking /jobs/969637-ui-engineer/?gh_src=4n3gxh1
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Why We Do Scala in Zalando as a story · 8 points
HN discussionZalando | Senior Backend and JavaScript Engineers | Berlin, Germany | ONSITE | Full-time I am part of the Product Analytics department at Zalando and we are doing some pretty interesting stuff here related to data - tracking, A/B testing, analytics and reporting. We are operating at great scale and you will get to learn a lot. Currently we are hiring senior devs with below profiles: * Senior Backend Engineer - A/B T…
Comment linking /tech/jobs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Submitted Defeating the Travelling Salesman Problem for Warehouse Logistics (2014) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionInteresting article I read from Zalando, which in the same vein as the Learned Indexes paper, takes a previously computationally expensive routine (Optimal Cart Pick) and learns it as an approximation to a complex function that, in the end, has faster run-time. https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/accelerating-warehouse-op...
Comment linking /tech/blog/accelerating-warehouse-operations-with-neural-networks/
on “Ask HN: What was the best CS paper you read in 2017?”Submitted A Story of Rust at Zalando as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAnd you don't understand the purpose of JWTs. No one needed to mention anything about stateless authentication because enabling stateless authentication is the purpose of JWTs [1]. Yes, just store a signed cookie with a random token for the session and use stateful authentication. That fits most people's needs better than stateless. (Even signing is more or less optional in many common cases. If the cookie is only a…
Comment linking /tech/blog/the-purpose-of-jwt-stateless-authentication/
on “Ask HN: Go-to web stack today?”Submitted Distributed Cache on Kubernetes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionScala open source projects from The Guardian: https://github.com/guardian?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type=&language... Scala at Morgan Stanley: https://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/480ral/scala_at_morg... https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/morgan-stanley-scala-jobs/?cou... Scala at Barclays: https://underscore.io/jobs/2017-11-02-barclays/ Scala at Zalando: https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/why-we-do-scala Scala open source pr…
Comment linking /tech/blog/why-we-do-scala
on “Towards Scala 3”Submitted Rock Solid Kafka and ZooKeeper Ops on AWS as a story · 3 points
HN discussionZalando SE | Backend Scala Multiple levels | Berlin, Germany | Full-time | ONSITE with VISA (WFH) Zalando Search team is building Europe's biggest and smartest fashion search engine using Scala and Lucene, Elasticsearch. - Backend Engineer (Scala) - Search Experience https://jobs.zalando.com/en/jobs/2338452--backend-engineer-s...
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted How to set an ideal Thread Pool size as a story · 2 points
HN discussionZalando | Multiple Roles | Helsinki, Finland | Full-time | ONSITE | https://jobs.zalando.com/ Zalando is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion. We bring head-to-toe fashion to more than 32 million active customers. The scale of our business creates interesting engineering challenges. The maturity of our engineering organization allows us to experiment, learn, grow and enjoy solving those challenges. We are ac…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Zalando Research Releases NLP “Flair” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionZalando | Senior Backend Engineer (Java and/or Kotlin) | Full-time | ONSITE | Berlin, Germany Zalando is Europe's leading online fashion platform. We deliver to customers in 20 countries. In our fashion store, they can find a wide assortment from more than 4,000 brands. We are looking for 2 Senior Backend Engineers to join the teams that select the delivery promises (how fast customers can get their orders, and for…
Comment linking /en/jobs/?filters%5Bcategories%5D%5B0%5D=Software%20Engineering
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021)”Submitted Singleton Types (A Scala 3 Experiment) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI see that many people are asking for examples. Zalando is doing this for couple of years now, you can look at their talk [1] where they describe how they use this pattern + some open source libs for composing those UI components [2] Many other components of this kind of infrastructure are described and linked here [3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m32EdvitXy4 [2] https://github.com/zalando/tailor [3] https://…
Comment linking /tech/blog/front-end-micro-services/?gh_src=4n3gxh1
on “Micro Frontends”Submitted Short Story of a Long Migration (from Java 7 to Java 8) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionZalando | Berlin, Germany | Full-Time | On-site | Visa & Relocation Assistance Tech Blog - https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/?gh_src=4n3gxh1 Open Source Tech Radar - https://opensource.zalando.com/tech-radar/ Zalando ( https://en.zalando.de/ ) is Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, connecting customers, brands and partners across 17 markets. We drive digital solutions for fashion, logistics, advertising a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”Submitted The Democratization of ‘Data Science as a Service’ Is Here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRe: compilation speed, a story with happy end: Achieving 3.2x Faster Scala Compile Time Diagnostics: - A method that takes an additional, implicit parameter that needs to be filled in by the compiler - the Scala compiler synthesized an argument for that parameter using macros - instead of using an existing value in the implicit scope Conclusion: that's why a small source file took so long to typecheck. Details at ht…
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on “Scala 2.12.3 Released”Submitted Why We Do Scala in Zalando as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRe implicits and their interplay with macros: Achieving 3.2x Faster Scala Compile Time Diagnostics: - A method takes an implicit parameter to be filled in by the compiler - the Scala compiler synthesizes an argument for that parameter using macros - instead of using an existing value in the implicit scope Conclusion: that's why a small source file took so long to typecheck. Details at https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/b…
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on “Scala: Understanding implicits”Submitted Lean Testing, or Why Unit Tests Are Worse Than You Think as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNone except I want to buy their stock. Lately: https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/blog/
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on “Ask HN: Which companies' tech blogs do you read?”Submitted Short Story of a Long Migration: Java 8 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRe: compilation speed, a story with happy end: Achieving 3.2x Faster Scala Compile Time Diagnostics: - A method takes an implicit parameter to be filled in by the compiler - the Scala compiler synthesizes an argument for that parameter using macros - instead of using an existing value in the implicit scope Conclusion: that's why a small source file took so long to typecheck. Details at https://jobs.zalando.com/tech/…
Comment linking /tech/blog/achieving-3.2x-faster-scala-compile-time/
on “Twitter announces Reasonable Scala compiler with the focus on compilation speed”Submitted Simplicity by Distributing Complexity as a story · 1 points
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