This is a compiled list of public talks by Zalando Tech: meetup presentations, recorded conference talks, slides, etc. We try to keep the list up-to-date --- please open a Pull Request to add a public presentation.
- 2026-09-18 AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: Economies of Scale for MCP and Agents – Why You Need an Identity Broker (Magnus Jungsbluth, Jan Brennenstuhl)
- 2026-06-26 Swiss PGDay (lightning talk): SQL-first application development with sqlc (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2026-06-17 Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026 San Francisco: Stop Arguing About Numbers: How Zalando Scales Governance with Unity Catalog and Metric Views (Mukrram Ur Rahman & Fabian Halkivaha)
- 2026-05-20 KCD Helsinki: Type-safe Postgres access in cloud-native applications with sqlc (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2026-04-28 DevOps Finland: A perfect storm: How a tiny change in a CMS once broke up the Fashion Store (Uri Savelchev)
- 2026-04-22 PostgreSQL Conf Germany: Into the Woods: Finding Your Way with B-Trees in PostgreSQL (Sergey Dudoladov)
- 2026-02-12 ContainerDays London: Practical sqlc: leveraging SQL-first code generation in Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2026-02-01 FOSDEM Go track: Extending sqlc: augmented generation of repositories in Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov) (video)
- 2025-11-05 Zalando x Callstack Webinar: Scaling React Native at Zalando: How Brownfield Migration Paid Off (Ghasem Bakhtiari, René Eichhorn)
- 2025-11-04 Helsinki Postgres meetup: SQL compiler (sqlc): code generation matters (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2025-10-21 PG Conf EU 2025: Meet-ups as Stepping Stones: Building a PG Community in Berlin (Sergey Dudoladov)
- 2025-10-07 GoLab Florence: Beyond sqlc: teaching AI to generate repositories and integration tests in Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov) (video)
- 2025-09-10 ContainerDays Hamburg: Revisiting the Outbox Pattern in Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov) (video)
- 2025-09-04 React Universe: Adopting cross-platform React Native at scale: Zalando's learnings from the ongoing migration (Rene Eichhorn) (video)
- 2025-06-19 PostgreSQL meet-up Berlin: The Lifecycle of a SELECT: A blick into the depths of PostgreSQL internals (Sergey Dudoladov)
- 2025-05-09 PGConf.DE 2025: What is Patroni, really? (Polina Bungina)
- 2025-05-08 PGConf.DE 2025: The Lifecycle of a SELECT: A blick into the depths of PostgreSQL internals (Sergey Dudoladov)
- 2025-04-03 Conf42 Golang track: Practical guide to testing Go services (Nikolay Kuznetsov) (video)
- 2025-04-01 KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: The State of GenAI & ML in the Cloud Native Ecosystem (Alejandro Saucedo, Bartosz Ocytko) (video)
- 2025-03-26 CloudConf: CloudOperations at Scale (Heinrich Hartmann)
- 2025-03-18 Helsinki Gophers meetup hosted by Zalando: Postgres Logical Replication in Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2025-03-18 Helsinki Gophers meetup hosted by Zalando: GenAI with langchain-go and Ollama (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2025-02-19 Helsinki Java meetup hosted by Zalando: GenAI in Java with Langchain4j and Ollama (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2025-02-04 PostgreSQL Meet-up Berlin February hosted by Zalando (Sergey Dudoladov)
- 2025-02-01 FOSDEM Go track (lightning talk): pgx-outbox (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2025-01-22 Helsinki Gophers meetup: Transactional outbox pattern in Golang (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2024-09-27 Women+ Data & AI Festival: Building Applications with LLMs (Sinan Tang)
- 2024-08-20 DevOps Finland: Production Readiness Review in Zalando (Uri Savelchev)
- 2024-06-11 goto; Amsterdam: A field guide to Reliability Engineering at Zalando (Heinrich Hartmann) video
- 2024-06-11 Mastering Unity Catalog: Lessons from Zalando's Adoption Journey (Sebastian Herold)
- 2024-06-11 How Zalando's Internal Developer Portal makes >2000 Engineers More Productive (Levi Ferreira)
- 2024-03-14 Server Driven UI @ Zalando (David Jones)
- 2024-03-14 Building Interpreters (David Jones)
- 2024-03-05 PostgreSQL Meet-up Berlin March hosted by Zalando (Matthias Adler, Ilya Kosmodemiansky, Polina Bungina)
- 2023-10-10 DevOps Finland: APEC - How to ensure your application is operated properly? (Uri Savelchev)
- 2023-07-06 DroidCon Berlin: Code metrics for your app (Alexey Agapitov)
- 2023-07-06 DroidCon Berlin: A Small Leak Can Sink A Great Ship (Ayushi Gupta)
- 2023-05-15 SLOconf 2023: Driving engineering priorities with SLOs on critical business operations (Andrew Howden)
- 2023-05-14 Women Tech Global Conference: Beauty Meets Fashion: Challenges in Extending E-Commerce beyond Fashion (Joyce Chen)
- 2022-12-06 AWS re:Invent 2022 - Store features across teams with Amazon Feature Store, feat. Zalando (AIM339)
- 2022-10-25 SREcon22 EMEA: Meatbag Systems: How Our Reliability Culture & Practice Evolved over Time (Andrew Howden, Salome Santos) (description)
- 2022-10-25 SREcon22 EMEA: Statistics for Engineers (Heinrich Hartmann) (description)
- 2022-10-20 Building Scalable Frontends at Zalando (David Jones)
- 2022-10-20 Kubernetes Native Change Data Capture (Conor Gallagher)
- 2022-10-20 Architecting Backends to Service Millions of RPS (Conor Gallagher)
- 2022-10-18 DataTalks.Club: Machine Learning Workflows in Production (Krzysztof Szafanek)
- 2022-10-07 Mathematical Optimization Meets Machine Learning to Optimize Stock Distribution (Amin Jorati, Francisco Madaleno, Stephanie Ziegenhagen)
- 2022-10-06 Challenges in Large Scale Article Discounting (Torsten Gellert)
- 2022-06-22 DevOpsCon Berlin: Zalando's Quest for Operating 10K Micro Services (Heinrich Hartmann)
- 2022-06-17 WomenTech 2022: Tech and Fashion: How to use Machine Learning to create personalised shopping experiences (Tian Su)
- 2022-06-17 WomenTech 2022: Get Prepared: The Hiring Process at Zalando (Stanislava Zapototska)
- 2022-06-14 Elasticsearch Berlin meetup: Enriching E-Commerce Search with Elasticsearch 8's k-Nearest Neighbours (Girish Chandrashekar)
- 2022-05-24 AWS Finland meetup: CloudFront authentication and Lambda@Edge (Uri Savelchev)
- 2022-05-09 SLOconf 2022: Operation Based SLOs (Pedro Alves)
- 2022-05-03 Platform Engineering webinar: Cloud native developer experience at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2021-11-10 Droidcon Berlin: Extend your Reality with AR (Anitha Manikandan)
- 2021-11-10 Droidcon Berlin: Scaling App Development at Zalando (Alexey Agapitov, Volker Leck)
- 2021-10-08 UXDX EMEA 2021: Weave: Transforming the Zalando Experience (Anne Pascual)
- 2021-10-08 mobiconf: AppCraft: Lessons Learned building successful Backend Driven Mobile UI (Bj Kandel)
- 2021-10-06 P99CONF: How to Measure Latency (Heinrich Hartmann)
- 2021-09-27 Talking Kotlin #104: How Zalando Adopted Kotlin (Ole Sasse, Gregor Zeitlinger)
- 2021-09-09 Berlin GraphQL meetup: Using GraphQL to manage contributions from multiple teams (Franco Risso)
- 2021-05-17 SLOConf: The state of the Histogram (Heinrich Hartmann)
- 2021-04-15 Camunda Process Automation Forum Live: Retail (Elmar Abbasov)
- 2021-04-14 Berlin GraphQL meetup: Scaling GraphQL at Zalando (Aditya Pratap Singh, Mariano Carballal)
- 2021-04-14 AI in Retail & Marketing Virtual Summit 2021: AI in Fashion Size & Fit (Nour Karessli)
- 2021-01-21 CTO-CTO Podcast: Zalando Microservices / 20. Pioneers. (Jan Hegewald)
- 2020-10-19 NDC Oslo 2020: Data Mesh in Practice (Arif Wider, Max Schultze)
- 2020-08-18 KubeCon Europe 2020: Autoscaling at Scale: How We Manage Capacity @ Zalando (Mikkel Larsen)
- 2020-06-18 GopherCon Europe 2020 (lightning talk): Integration Testing with TestContainers-Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2020-02-27 Big Data Warsaw 2020: Presto @ Zalando (Max Schultze, Wojciech Biela, Piotr Findeisen)
- 2020-02-04 AWS This is My Architecture - Zalando: Highly Scalable Data Processing Pipeline (Saurav Verma, Peter Tilsen)
- 2020-02-02 FOSDEM 2020: PostgreSQL on K8S at Zalando: Two years in production (Alexander Kukushkin)
- 2020-01-29 HU Berlin Guest Lecture: Continuous Delivery at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2020-01-23 Go Days Berlin: Integration testing with TestContainers-Go (Nikolay Kuznetsov, Erdem Toraman) (slides
- 2020-01-20 Search Technology Meetup: Machine Learned Search - setting up a production pipeline (Maximilian Werk)
- 2020-01-20 HPI Startup Talks: How I got proselytized - from large-scale standard ERP to custom-built micro services (Jan Bartels) (YouTube)
- 2019-12-09 Helsinki JUG meetup: Integration testing with TestContainers and JUnit 5 (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2019-12-05 AWS re:Invent: How Zalando runs Kubernetes clusters at scale on AWS (Henning Jacobs) (slides, PDF)
- 2019-12-03 AWS re:Invent: Machine learning at Zalando
- 2019-12-03 AWS re:Invent: Zalando’s technology journey (Rodrigue Schaefer)
- 2019-12-04 PottJS: Learnings from 4 Years of TypeScript (Bastian Sieker)
- 2019-11-28 Scale Up 360° Better Software 2019: Simplifying Application Management in Kubernetes (Mikkel Oscar Lyderik Larsen) (slides, PDF)
- 2019-11-20 KubeCon San Diego 2019: Developing Operators with Kubernetes Operators Pythonic Framework "Kopf" (Sergey Vasilyev) (slides, PDF)
- 2019-11-13 Product Management Festival: Building Products Internal Teams Love (Mostafa Nageeb)
- 2019-11-07 OSB Open Source Day: Open Source at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-11-04 RabbitMQ Summit 2019: Monitoring & scaling based on RabbitMQ telemetry (Omar Elasfar)
- 2019-10-31 Voxxed Days Cluj Napoca: Integration and end-to-end testing with TestContainers and JUnit 5 (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2019-10-28 Haystack EU: How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Learning to Rank with Multiple Objectives (Alexey Kurennoy) (slides)
- 2019-10-24 GOTO Berlin: Why I love Kubernetes Failure Stories and you should too (Henning Jacobs) (slides)
- 2019-10-23 PostgreSQL Finland October Meetup: PostgreSQL Monitoring in Zalando (Uri Savelchev)
- 2019-10-17 Databricks Spark AI Summit: Building an AI-Powered Retail Experience with Delta Lake, Spark, and Databricks (Akhil Dhingra) (slides)
- 2019-10-17 ACID ORC, Iceberg and Delta Lake - An Overview of Table Formats for Large Scale Storage and Analytics (Michal Gancarski)
- 2019-10-16 PGConf.EU 2019: Patroni in 2019: What’s New and Future Plans (Alexander Kukushkin, Dmitry Dolgov)
- 2019-10-03 SREcon EMEA: Are we all on the same page? Let’s fix that (Luis Mineiro) (slides)
- 2019-10-03 OpenInfra Nordics: Kubernetes and Developer Experience at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-09-26 OWL Tech & Innovation Day: Why Kubernetes? Cloud Native and Developer Experience at Zalando (Henning Jacobs) (slides)
- 2019-09-10 Continuous Testing Meetup Berlin: End-to-end load testing at scale (Oliwia Zaremba)
- 2019-09-05 AWS Finland September Meetup: Using Amazon Neptune to build Fashion Knowledge Graph (Matthieu Guillermin, Uri Savelchev)
- 2019-09-05 Cloud Native Prague: Kubernetes + Python = ❤ (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-08-23 Python Pizza Night Berlin: Kubernetes operators in Python with Kopf (Sergey Vasilyev)
- 2019-07-23 Dublin Scala Meetup: Functional resource safety management in Scala (Javier Arrieta)
- 2019-07-03 Agile Testing Munich: Agile Testing @ Zalando (Jan Hegewald)
- 2019-06-26 ContainerDays Hamburg: Kubernetes Failure Stories, or: How to Crash Your Cluster (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-05-25 ContainerDays Hamburg: TestContainers + JUnit5 = elegant end-to-end tests for microservices (Nikolay Kuznetsov)
- 2019-06-20 GraphQL Conf: Compiling GraphQL to be Blazing Fast (Rui Araujo)
- 2019-06-20 Data Engineering Meetup Berlin: Nakadi SQL - SQL Engine for Streaming Queries over Nakadi Event Types (Suyash Garg)
- 2019-06-20 OpenExpo Europe Madrid: Open Source Within Corporate Walls (Hong Phuc Dang)
- 2019-06-18 MICES: Coping with the challenge of sorting large product catalogs (Cagdas Senol) (slides)
- 2019-06-13 DevOpsCon Berlin: Why we don’t use the Term DevOps: the Journey to a Product Mindset (Henning Jacobs, Mostafa Nageeb)
- 2019-06-04 Destination AARhus: Why we don’t use the term DevOps (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-05-21 KubeCon Barcelona: Es operator: Building an Elasticsearch Operator From the Bottom Up (Mikkel Larsen) (slides)
- 2019-05-21 KubeCon Barcelona: Kubernetes Failure Stories (Henning Jacobs) (slides)
- 2019-05-20 DATA Festival 2019: Using ML to fashion the business of online retailing (Kshitij Kumar)
- 2019-05-17 PGDay Italy: PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious! (Dmitry Dolgov)
- 2019-05-17 CodingSerbia: Are we all on the same page? Let’s fix that (Luis Mineiro)
- 2019-05-16 CodingSerbia: Alerting, Monitoring and All That Jazz (Luis Mineiro)
- 2019-05-16 CodingSerbia: Tackling the Complexity in the Middle of the Platform (Jovan Vidic)
- 2019-05-15 TEQnation: Platform Design and Migration in the Real World (Mariya Mladenova)
- 2019-05-15 JAX DevOps London: Optimizing Kubernetes Resource Requests/Limits for Cost-Efficiency and Latency (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-05-07 QCon: Building and running applications at scale in Zalando (Pamela Canchanya)
- 2019-05-01 Strata Data: Insights From Engineering Europe’s Largest Marketing Platform For Fashion (Dirk Petzoldt)
- 2019-04-23 GAIA: Putting Data Science in Production (Mikio Braun)
- 2019-04-18 CNCF End User SIG-DX: Developer Experience at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-04-02 Codemotion Amsterdam: First Steps As A Lead (Dan Persa)
- 2019-04-02 microXchg Berlin 2019: Operating Elasticsearch in Kubernetes (Mikkel Larsen, Oliver Trosien)
- 2019-03-21 Data Engineering Meetup Berlin: Data Infrastructure as Code (Michal Gancarski) (slides)
- 2019-03-13 DevOps Gathering 2019: Ensuring Kubernetes Cost Efficiency across (many) Clusters (Henning Jacobs) (slides)
- 2019-02-11 Hamburg Meetup: Kubernetes Failure Stories (Henning Jacobs)
- 2019-02-03 FOSDEM: Nakadi: Streaming Events for 100s of Teams (Lionel Montrieux)
- 2019-01-23 Handelsblatt Strategisches IT-Management: Developer Experience at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2018-12-11 KubeCon North America: Building your own PostgreSQL-as-a-Service on Kubernetes (Alexander Kukushkin)
- 2018-12-05 DevOpsCon Munich 2018: Running Kubernetes in Production: A Million Ways to Crash Your Cluster (Henning Jacobs) (slides)
- 2018-11-15 LISA18: Modern HTTP Routing (Skipper) (Sandor Szuecs)
- 2018-11-08 HighLoad++ Moscow 2018: Optimizing Kubernetes Resource Requests/Limits for Cost-Efficiency and Latency (Henning Jacobs) (slides)
- 2018-10-08 mobiconf: ModelDiff state based UI rendering in iOS (Bj Kandel)
- 2018-09-28 Agile Greece Summit 2018: Organized Autonomy: Cracking the Paradox (Eric Bowman)
- 2018-09-25 DevOps Lisbon Meetup 2018: Kubernetes at Zalando (Jannis Rake-Revelant)
- 2018-09-07 Container Camp UK 2018: Running Kubernetes in Production: A Million Ways to Crash Your Cluster (Henning Jacobs)
- 2018-07-24 Data Engineering Meetup Berlin: Enabling Machine Learning at Zalando (Eric Bowman)
- 2018-05-04 KubeCon Copenhagen 2018: Continuously Deliver your Kubernetes Infrastructure (Mikkel Larsen)
- 2018-03-28 DevOps Gathering 2018: CI/CD at Zalando (Joao Santos)
- 2018-03-13 JavaLand 2018: Resiliente Microservices mit Spring Boot und Failsafe (Malte Pickhan)
- 2018-02-04 FOSDEM: Automating style guide documentation (Ferit Topcu)
- 2018-02-03 FOSDEM: Nakadi Event Broker (Lionel Montrieux)
- 2018-02-03 FOSDEM: Blue elephant on-demand: Postgres + Kubernetes (Oleksii Kliukin, Jan Mussler)
- 2018-01-24 Zalando Dortmund Meetup: Kubernetes Deployments: A “Hands-Off” Approach (Rodrigo Reis)
- 2017-12-15 KubeCon Austin 2017: Kubernetes on AWS: Practices & Opinions (Arun Gupta, Raffaele Di Fazio)
- 2017-11-29 AWS re:invent 2017: Mastering Kubernetes on AWS (Arun Gupta, Raffaele Di Fazio)
- 2017-10-11 code.talks 2017: The Recipe For Scalable Frontends (Maximilian Fellner, Dan Persa)
- 2017-10-04 Kubernetes on AWS at Zalando - First Kubernetes & CNCF meetup in Finland (Michael Duergner)
- 2017-09-28 Large Scale Kubernetes on AWS at Europe’s Leading Online Fashion Platform - AWS Tech Community Days Cologne (Henning Jacobs)
- 2017-07-19 Automatic infrastructure for Kubernetes ingress in AWS - Berlin Docker Meetup (Sandor Szuecs)
- 2017-07-12 Docker Hamburg Meetup: Large Scale Kubernetes on AWS at Europe’s Leading Online Fashion Platform (Henning Jacobs)
- 2017-07-12 Docker Hamburg Meetup: PostgreSQL on Kubernetes (Jan Mussler)
- 2017-06-15 Berlin Buzzwords: The modern architecture of search (Alaa Elhadba, Mikio Braun)
- 2017-05-18 Berlin Kubernetes Meetup: From AWS/STUPS to Kubernetes on AWS at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2017-05-09 Berlin AWS User Group: Kubernetes on AWS at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2017-04-13 CNCF End User Committee: Kubernetes at Zalando (Henning Jacobs)
- 2017-04-03 “Kubernetes on AWS at Europe’s Leading Online Fashion Platform” on YouTube (Henning Jacobs)
- 2017-03-27 Kubernetes on AWS at Europe’s Leading Online Fashion Platform (Henning Jacobs)
- 2016-12-11 OSMC 2016: ZMON: Zalando's OS approach to monitoring in the cloud and DCs (Jan Mussler)
- 2016-11-20 PyMunich: Connexion, API-First Framework for Python (Joao Santos)
- 2016-11-15 GOTO 2016: The Frontend Taboo: a Story of Full Stack Microservices (Luis Mineiro, Moritz Grauel)
- 2016-08-08 GOTO 2016: From Monolith to Microservices at Zalando (Rodrigue Schaefer)
- 2016-05-31 Atmosphere 2016: ZMON: Zalando's OS approach to monitoring in the cloud and DCs (Jan Mussler)
- 2016-05-21 PyData Berlin 2016: Data integration in the world of microservices (Valentine Gogichashvili)
- 2016-05-12 Plan B: Service to Service Authentication with OAuth (Henning Jacobs)
- 2016-05-10 London Microservices Day: Data integration in the world of microservices (Fabian Wollert, Valentine Gogichashvili)
- 2015-10-29 AWS Enterprise Webday: STUPS – Eine Cloud Infrastruktur für autonome Teams (Henning Jacobs)
- 2015-09-03 DevOps Meetup Dublin: ZMON: Monitoring Zalando's Engineering Platform (Jan Mussler)
- 2015-05-26 JBCNConf: Auto-scaling your API: Insights and Tips from the Zalando Team (Sean Patrick Floyd, Luis Mineiro)
- 2015-06-01 DevOps Con 2015: Radical Agility with Autonomous Teams and Microservices in the Cloud (Jan Loffler, Henning Jacobs) (YouTube)