The German e-commerce company has adapted the concept from Thoughtworks to track emerging technologies across its engineering teams.
In a world where Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a catalog of more than 200 cloud services, and there is an open-source solution to almost any engineering problem, how do you keep track of what technology is being brought into the organization, and ensure that engineers learn from each other’s experiences?
While many engineering orgs will have a strict technology selection process that prioritizes a shared set of languages and services for consistency and maintainability reasons, Zalando, the European fashion and lifestyle e-commerce company, wanted to embrace a collaborative approach that enables 2,000+ developers to make responsible technology choices in the open.
