Mobile Developer Productivity Engineering at Europe's Largest Online Fashion Store
summary
Zalando frames Developer Productivity Engineering as an evidence-driven program that modularizes the app (from about 60 modules to 400 modules in a year), instruments build observability (logging and analytics from 40,000 builds/week), migrates to Gradle Enterprise and parallel tests to shave ~5 minutes off builds, and shortens releases from three weeks to a 2‑week release cadence. The program enforces a 10% ongoing tech‑debt payback, invests in cloud IDEs and automated QA, and measures impact with DORA/SPACE metrics.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00App landscape overview
- 2:53Defining developer experience
- 7:39Productivity research models
- 12:50Zalando's productivity model
- 19:19Optimizing infrastructure
- 29:47Sustainable value delivery
- 35:31Enabling flow state
- 44:14Executing the strategy
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