2. 2
~ 5.4billion EUR
revenue 2018
> 300
million
visits
per
month
~ 14,000
employees in
Europe
> 80%
of visits via
mobile devices
> 28
million
active customers
> 400,000
product choices
> 2,000
brands
17
countries
as of June 2019
ZALANDO AT A GLANCE
8. Most open source code can be used in Zalando
projects, but everyone has a responsibility to ensure
that we respect and comply with the licenses, and
that we only adopt mature projects
11. 11
✓ ✓✓✓✓
Cloud native technologies empower organizations to build and run
scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as
public, private, and hybrid clouds.
CLOUD NATIVE
12. 108 Companies in the End User Community
Plus 14 non-public members
13. 13
CONTRIBUTING UPSTREAM
• We encourage contributions upstream
• Don’t share confidential information
• Code/non-code contributions: all sanctioned and
encouraged as part of employment at Zalando
• Only sign whitelisted CLAs
20. 20
EXTERNAL DNS
Application to manage DNS
records via Kubernetes objects
Part of Kubernetes organization.
184 contributors
github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
28. 28
BEING COMPLIANT
• MIT license
• Required files
• GitHub.com workflow
• Copyright and ownership
29. 29
GOOD PRACTICES
• Code of Conduct
• Clear expectations
• Documentation
• "good first issue"
• Promote!
30. 30
WE WANT OUR OSS PROJECTS TO BE
• High-quality
• Well documented
• Secure and compliant
• Actively maintained
• Beloved
• Used by the broader community
32. “Empowerment of individuals is a key part of
what makes open source work, since in the end,
innovations tend to come from
small groups, not from large, structured efforts”
Tim O’Reilly
33. 33
OPEN SOURCE & MORE
Open Source at Zalando
opensource.zalando.com
More Zalando Tech Talks
github.com/zalando/public-presentations