The date slowly approached and then it just happened. After almost four years I left Zalando end of March. I joined Zalando as Senior Engineer in the search team. In this role I helped migrate the search systems from the old monolith (Jimmy) to a microservice based architecture. In those times, microservices where meant literally and a lot of them were created. The system was based on SolrCloud and basically a home-grown Kafka like messaging system based on SQS and DynamoDB. A lot of assumpti...
