The CTO Podcast with Fexingo · 2026-08-30 · 9 min
In this episode, Lucas and Luna dig into how Zalando, the European online fashion retailer, reduced checkout failures by 45 percent during peak traffic events. They walk through the architectural changes - moving from a monolithic checkout service to a set of purpose-built services, implementing a distributed saga pattern for order processing, and using a combination of Redis and Postgres for state management. They also discuss the monitoring and chaos engineering practices that helped Zalando anticipate problems before they hit users. If you're thinking about breaking up a monolith or making your e-commerce stack more resilient, this episode gives you a concrete playbook. #Zalando #CheckoutOptimization #EcommerceArchitecture #Microservices #ChaosEngineering #DistributedSystems #SagaPattern #Redis #Postgres #PeakTraffic #ResilienceEngineering #TechLeadership #BusinessPodcast #FexingoBusiness #Podcast #CTO #EngineeringLeadership #Architecture Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo
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