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In our article “How Work Is Really Done at ABOUT YOU Tech”, we promised that you would get to know our teams and processes better. You’ve already met our CRM te…

Feb 09, 2021 2 min read

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Meet the Team: Business Intelligence

Solveig Petersen

Oct 23, 2020 8 min read

PEOPLE

Meet Janina…

Our EDITED Development Team develops the back- and frontend for the desktop, tablet, and mobile version of EDITED, the online shop of our own label. In addition…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jul 17, 2020 1 min read

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Meet Philipp…

Our Shop Applications Team constantly improves the ABOUT YOU App, Mobile Website, and Desktop Website. These big-scale products are each visited by over 15 mill…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jun 30, 2020 1 min read

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Tabletop exercises

Every single person at a certain point in their life has to deal with some sort of an incident. Be it a flat car tire, wounded arm, earthquake or a computer vir…

It’s Friday afternoon, you are finishing some week’s last tasks thinking what kind of beer to drink in a few hours. But then your colleague walks in with their …

May 28, 2020 5 min read

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MacOS Forensics DIY Style

The vision of a company and the internally lived culture play an increasingly important role for applicants and especially the satisfaction of employees. Especi…

Apr 15, 2020 12 min read

PEOPLE

Do you want an award-winning employer?

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 23, 2020 4 min read

PEOPLE

Meet the TEAM: CRM TECH

In our recent article “How Work Is Really Done at ABOUT YOU Tech” we promised that you will get to know our teams & processes better. Today is the day! We invit…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Oct 14, 2019 6 min read

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The ABOUT YOU Academy: Boost your personal development & skillset

Supporting our employees with regular internal training sessions

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 27, 2019 4 min read

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8 Undeniable Reasons to love code.talks

There is a large selection of different developer conferences. Since you can’t go to all of them, for time, money or whatever reason, you have to decide which c…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 19, 2019 4 min read

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How we do Retrospectives at ABOUT YOU (Part 2)

In our last article, we introduced our way of constantly improving in a customized way and introduced our Lean Process Development team shortly. Now we’d like t…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jun 14, 2019 10 min read

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How we do retrospectives at ABOUT YOU (Part 1)

Agility as the ability to respond to change in a fast way and adapt processes is at the core of our companies value system. ABOUT YOU is a tech company at heart…

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 24, 2019 4 min read

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How Work Is Really Done at ABOUT YOU Tech

When one thinks of ABOUT YOU, the first things that come to one’s mind are the online store, clothing and the latest trends. Yet, we are way more than just anot…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 30, 2019 4 min read

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How to make it into info sec

Hello reader, if you’ve just started your first job in information security or you are looking for one, this material will definitely answer some of your questi…

Vol. 9: Oliver, Software Developer Backbone

Apr 29, 2019 5 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU: How automated testing and continuous integration help us to ensure system…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 02, 2019 6 min read

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Hamburg1! and other terrible password habits

It’s not big news that password breaches happen all the time. Just recently we’ve seen one of the biggest password dumps posted online. According to [1] the two…

In the age of digitization, it’s all about being open and sharing knowledge, isn’t it? As a true tech company driven by the passion to develop the best product …

Mar 18, 2019 2 min read

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Symfony Meetup at ABOUT YOU

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 12, 2019 1 min read

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Career Change? Become a Developer @ABOUT YOU!

As a company, we are open to career changers, who want to become developers. It’s important for us that people are motivated, committed and want to learn new th…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 06, 2019 6 min read

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Lord of the Patch — Story of the PatchBot

Automated patch management using serverless technologies

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jan 29, 2019 6 min read

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Every thursday it’s all “About Hacking”

“Hacking” is one of those fields that’s somewhat a mystery even to most people working in IT. To get a better feeling for the importance of the topic and how ce…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jan 07, 2019 3 min read

EVENTS

Being Headless but not thoughtless @code.talks 2018

Many of the 1.600 code.talks visitors shared the interest in networking and learning about the latest industry news when they attended the latest event on Octob…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 20, 2018 3 min read

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Get a glimpse of the universe of frameworks: ABOUT YOU developer Harminder introduces his…

This year, Germany’s largest developer conference once again focused on the exchange of knowledge on topics — One of the 130 speakers at this year’s code.talks …

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 05, 2018 5 min read

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Join Germany’s largest developer class reunion — an exciting summary of the code.talks

Four weeks ago, the code.talks took place on October 18th and 19th in Hamburg. It’s Germany’s largest developer conference and even one of Europe’s largest conf…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 21, 2018 3 min read

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Let’s meet, let’s talk, let’s CODE @ code.talks 2018

ABOUT YOU’s developer teams are excited to attend and engage in the code.talks — Germany’s largest developer conference — which takes place on October 18th and …

ABOUT YOU TECH

Oct 17, 2018 1 min read

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It’s time for a HACKATHON, when Pizza and Code come together

Getting to know the colleagues and strong teamwork skills in general are two points we encourage a lot at ABOUT YOU, because we think it helps creating a satisf…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 24, 2018 3 min read

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The ABOUT YOU Desktop Shop Version 4.1

Last months, in July 2018, ABOUT YOU launched a completely new Desktop Shop Version 4.1 for all customers in all markets. We spoke with both the Product Lead an…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 16, 2018 5 min read

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Easy Relocation and a warm welcome by ABOUT YOU Roomies: How developer Filip likes getting out of…

Vol. 8: Filip — Developer, Mobile Unit

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 28, 2018 5 min read

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LaravelStorm

Optimize PhpStorm for your Laravel projects

Jörg Basedow

May 09, 2018 5 min read

EVENTS

A Meetup with Insight: Live Q&A Session with Laravel Creator Taylor Otwell

In our last blogpost, we introduced our bi-weekly happening Tech Talks. Every month, we also host one or two Meetups. We open our office spaces for existing tec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 23, 2018 4 min read

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Sharing knowledge & exploring tech topics beyond daily business — the ABOUT YOU Tech Talks

ABOUT YOU is a tech company driven by the passion to develop the best products. Around one third of our staff are developers meaning in numbers 150 out of 450 e…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 28, 2018 2 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU: The challenges of a tech lead’s onboarding process and how a strong team helps…

Vol. 7: André — Tech Lead, ABOUT YOU BACKBONE Unit

ABOUT YOU TECH

Feb 23, 2018 6 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU: The varied job of a QA Test Engineer at ABOUT YOU — From automated testings to …

Inside ABOUT YOU: The varied job of a QA Test Engineer at ABOUT YOU — From automated testings to empathizing with the customer

ABOUT YOU TECH

Feb 13, 2018 7 min read

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New Challenges, New Positions: Searching for ABOUT YOU’s first Tech Evangelist

The tech-department is ABOUT YOU’s heart and soul, therefore, it’s continuously growing. The tech teams already amount for one third of the 450 employees — stil…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jan 31, 2018 4 min read

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MOVE shortlisted for Xing New Work Award — you can vote now!

We’re happy to announce that we’re shortlisted with our organizational model MOVE for the Xing New Work Award 2018! The award rewards innovative pioneer project…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jan 25, 2018 1 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU — Mehrdad Backbone Unit

Get to know our growing family. Follow our Inside ABOUT YOU blog series and catch a brief glimpse of the people behind Germany’s most exciting e-commerce projec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 20, 2017 5 min read

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Google Home, Alexa and connecting employees at ABOUT YOU

Why our second hackathon was awesome:

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 07, 2017 5 min read

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Introducing the ABOUT YOU CLOUD

eCommerce Infrastructure as a Service

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 27, 2017 2 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU — Kirill Checkout team

Get to know our growing family. Follow our Inside ABOUT YOU blog series and catch a brief glimpse of the people behind Germany’s most exciting e-commerce projec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 24, 2017 6 min read

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XGBoost gone wild — Predicting returns with extreme gradient boosting

This article describes what kind of machine learning is used in one of Germany’s leading fashion e-Commerce’s to help with decision making and a brief explanati…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Oct 11, 2017 8 min read

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The Day Our MongoDB Went Down

Disclaimer: This post deals with some of the issues we encountered using and debugging MongoDB instances. We still use MongoDB and we still feel it’s a great so…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Oct 05, 2017 12 min read

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How to connect Zeplin with Jira

First of all: There is no solution yet which works completely perfect for us. But we found a workaround to have a quite good overview of the layouts in zeplin w…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 20, 2017 4 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU

Get to know our growing family. Follow our Inside ABOUT YOU blog series and catch a brief glimpse of the people behind Germany’s most exciting e-commerce projec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 09, 2017 5 min read

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Frontend Stack at ABOUT YOU Desktop Unit

Alexander Kochergin is working for ABOUT YOU since 2015 . He is a Senior Frontend Developer at our Desktop Unit and an expert in frontend technologies.

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jul 26, 2017 4 min read

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Our goodread for the weekend: About strange Bugs and 30 percent less visibility

Pascal, Head of Marketing Technology & SEO at ABOUT YOU, reports about strange SEO bugs and illustrates reasons and a diagnostic approach that led to the strugg…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jul 07, 2017 1 min read

EVENTS

code.talks Commerce Special 2017 Exclusive with Ulf Kirsten

An interview with Ulf Kirsten — Director of Software Engineering at Rocket Labs GmbH & Co.KG

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jun 30, 2017 1 min read

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code.talks Commerce Special 2017 Exclusive with Boris Lokschin

Spryker offers an advanced e-commerce framework and allows companies to set up and change a range of customer touchpoints at speed, enabling permanent adaptatio…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jun 22, 2017 1 min read

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ABOUT PREDICTION

Finding the right balance among different methodologies to deliver the best recommendations to your customers.

Hani Alhammami

Jun 15, 2017 4 min read

EVENTS

code.talks Commerce Special 2017 Exclusive with Miriam Neubauer

An interview with Miriam Neubauer — Co-Founder at heycater!

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jun 14, 2017 2 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU

Get to know our growing family. Follow our Inside ABOUT YOU blog series and catch a brief glimpse of the people behind Germany’s most exciting e-commerce projec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jun 08, 2017 5 min read

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Retention Strategies in Mobile E-Commerce

A quick look at the code.talks Commerce Special presentation held by Christoph Sachsenhausen — Director, Product Mobile.

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 29, 2017 1 min read

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ABOUT YOU’s Next Steps to Building an Inclusive Fashion Community

At ABOUT YOU we don’t see ourselves as just another online fashion shop. There are many other companies out there who dictate what to wear and how to be in styl…

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 22, 2017 6 min read

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Talking about good software development with Sebastian Betz — CTO, ABOUT YOU

Sebastian is responsible for Tech and Product on the ABOUT YOU management board. Here, he talks to Alexander Graf of Spryker about what it actually means to be …

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 16, 2017 17 min read

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Rethinking Fashion E-Commerce

A look back at the code.talks Commerce Special presentation held by Stefan Tobel, Director — Shop, and Robert Kilian, Head of Development — Shop.

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 12, 2017 1 min read

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Introducing: MOVE

Our own organizational model for speed & flexibility

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 11, 2017 6 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU

Get to know our growing family. Follow our Inside ABOUT YOU blog series and catch a brief glimpse of the people behind Germany’s most exciting e-commerce projec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 11, 2017 9 min read

EVENTS

code.talks Commerce Special 2017 Exclusive with Kristin Baumann

An Interview with Kristin Baumann of HomeToGo, Berlin

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 08, 2017 2 min read

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Making Big Data Work for You

Perhaps you are familiar with Excel sheets (.csv, .xls) and how unwieldy they become when the dataset grows to a certain point. We’ve decided to optimize our pr…

Marcel Domke

May 02, 2017 6 min read

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From Prototype to Production

Adapting workflows to fit teams and their products — Christian Flack

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 21, 2017 7 min read

EVENTS

ABOUT CREATIVITY: Our First Hackathon

March 31st, 2017 — Devs team up to flex their collective minds and solve interesting problems.

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 13, 2017 3 min read

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Inside ABOUT YOU

Get to know our growing family. Follow our Inside ABOUT YOU blog series and catch a brief glimpse of the people behind Germany’s most exciting e-commerce projec…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 11, 2017 6 min read

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How to build a future-oriented IT and e-commerce organization

Kassenzone interview with Sebastian Betz, co-founder and CEO technology at ABOUT YOU

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 05, 2017 1 min read

EVENTS

The Place to Be for Developers of the E-Commerce Industry: code.talks commerce special 2017

On April 27th and 28th 2017, ABOUT YOU invites the developer’s scene into the CineStar at the KulturBrauerei Berlin for discussing the most important topics of …

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 04, 2017 1 min read

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Varnish — A Caching Love Story

Author: Razvan Grigore

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 20, 2017 9 min read

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We level up with Laracasts

Video tutorials for developers are boring most of the time? Laracasts prove you are wrong!

ABOUT YOU TECH

Feb 15, 2017 1 min read

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Roboter-Workshop bei ABOUT YOU: Hello my name is Dash, I speak HTML, C++, JavaScript, Python & XML

Die zunehmende Digitalisierung ist einer der primären Gesellschaftstrends des 21. Jahrhunderts, höchste Zeit, dass wir auch den Nachwuchs früh genug auf den Umg…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 26, 2016 1 min read

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Grüezi und Grüß Gott!

Es ist soweit: Die ABOUT YOU App für Österreich und die Schweiz ist seit dieser Woche live.

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 23, 2016 1 min read

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Der Wechsel von Photoshop zu Sketch — Ein Ratgeber in 7 Schritten

Sich von einigermaßen bewährten Werkzeugen zu lösen, fällt einem manchmal nicht ganz leicht. Gerade wenn man über 10 Jahre hinweg immer neue Instrumente ausprob…

ABOUT YOU TECH

May 03, 2016 4 min read

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YOU&IDOL goes mobile

Das Shop-Konzept von ABOUT YOU bietet seinen Nutzern dank integriertem User-Generated-Content ein interaktives, inspirierendes Shoppingerlebnis.

ABOUT YOU TECH

Apr 13, 2016 2 min read

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Bereitstellung eines dauerhaft funktionierenden Shops — automatisierte Oberflächentests bei ABOUT…

Autoren: Torsten Franz und Nils Hoyer

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 14, 2016 4 min read

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#DevCamp16 Recap: Agile Development und die Bedeutung der Start-up-Größe für Mitarbeiter

Wer schon einmal eine gute Beratung beim Einkaufen genossen hat, der weiß worauf es ankommt: Als Kunden wollen wir möglichst schnell und ohne große Erklärung ge…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Feb 10, 2016 2 min read

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„Jedes Teil dein Style“ — Personalisierte Beratung mit ArangoDB

ABOUT YOU TECH

Jan 04, 2016 2 min read

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Reducing points of friction in the sales process

Autoren: Carina Bittihn & Linda Dettmann

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 22, 2015 3 min read

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ABOUT Mobile: Under the hood Part 1/3.A robust application structure for ionic apps

Autor: Robert Merten

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 15, 2015 8 min read

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Same same but different — unsere Interpretation agiler Entwicklung

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 27, 2015 6 min read

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About being smart: Sprintplanung mit Added Value Calculation

In der folgenden Playlist findet ihr ab sofort die diesjährigen code.talks-Sessions aus Saal 1:

ABOUT YOU TECH

Nov 23, 2015 5 min read

EVENTS

code.talks 2015: Die Videos

ABOUT YOU TECH

Oct 29, 2015 1 min read

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ABOUT Mobile: Lessons learned

Autor: Christoph Sachsenhausen

ABOUT YOU TECH

Oct 16, 2015 5 min read

EVENTS

code.talks 2015: Talks und Slides der Speaker

Die code.talks, das größte Klassentreffen der Entwicklerszene, ging in diesem Jahr in die fünfte Runde!

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 30, 2015 3 min read

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Das könnte dir auch gefallen! Recommendations als Shoppingberater

Autor: Martin Schulz

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 25, 2015 5 min read

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Ticket Police: Mehr Effizienz im Sprint

Autor: Florian Weigang

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 10, 2015 5 min read

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Wie wir 75% Festplattenspeicher einsparen konnten:MongoDB und TokuMX im Vergleich

Autor: Berend Kapelle

ABOUT YOU TECH

Sep 04, 2015 5 min read

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ABOUT YOU limited deals: lessons learned

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 28, 2015 7 min read

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ABOUT being fast: Unsere Tech Team-Strukturen & -Prozesse

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 26, 2015 4 min read

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ABOUT YOU mit personalisiertem Header: Der Shop mit Deinem Namen

Für unser neues Video-Format “ABOUT Developer” tauschen sich Sebastian Betz (Mitgründer & Co-CEO) und Muschda Sherzada (Corporate Communications) über neue Shop…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 06, 2015 1 min read

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About New: Neues Format, neue Features

ABOUT YOU TECH

Aug 03, 2015 1 min read

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Reinvention Pt. II: Dein Feed, App-Integration & Provisionsmodell

Autor: Patrick Michelberger

ABOUT YOU TECH

Mar 05, 2015 2 min read

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advent.js: Javascript User Gruppe zu Besuch bei ABOUT YOU

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 17, 2014 1 min read

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Node.js & Ruby SDKs veröffentlicht

Autor: Patrick Michelberger

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 08, 2014 2 min read

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Von der Theorie in die Praxis: Lean Start-up-Weekend bei ABOUT YOU

Wie können Studenten einen praxisbezogenen Zugang zu wichtigen Fragestellungen aus dem E-Commerce bekommen? Diese Frage stellten sich Dr. Judith Gentz von der F…

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 05, 2014 1 min read

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Tech-Stack: We

Autor: Patrick Michelberger

ABOUT YOU TECH

Dec 01, 2014 1 min read

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ABOUT YOU-Feed: reinvented