在 Zalando 运营工程论文阅读小组

In September 2024 a friendly message in our internal Java guild chat led to the formation of the Engineering Papers guild born out of sheer curiosity and excitement about reading and discussing papers together.

2024 年 9 月，我们内部 Java 公会聊天中的一条友好消息促成了 Engineering Papers 公会的形成，这源于对一起阅读和讨论论文的纯粹好奇和兴奋。

The Engineering Papers guild at Zalando recently celebrated its first anniversary as we completed one year of monthly in-person meetups - a big feat for the group! Throughout the year we have evolved and improved gradually to make the meetups more engaging and valuable for everyone who attends while learning a lot ourselves on the way. Today, we want to share how the journey has been and celebrate one year of papers, discussions and valuable insights which may come in handy for you if you are deciding to start such a group within your organisation.

Zalando 的 Engineering Papers 公会最近庆祝了它的第一个周年纪念，因为我们完成了为期一年的每月面对面聚会——对这个团体来说是一个了不起的成就！全年我们逐步演进和改进，使聚会对所有参加者更具吸引力和价值，同时我们在过程中学到了很多。今天，我们想分享这段旅程，并庆祝一年的论文、讨论和宝贵见解，这些见解如果你决定在你的组织内启动这样的团体可能会派上用场。

Why we wanted to read academic papers

我们为什么想要阅读学术论文

This StackOverflow article groups reasons to read papers into three categories:

这篇 StackOverflow 文章 将阅读论文的原因分为三个类别：

“surveying history, the future of programming and the map of giants’ shoulders”

“勘测历史、编程的未来以及巨人肩膀的地图”

For us, the primary motivation was to peek under the hood of abstraction in software. We work with several tools at work - web frameworks like Node.js, runtimes like JVM, databases like Postgres and DynamoDB, platforms like Kubernetes - all of which abstract a set of features implemented using lower-level primitives and in turn enable developers to build higher levels of abstraction.

对我们来说，主要动机是窥探软件抽象的幕后。我们在工作中使用多种工具——像 Node.js 这样的 web 框架，像 JVM 这样的运行时，像 Postgres 和 DynamoDB 这样的数据库，像 Kubernetes 这样的平台——所有这些都抽象了一组使用低级原语实现的特性，反过来使开发者能够构建更高级的抽象。

Papers from early days of the Internet are special in a way. They often talk about technologies and tools that have become foundations of modern day computing. Take Time, Clocks and the Ordering...