Coding agents
Agentic Engineering at Zalando: a snapshot
Our short summary of Zalando’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Engineers struggled to experiment with LLMs across providers and track usage costs.
Solution
Created a LiteLLM API proxy with pre/post hooks for cost tracking, model retirement, and prompt‑caching injection, plus a chat UI and CLI, running on tiny pods.
Supports 2k MAU with six small pods
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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