Posts about Open Source

When faced with the challenge to store, retrieve and process small or large amounts of data, structured query languages are typically not far away. These languages serve as a nice abstraction between the goal that is to be achieved and how it is actually done. The list of successful applications of this extra layer is long. MySQL users could switch from MyISAM to InnoDB or use new algorithms like Multi-Range-Read without a change to their application.

Ten participants from nine countries, who have never met before, are assigned to teams to work on real-world projects. Can they be successful? We ran this experiment in September 2018 on the trivago Campus, and were blown away by the results.

When migrating your data to new technologies, validation of the data becomes challenging as your data structures might change. Rebase tries to make this easier while also giving your more flexibility on your data.

trivago believes that a sustainable Open Source ecosystem benefits developers, companies, and users alike.

A while ago we decided to Open Source our JavaScript framework, Melody, which we have been using since 2016. We designed Melody to be fast, memory efficient and to be flexible enough for the future.

On 11th of November 2017 trivago hosted a Hackathon at NASDAQ’s MarketSite in New York. The winners were awarded with a trip through Europe to visit trivago’s offices as well as conference tickets for The Next Web, Amsterdam. We invited the winners to our office, where we got to the chance to interview them about their Hackathon experience.

Ever heard about Microservices? Those tiny litte pieces of code that are used to split a big pile of magic into smaller pieces of magic? Well, they’re not that tiny after all and require lots of preliminary work to use them properly. Have a look at this post to hear about my journey of splitting an existing monolith written in PHP up into several microservices written in Go.

Hackathons! That’s where you feel super excited about creating something interesting, or useful, or just entertaining. They are a great way to encourage creativity and teamwork. Recently, trivago hosted a Python Hackathon in collaboration with the Python Usergroup Düsseldorf. The event was a full success!

We were not as happy as we could be with out Cucumber test reporting solution - so we decided to build a new and shiny one from scratch.