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.
Continuous Performance Monitoring for PHP - The tale of Blackfire at trivago
We’re a data-driven company. At trivago we love measuring everything. Collecting metrics and making decisions based on them comes naturally to all our engineers. This workflow also applies to performance, which is key to succeed in the modern Internet.
How we got rid of 5k lines of our bash release process
When I joined trivago a year ago we had problems with our releases. Read how we were able to switch from our bash release process to a new one.
Accessibility at trivago
How accessibility came from being neglected to being an important part of what we do at trivago
Guerilla advertisement for creative thinkers
Sometimes advertisements just have to be bold. Especially when your goal is to hire creative thinkers, why not give them something to… think about!? That was our goal when we planned a new marketing campaign for Software Engineers.
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trivago Tech Camp 2017
At the end of August 2017, ten students set foot in the trivago headquarters in Düsseldorf to be part of the first ever trivago Tech Camp. Two weeks were packed with real-world challenges, guest lectures, Q&A sessions, and tons of other opportunities to learn. In the end, a lot of working software was delivered.
PHPUnit Code Sprint at trivago Offices, Oct. 13th/14th
trivago will host a PHPUnit Code Sprint in mid-October to support this crucial part of the PHP ecosystem. Sebastian Bergmann, the creator of PHPUnit, will be there to coordinate the developers’ efforts and to answer questions.
Sponsoring Webpack
trivago has decided to sponsor Webpack with a monthly contribution of $10,000 ($120,000/year). We hope that this will help to secure the continued innovation of the project.
CSS done right - Post RTLCSS
Our first right-to-left platform was released in 2014. We had developed a solution to generate right-to-left CSS with Sass mixins and variables as we have described in a blog article. We used this approach for nearly 3 years but recently migrated the right-to-left CSS generation from pre-processing to post-processing with RTLCSS. With this article I would like to share the reasons for the migration as well as our experiences and lessons learned.