We built a reactive pipeline to move almost a quarter billion database records to AWS and to build a reactive and serverless pipeline. This is the story of the lessons we learned along the way working with Kinesis and Lambdas
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.
How the Android development team came up with a new architecture based on clean principles and what we learnt along the way.
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.
Tackling hard problems is like going on an adventure. Solving a technical challenge feels like finding a hidden treasure. Want to go treasure hunting with us?
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Filtering is an important way to find what you’re really looking for, so why should we be okay with some users not being able to access them? We’re not, so we did something about it.
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!
One day, Memcached ran out of free memory. The method get failed and all requests went directly to the database. Of course these calls also failed under the huge load, and eventually it caused downtime for the whole trivago website. Yikes!
We do think that our tech blog is full of interesting things powered by our engineers’ great stories. Let us take you on a journey of how we maintain trivago tech blog from the technical perspective and how we recently automated its deployment process.