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≡ Menu Close Home Topics Accessibility Backend Cloud Data science Devops Engineering Engineering culture Frontend Mobile Monitoring Open source Release engineering User experience About Open Source Careers Follow us on Backend Monitoring How To Get Fooled By Metrics Posted on 04 December 2020 Metrics are one of the main building blocks in the topic of observability and we use them heavily. This story is about an incident where we tried to find and resolve a problem that we saw in these metrics. We went down a rabbit hole of potential fixes, only to discover that the metrics were correct all along. Read the post Frontend Mobile Exploring the Page Visibility API for Detecting Page Background State Posted on 17 November 2020 At trivago we are working heavily on the web platform and, based on the scale that we need to serve our users, our applications need to cater for many different kinds of environments and conditions. As one of our use cases demanded we look into how a background (and possibly terminating) state is defined in the modern web, we investigated the options and discovered a few interesting points, specifically about thePage Visibility API. Read the post Data Science Engineering Culture Deep Dive Into Data Science at trivago Posted on 22 October 2020 What does Data Science at trivago look like in practice? Which major challenges have we encountered as a travel-tech company since the COVID-19 outbreak? What’s it like to work in Data Science at trivago? In this Q&A with James Neaves (Business Intelligence Lead), Andrea Fernandez (Data Science Team Lead), and Sheetij Jain (Product Manager in User Profiling) we’ll answer all these questions and more. Too Long; Didn’t Read? Jump directly to the questions! Read the post Engineering Culture Beyond trivago Tech Pt. 2: Four More Side Projects from Our Developers Posted on 22 September 2020 This is part two of our series about trivago engineer’s side projects. The first part is here. As always, take a look and feel free to reach out to any of them if you’d like to exchange on any of their topics! Hello Rust Our backend engineer Matthias Endler is running a YouTube channel about the Rust project as a side-project. In there he explains the ins and outs of the language, but his goal is not only to present information; rather, he’s striving to inspire fellow developers to try the language and stay curious. Read the post Engineering Culture Beyond trivago Tech Pt.1: Side-Projects from Our Developers Posted on 08 September 2020 Fanatic learning is one of trivago’s core values that forms a fundamental part of our engineering culture. It’s very valuable to have curious minds around you that connect the dots to come up with new ideas and love to exchange knowledge on various topics. Since many of our engineers are involved in their own initiatives and projects outside work, we decided to introduce you to some of these side projects. The goal is to recognize their achievements and share their knowledge with our broader tech community. Read the post Engineering Culture Frontend How Working as a Product Owner Helped Me Be a Better Engineer (and vice versa) Posted on 19 August 2020 Over the past few months, I was given the opportunity to try out the life of a Product Owner (PO), alongside retaining my responsibilities as an engineer. The life of a PO has always intrigued me since I joined trivago 2 years ago, and I always found myself unofficially taking on roles that were traditionally done by them. Things like reaching out to stakeholders for collaboration, thinking about KPIs and impact, and general “aligning”. Read the post Engineering Culture Backend trivago Tech Check-in: Meet Fabian Posted on 03 August 2020 In our new series, trivago Tech Check-in, we’re introducing you to some of our tech talents from across the globe who help keep our metasearch engine running smoothly everyday. In this first edition, you’ll meet Fabian Fritzsche, an engineering intern that works on the Microservice-System that feeds our GraphQL API with up-to-date hotel data. Read the post We're Hiring 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? View all current job openings Cloud Devops Backend Google Cloud Workload-Placement-Guide Posted on 17 July 2020 At trivago we operate a hybrid infrastructure of both on-premise machines and clusters on Google Cloud. Over time, we came up with a set of deployment guidelines for running our workloads as more and more of them are migrating to Google Cloud. These are not strict rules, but rather suggestions to best serve each team’s needs. Teams are meant to have full control over their workloads, but most of the time they “just want to run things” and do not have the time or resources to care much about managing the underlying infrastructure. Read the post Engineering Culture Release Engineering Interview for BrowserStack's Breakpoint 2020 Conference Posted on 03 July 2020 Breakpoint 2020 is a 4-day virtual summit on everything testing. It takes place on July 20-23, 2020. One of our engineers, Benjamin Bischoff will be giving a talk and BrowserStack did an interview with him! After 15 years as a game/application developer and trainer, Benjamin decided to make test automation his career. He’s currently a Test Automation Engineer in trivago’s core QA team. Benjamin is also the author and maintainer of two open source projects for Cucumber BDD parallel test execution and reporting. 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