Are Your Dropwizard Latency Metrics Misleading You?

How Rolling-Metrics and HdrHistogram Can Help

Domain Events

If you live in Austin, Texas in the early fall of 2017, and happen to work for HomeAway, when you search for “domain events” on…

Cloud and Finance — Lessons learned

By Subbu Allamaraju

This is a joint post with Abiade Adedoyin.

Here at Expedia, we’re undergoing a strategic migration to the cloud. Like most others, we too first struggled to understand and manage our cloud spend…

Fixing Flaky Time Based Unit Tests

By Dan Levy

My name is Dan Levy and I work on our iOS team responsible for the Expedia iOS application. On our team we rely heavily on our continuous delivery pipeline to ship frequently to users, and a subset of those checks run when a pull…

Turbocharging Machine Learning

The Challenge — How can we scale bidding?

By Ram Hariharan

Expedia attracts customers through meta search sites like Trivago, Google Hotel Ads, TripAdvisor, and Kayak. As you might guess, Meta…

Fault Domains and the Vegas Rule

By Subbu Allamaraju

Our teams at Expedia are active public cloud users. We use a simple design principle called the “Vegas Rule”, and a complimentary concept called “fault domain” to make resiliency-related decisions.

Updates and Videos from re:Invent 2017

By Subbu Allamaraju

As Mark Okerstorm announced during last week’s re:Invent in Las Vegas, teams at Expedia are in the midst of migrating our travel platforms to AWS. Our teams had a busy time at re:Invent showcasing some of our work…

Learnings from Two Years of Kotlin

By Scott Weber

In case you missed it, Expedia got a call out in Google’s Developer Keynote at Google I/O yesterday as well as on the Android Developers blog.

Conversational Integration Tests for your Alexa Skills (Node/JS)

By Joan Gamell Farre

Expedia released the first version of our Alexa Skill last December at the AWS re:Invent event.

re:Invent 2017 — Building High-Performing Cloud Teams

Session: ENT217: Building High-Performing Cloud Teams

This session is a part of the Chalk Talk series at re:Invent where presenters team up to have a slide-lite, interactive discussion with attendees. Matt will…