Trevor Livingston | Principal Architect, HomeAway in Austin, TX How HomeAway is utilizing npm modules and schema partials to create GraphQL components for self-orchestrating apps and services HomeAway uses the simplicity and flexibility of GraphQL to insulate applications from change and accelerate UI and API development.   For a little over two years, we‘ve been busy […]

Anurag Banka | Software Development Engineer II in Gurgaon, India In this post, I would like to give a glimpse of a practical application of micro-service on a monolith product which leads to better team productivity, customer experience, and product scalability. Monolith are services; which are not easy to scale, hard to maintain, and can become […]

Kate Bascombe | Software Development Engineer II in Brisbane, Australia A great manager of mine once explained to me the difference between a ‘Travel Company’ and a ‘Technology Company that deals in Travel’. He used a pizza metaphor to help illustrate, comparing Pizza Hut and Dominos. Pizza Hut is a fine company offering pizza to […]

Expedia’s Makers | Engineering Lodging Shop The Lodging Shopping product & engineering team are responsible for solving customer problems for lodging search, refine, and details. This includes the services that power the web/native experience and the user interface to web browsers on mobile, tablet and desktop. Surthi Samraj, Daman Kauer, Dineth Mendis, Scott Horn, and George […]

Tammy Stockton | Sr Product Manager in Bellevue As a Sr. Product Manager of Developer Collaboration and Productivity for Expedia’s IT organization, I’ve been participating in a Common Tools & Services initiative. But, lets back up about a year. In 2017, I had the opportunity to sit down with Technology Leaders across Expedia Group. In […]

Urja Gandhi | Sr. Software  Engineering Manager in Seattle, WA Being a Sr.  Software Engineering Manager at Expedia Group, my typical workday is full of exciting stuff. It includes design discussions and white-boarding with software engineers, architects, product managers, and other engineering managers. Driving the end-to-end implementation of features in a full stack application, reviewing […]

Mouy Loeung | Software Engineer in Test II in Sydney This article aims to answer the following questions around team norms: What are team norms? What is the importance of team norms? How do we set our team norms? How do we follow through? What are Team Norms Team norms is a relationship agreement or a social […]