How Expedia Finds your Flights: An Overview

By Waqas Sheikh and John Fischer

When you search for flights on Expedia, how do we come up with results? Many flight searches on Expedia are powered by Best Fare Search (BFS), Expedia’s in-house flight search and pricing engine…

AWS Lessons Learned for Data Processing Pipelines

Last year my team and I embarked on a mission to migrate Expedia’s Media Services image processing pipeline to AWS. The media services are used to ingest images from hoteliers and image providers, optimize them, and distribute them to be used…

Our First Partner Hackathon

By Sebastien Leitner, Sunil Srivastava

We’ve recently been running a lot of internal and public hackathons to get people inside and outside Expedia excited about travel. In December we hosted our first ever Expedia Partner Hackathon. We gathered over 40…

Gamifying Continuous Integration

For the last couple of years we’ve been moving applications from our data centers into the cloud. One of the advantages of moving to the cloud was that we could host our applications in different geographical regions bringing them closer to the user. Also each team…