Culture

What I’ve learned in 10 years as an SDE

This month it will have been ten years since I started my first full-time software…

All Things Agile — Running a Retrospective

What is the reaction of your team when it comes to having a retrospective?

Participation Hits a Record High at Global Expedia Hackathon 7.0

Expedia Group has a long lasting tradition of hosting internal hackathons, where we encourage engineers, designers and product managers from our offices around the world to take time away from their day-to-day…

Cloud Lock-In and Change Agility

TL;DR Don’t Focus on Lock-In Insulation — Focus on Change Agility

We are entering into a future of lock-in. Public clouds are no longer someone else’s computers or hosted services. These are fast becoming proprietary platforms with a bit of open…

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…

Things that matter

This week marked my second year at Expedia and I have been giving some thought to aspects of working with people and teams that I have found to be important. We know a lot about how technology, process, people, and budget choices impact how teams perform. The following are my beliefs around…