Posts about Engineering

In the beginning of 2019, the trivago Magazine team decided to switch over from a JavaScript Single Page Application to Server-Side Rendering. This article describes the why, the how, and further challenges of this journey. Single Page Applications and their Issues The trivago Magazine started as a simple WordPress (WP) blog about interesting hotels and travel destinations. We used a customized WP theme that provided proper user navigation as well as SEO and further functionality.

trivago Intelligence was born in 2013 with two main objectives: First, to provide bidding capability to the advertisers, who are listed on trivago, and second, to provide them with metrics related to their own hotels; like clicks, revenue, and bookings (typical BI data). This project faced a wave of inevitable data growth which lead to a refactoring process which produced a lot of learnings for the team. As I expect it to be useful for other teams who deal with similar challenges, this article will describe why a team started a full migration of technologies, how we did it and the result of it.

While searching for “Spa and Wellness hotels in Berlin…” I land on trivago. Surprisingly the main images of the hotels exactly reflect the spa concept that I am searching for. It helped me better compare hotels on the list for finding my ideal accommodation for my vacation! This was the user experience we were looking for when we kicked off the Image Concepts project at trivago. The users with clear hotel search intent who are looking for a specific concept hotel before coming to trivago are redirected to the landing pages related to that particular topic.