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Completely disagree on the technology part, everything being written in Perl doesn't help and the user experience is not as good as Airbnb. The main thing going
by aboutruby 8y ago
Completely disagree on the technology part, everything being written in Perl doesn't help and the user experience is not as good as Airbnb. The main thing going for them is that they have basically every hotel on their platform. And like others mentioned, that a lot of people prefer hotels to airbnbs.
- hrktb 8y agoI heard the integration part was mostly java. I’d guest they have both alive internaly, a bit like amazon at a time (?) PS: dealing with hotels is playing with decades old technology. I think they’re doomed to keep a flexible and tried and true stack to deal with all the atrocities they’ll have to adjust to.
- notyourwork 8y ago> Completely disagree on the technology part, everything being written in Perl doesn't help Doesn't help what exactly? Lots of Amazon.com still runs in perl so not sure why this matters.
- cr1895 8y ago>the user experience is not as good as Airbnb. This user's perspective is the opposite.
- bertil 8y agoI can’t and I won’t comment on that larger part of the code base, but I suspect that you are right. (I did leave the company after all.) Having every hotel on the planet requires some very heavy-handed growth teams and they have impressive talent there. It also requires to develop very flexible solutions and, even of the main code-base has some problem, that flexibility is worth mentioning. There are three areas where I’ve seen some world-class internal products (on par with what I’ve seen at Facebook): data engineering, A/B testing, Machine learning hosting and serving. I’ve asked them to open-source and started what I could to help them do that, but they are far from being able to do it.