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Booking.com Tech Blog
Company blog · blog.booking.comprogrammingsystemsweb
Booking.com Tech Blog is the company blog at blog.booking.com, writing about programming, systems and web. Since 2012, 35 different Hacker News readers have linked it 72 times, most often “Sereal - a binary data serialization format”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Booking.com's tech blog for individual engineering posts, such as Sereal serialization, Perl hash hardening, Riak backpressure and container isolation. Several threads only link its job listings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Booking.com is the world's leading online accommodation experience provider, operating across 220+ countries in more than 45 languages. Our team of UX designers and writers, developers, database engineers and Sysadmins are solving complicated problems at huge scale.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 28 mentions · first linked 2015-07-31
- Sereal - a binary data serialization format3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-11-13
- Hardening Perl's Hash Function3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-11-06
- Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 4: More Benchmarks in Production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-26
- K-Nearest Neighbours: From slow to fast thanks to maths2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-09-01
- Troubleshooting: A journey into the unknown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-29
- Hardening Perl’s Hash Function (2013)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-04
- Profiling in Production2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-05-01
What Hacker News says?
I can imagine some ways to armor the branch predictor, similar in principle to how languages like Perl have to include a random seed in their hash code (in some circumstances) to avoid being able to pre-compute values that will all hash to the same thing [1]. There should be some ways to relatively cheaply periodically inject such a randomization into the prediction system enough to prevent that aspect of the attack…
Comment linking /hardening-perls-hash-function.html
on “Reading privileged memory with a side-channel”Submitted How we spent two days making Perl faster as a story · 193 points
HN discussionBooking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Hardening Perl's Hash Function as a story · 84 points
HN discussionBooking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Autonomous Peer Learning at Booking.com (2016) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionBooking.com - https://booking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive thin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Sereal - a binary data serialization format as a story · 13 points
HN discussionBOOKING.COM ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things to say about working here. The people are intelligent and helpf…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted A Faster Perl Runtime in Tiny Steps as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBooking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted K-Nearest Neighbours: From slow to fast thanks to maths as a story · 7 points
HN discussionBooking.com ONSITE Full-Time (Amsterdam, Netherlands and Shanghai, China) Our headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands office: * Full Stack Developer: https://grnh.se/eojb6f1 * Full stack developer and Team lead: https://grnh.se/haf1v2gr1 * Client Side Developers and Team Lead: https://grnh.se/monao6ah1 * iOS Developer: https://grnh.se/wegb8a1 * UX designer HTML/CSS: https://grnh.se/x7t1q31 * UX Designer & Team Lead:…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted MySQL 5.6 GTIDs: Evaluation and Online Migration as a story · 7 points
HN discussionBooking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Automating CSS sprites for large organisations as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBooking.com | ONSITE | Full-Time | (Amsterdam, Netherlands and Shanghai, China) Our headquarters in Amsterdam, Netherlands office: * Software Developer: https://grnh.se/hiwt6m1 * Senior Software Developer: https://grnh.se/mtynks1 * Senior Software Developer(Technical lead): https://grnh.se/wiu4pyoc1 * Full Stack Developer: https://grnh.se/eojb6f1 * Full stack developer and Team lead: https://grnh.se/haf1v2gr1 * Clie…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Would you like fries with that? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBOOKING.COM ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam/ or our Tel Aviv office, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things to say about working here. The people a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted YUICompressor rewritten from Java - Perl for 50% speed gain as a story · 4 points
HN discussionONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have only positive things to say about working here. The people are intelligent and helpful, interest…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Named Entity Classification at Booking.com as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBOOKING.COM - Amsterdam, Tel Aviv, Shanghai | ONSITE | VISA support| Relocation support * Software Developer - Payment (Amsterdam) https://grnh.se/i04olnco1 * Software Developer (Tel Aviv) https://grnh.se/q5ne1d5i1 * Software Developer & People Manager (Amsterdam) https://grnh.se/3b1rr6151 * Full stack developer (Tel Aviv) https://grnh.se/w1b4jesn1 * Full stack developer and Team lead (Amsterdam) https://grnh.se/haf…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Sereal – a binary data serialization format as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBooking.com - https://booking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Hardening Perl’s Hash Function (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBooking.com - https://booking.com - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a backend developer. I have…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Avoiding Phase Transitions in Server Configuration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBooking.com - https://booking.com<https://booking.com/> - Amsterdam(Netherlands), Shanghai (China), Seattle, WA (USA), ONSITE Full-time, relocation to Amsterdam, (H1B or its dutch equivalent anyway) is taken care of by the company. General Interview Process -> Hackerrank test, call with the recruiter, phone interview, onsite interviews I work at Booking.com, which is a world leader in travel accommodations, as a bac…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Submitted Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 4: More Benchmarks in Production as a story · 2 points
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