InThe Hotels.com Technology BlogbyNikos KatirtzisMy Review of the Hotels.com Java Meet UpOur most recent Hotels.com Java meetup took place on Wednesday 24th January at the Expedia offices in London. This time our Jack Shirazi…Feb 13, 2018Feb 13, 2018
InThe Hotels.com Technology BlogbyNikos KatirtzisMy Review of the Expedia Inc. Big Data & AWS Meet UpOur most recent Expedia Inc. Big Data & AWS meetup took place on Wednesday 14th March at the Expedia offices in London. This time our…Mar 23, 20183Mar 23, 20183
InThe Hotels.com Technology BlogbyNikos KatirtzisPresenting at ETAPS/FASE conferenceA couple of days ago I had the honor of presenting at ETAPS/FASE 2018 conference which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece.May 21, 20181May 21, 20181
InThe Hotels.com Technology BlogbyNikos KatirtzisGoing Beyond grep for Searching Source Code — ZoektThe good old days when entire websites (including hotels.com) were served by a single web service are gone.Sep 2, 201824Sep 2, 201824
Nikos KatirtzisPresenting at Voxxed & the benefits of attending tech conferencesRecently I had the pleasure of speaking at Voxxed Days Thessaloniki, one of the biggest tech conferences in Greece. If the name reminds you…Jan 17, 20191Jan 17, 20191
InThe Hotels.com Technology BlogbyNikos KatirtzisResilience at Hotels.com (Part 1 — Kube-Monkey)When we wrote our first blog post that’s related to resilience engineering we didn’t think about starting a series of posts in that area…May 13, 201931May 13, 201931
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisLondon Chaos and Resilience Engineering CommunityMeetup at Expedia GroupNov 19, 201911Nov 19, 201911
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisIntroducing gRPC to our Hotels.com Platform — Part 1Learnings from our experiments with gRPCDec 17, 20191281Dec 17, 20191281
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisLondon Chaos and Resilience Engineering CommunityDetails of the January 2020 Chaos and Resilience Engineering London event held at Expedia Group including slides and talk outlinesFeb 17, 2020104Feb 17, 2020104
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisIntroducing gRPC to our Hotels.com Platform — Part 2Continuing our learning about gRPC — this time implementing a serviceMar 5, 202028Mar 5, 202028
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisMittens — Warming up Your ApplicationMittens is an open-source tool that can be used as a warm-up routine for HTTP applications over both REST and gRPCJun 11, 2020471Jun 11, 2020471
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisCreating Monitoring DashboardsGuidelines for developersSep 10, 20206891Sep 10, 20206891
Nikos KatirtzisThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to GoAn introduction to the Go programming languageMar 31, 2021129Mar 31, 2021129
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisUsing Fault-Injection to Improve our new Platform’s ReliabilityExercising Availability Zone DisruptionsJul 6, 2021133Jul 6, 2021133
Nikos KatirtzisMy top 5 books for 2021Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing by Pete DavisJan 1, 2022693Jan 1, 2022693
Nikos KatirtzisA Hitchhiker’s Guide to Spinnaker PluginsAn overview of the Spinnaker platform, things to have in mind when building plugins, and challenges you may face.Jan 5, 20228Jan 5, 20228
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisOpen Source at Expedia Group — Behind the scenesScaling open source with tools and simplified processesMar 22, 202285Mar 22, 202285
InExpedia Group TechnologybyNikos KatirtzisChaos Engineering at Expedia GroupBuilding platforms requires connecting building blocksMar 29, 2022128Mar 29, 2022128
Nikos KatirtzisThe new era of developer toolsI have been excited by developer tools and the value they can bring since my days at university. Back in Greece, and later in Edinburgh, I…Mar 30, 202331Mar 30, 202331
Nikos KatirtzisRandomly LearningLearning using random walks, interleaving, and the generation effect.Sep 6, 2024Sep 6, 2024
