Who am I?

• Current job Scala Engineer at Vrbo (EG)
• My career & me
  • Mostly backend Engineer
    • ~ 4 year as Scala Engineer
    • ~ 4 years as Java Engineer
  • >1 year of motherhood

Scala & Java

Programming languages mainly used to build backend features

Backend Engineer work

• Work that users can't directly see
  • Add an item to a shopping cart
  • Call to an external service (e.g. delivery service)
• Very important for a business

Why is it important? I

• Implement the functionality of the business, aka, business logic
  • Store safely the information
  • Manage that information to follow a process/workflow
  • Send information to other services
  • Call to other services to gather information
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Why is it important? II

• A business need to compete with other similar business. Therefore we want to have:
  • Good performance
  • Good reliability
  • Be the most of the time available

A Vrbo Use Case 

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What this project is about?

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