Experimental Mind: Safe Deploys

Jul 18, 2022

As Airbnb has grown to a company with over 1,200 developers, the number of platforms and channels for pushing changes to our product — and the number of daily changes we push into production — has also grown tremendously.

In the face of this growth, we constantly need to scale our ability to detect errors before they reach production. However, errors inevitably slip past pre-production validation, so we also invest heavily in mechanisms to detect errors quickly when they do make it to production.

🚀 Job opportunities

[DUTCH] Als Conversie Optimalisatie Specialist optimaliseer je onze webshop en apps aan de hand van sterke analyses in onze online data en inzichten in klanten (shop)gedrag.

All of the featured roles this week:

Backend Engineer Experimentation at Spotify (remote, EMEA)
CRO Specialist at Albert Heijn (Zaandam, NL)
Senior Data Scientist at Farfetch (Lisbon, Portugal)
Digital Analyst at RTL (Hilversum, NL)
Conference Organizer at Measurecamp (Amsterdam, NL)

Check out the job board to find other open roles.

📅 Upcoming events

All upcoming events in the next months:

26 July: CRAP Talks #18 (London)
22 Aug: Accelerating Innovation with A/B Testing (virtual)
🆕 20-23 Sep: Nonprofit Innovation & Optimization Summit (Kansas)
🆕 20-21 Sep: Marketing Insights Event (Utrecht, NL
🆕 26-30 Sep: Experiment Nation Conference (virtual)

See the full overview of events to find other events and conferences for you and your team.

💬 Quote of the week

Consistently rethinking your plans and testing your assumptions like a scientist will lead to significantly better outcomes. — Adam Grant

😉 Fun of the week

You've probably heard about the Trolley Problem. Now there is the Absurd Trolley Problems.

🙏 Thanks for reading

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Have a great week — and keep experimenting.

Kevin

Experimental Mind