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Booking.com engineering blog

Stability in Jetpack Compose
The post appears to address stability in Jetpack Compose. The body was unavailable, so no technical details or concrete takeaways could be verified.
The Causality Gap: Measuring the True Impact of Voluntary Adoption in Digital Marketplaces
This post explains why standard A/B testing can mismeasure opt-in product features in digital marketplaces, especially when voluntary adoption and user heterogeneity create dilution and selection bias. It proposes combining Randomized Encouragement Design with Double Machine Learning to estimate both the causal lift for adopters and the overall rollout impact, helping teams distinguish product quality problems from adoption-funnel problems.
Scaling Experimentation Quality at Booking.com
Scaling Experimentation Quality at Booking.com Authors: Edgar Cano, Daisy Duursma, Nils Skotara, Melanie Mueller. The post appears to discuss how Booking.com improves the quality and reliability of experimentation at scale.
The necessity of imperfection
The necessity of imperfection: Designing for distributed ownership in Backstage. The article discusses how to design internal platforms that support distributed ownership and scale across many developers.
AI Agent Evaluation
AI Agent Evaluation: practical tips at Booking.com. The post shares lessons and practical advice for evaluating AI agents and judging model behavior.
Constrained Best Arm Identification
Constrained Best Arm Identification To be presented in NeurIPS 2025. The post discusses a research contribution related to experimentation and decision-making under constraints.
Defeating Goodhart's Law
A talk that examines how optimizing for specific metrics can produce perverse or misleading outcomes and offers a practical two-step framework for building metrics that encourage real progress rather than box-ticking. It provides guidance for product and analytics teams to create more robust measurement practices.