Shadowing Practice: All About Agoda's Back-End Engineering - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Hi, my name is Bruno and I work as a senior engineering manager at Agoda.
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So my journey here started back in 2016 as a back-end engineer in tech search team.
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And now I'm a senior engineering manager leading a few organizations like accommodation, search and pricing, as well as white labels.
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For the role that we are heading for, it's a back-end engineer.
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And what we're looking for is like brilliant engineers willing to
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use technology on the deepest possible level to solve complex problems and make our organization thrive.
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Engineers working at Agoda may expect a very dynamic and fast-paced environment.
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So different teams have different natures of problems to solve, but you can majorly split these into like main different types.
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You have platform teams and horizontal teams.
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Engineers being part of platform team not only need to build scalable, highly scalable applications that can serve like a huge amount of traffic that we are exposed to,
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but also made sure that the code is simple enough to be contributed by many horizontal teams across the company.
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As part of a horizontal team on the other side, you don't have this in-depth exposure in terms of the scalability,
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but you have a very broad exposure in terms of all the systems that we have in Agoda, which makes you have a very good end-to-end understanding of what we do
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and then can contribute and create immediate impact with great features that you push to production.
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So to put some numbers in perspective, So for price calculation system, for example, we handle 20 million price calculations every single second.
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With such scale, you can imagine that there is no out-of-the-box solution that can be applied.
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Even simple strategies like auto-scaling or retries or any other strategy cannot just be used out-of-the-box.
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With this, engineers need to go to the deepest level of technology to make the right choices
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and build an architecture that can scale for the future.
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When I think about like the reason why I work in this company
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and what excites me the most in the database I can think mostly about three things,
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how diverse data-driven and technology-focused this organization is.
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So when you think about diversity, imagine what it is to work with almost 100 different nationalities under the same roof.
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The amount of different perspectives that all of these people bring to the problem is something that you cannot find easily somewhere.
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Now, when it comes to data-driven technology-focused, everything here can be represented by data by data.
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So our hypothesis, we use data to back them, as well as getting enough insights for new hypotheses to come up.
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Which means there is no such thing as titles when it comes to give great ideas that can materialize in great features.
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When you talk about technology focused, it's not using technology just for the sake of using it.
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It's by using innovation and using the newest possible technologies on what the best they can serve us for.
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If Solving complex problems and using technology on the deepest possible level is something that excites you.
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That's just the right place for you.
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Come join us and help us build the greatest possible experience for millions of travelers around the world.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “All About Agoda's Back-End Engineering”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: technology, engineer, Agoda, deepest, horizontal. Deze video bevat 32 zinnen en 561 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:05. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 182 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 87% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is goed te volgen.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
De 13 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| horizontal bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/ | horizontaal |
| excite werkwoord | /ɪkˈsaɪt/ | prikkelen, opwinden |
| scalable bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈskeɪ.lə.bl̩/ | klimbaar, beklimbaar |
| calculation zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/ | berekening |
| hypothesis zelfstandig naamwoord | /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/ | hypothese, stelling |
| materialize werkwoord | /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/ | materialiseren |
| scalability zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌskeɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/ | schaalbaarheid |
| nationality zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/ | nationaliteit, natie |
| thrive werkwoord | /θɹajv/ | gedijen |
| automobile zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/ | automobiel, auto |
| expose werkwoord | /ɪkˈspoʊz/ | zichtbaar maken, blootleggen |
| accommodation zelfstandig naamwoord | /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/ | onderkomen, logies |
| insight zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɪnsaɪ̯t/ | inzicht |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 3 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals don't, I'm, we're. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, thrive /θɹajv/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: horizontal /ˌhoɹəˈzɑn.təl/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, materialize /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/, scalability /ˌskeɪ.ləˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/, nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: materialize /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/, thrive /θɹajv/, expose /ɪkˈspoʊz/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, nationality /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als horizontal, excite, scalable.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.