# Remastering Guilds After Five Years

DevFeed: [Remastering Guilds After Five Years](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/remastering-guilds-after-five-years-28010.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tech.trivago.com/post/2021-05-17-remasteringguildsafterfiveyears/>)

Author: Iryna Feuerstein Data Engineer

Published: 2021-05-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Trivago](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/trivago.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>)

Tags: [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [cloud-infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-infrastructure.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>)

## AI overview

trivago reviews how its technology and non-technology guilds evolved over five years, including why some became inactive. The article explains the revised purpose of guilds as knowledge-sharing communities and identifies active ownership, regular meetings, and widely used topics as factors that support guild activity.

## Source excerpt

Five years ago trivago started to build guilds - small communities dedicated to certain topics or technologies - as a need arose to organize the collaboration of more than a hundred dev...