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I don't know this space at all; what are the other options?
Think Bigtable.
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Think Bigtable.
That doesn't strike me as fitting the requirements. They need high transaction rates and true high availability (don't know if Bigtable is as good). And they don't need petabyte scaling, which I gather is one of Bigtable's big attractions.
But the oracle RAC (just guessing here) may act as a cache between the 300 ms part and the actual tables, and to be a fat reliable pipe.
But they do take on some interesting problems, such as how do you keep this up across system upgrades, hardware failures, application version migration, among others.
gigantic move in the travel industry ITA runs behind the scenes at Orbitz and many other OTA's. saying it could cause problems for major players in the market would be an understatement. (I'm a former Orbitz and Cheaptickets engineer, as well as tech advisor to some travel startups)
Hopefully Google will make flight search suck less. Currently even the most basic searches like "What's the cheapest I can fly from any airport within 50 miles of my house to any airport within 50 miles of NYC at any point during August" are impossible. I understand it's a computationally expensive question, but why the hell can't I just buy $5 bucks worth of computing time for an answer if I potentially stand to sav…
From the FAQ: ITA Software does not market a consumer oriented flight search site. That's probably not completely true. Matrix, although not a booking site, is one of the better flight search sites, allows consumers to find the cheapest time to leave and come back in a given month for a particular number of days of travel. http://matrix2.itasoftware.com
That's fantastic! Thanks for the link. I've been wondering if there was something like that for a while. I hope Google leave it as it is (or improve it).
Hopefully Google will make flight search suck less. Currently even the most basic searches like "What's the cheapest I can fly from any airport within 50 miles of my house to any airport within 50 miles of NYC at any point during August" are impossible. I understand it's a computationally expensive question, but why the hell can't I just buy $5 bucks worth of computing time for an answer if I potentially stand to sav…
Yea, kayak doesn't do that at all.
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Unlikely that they will go away from lisp. They are heavy users of SBCL (performance) and CCL (fast compile) and have some interesting fraction of a million lines of lisp code and might just be one of the larger employers of lisp programmers. See http://danweinreb.org/blog/the-failure-of-lisp-a-reply-to-br...
It also isn't a "location based application that lets you casually hookup with your friends" that used to be acquired in droves 2005-2008. This is a serious and existing, profitable business with a serious and scalable technology platform and experienced talent. Not just ambitious and smart college kids getting a slightly higher hiring bonus (not that there's anything wrong with that). The critical infrastructure pie…
Classic paper by Carl de Marcken, co-founder and former CTO of ITA Software, elaborating the unique domain problems of air travel planning:
"Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning"
http://www.demarcken.org/carl/papers/ITA-software-travel-com...
Hopefully Google will make flight search suck less. Currently even the most basic searches like "What's the cheapest I can fly from any airport within 50 miles of my house to any airport within 50 miles of NYC at any point during August" are impossible. I understand it's a computationally expensive question, but why the hell can't I just buy $5 bucks worth of computing time for an answer if I potentially stand to sav…
I work at ITA on QPX, the airfare search engine. We've been doing those sorts of radius searches for years, although we don't currently integrate street-level data for any customers that I know of. Head to http://matrix2.itasoftware.com , put in where you are, then click "Nearby" - the default is 50 miles, even! Then ask for a calendar of lowest fares. You can even tell it "I want to stay 2-5 nights". Many of our cus…
Note: Tickets cannot be purchased directly from ITA Software. If you find a fare you like, you can give the information from this site to your travel agent or airline when making a booking.
This is a deal breaker. I do not want to contact travel agent OR airline customer rep for booking my tickets. I want to find the best fare, enter my credit card and be done. Also, why should Travel Agent OR airline honor the fare which you posted when we all know that flight ticket pricing is highly dynamic?
Hopefully Google will make flight search suck less. Currently even the most basic searches like "What's the cheapest I can fly from any airport within 50 miles of my house to any airport within 50 miles of NYC at any point during August" are impossible. I understand it's a computationally expensive question, but why the hell can't I just buy $5 bucks worth of computing time for an answer if I potentially stand to sav…
I work at ITA on QPX, the airfare search engine. We've been doing those sorts of radius searches for years, although we don't currently integrate street-level data for any customers that I know of. Head to http://matrix2.itasoftware.com , put in where you are, then click "Nearby" - the default is 50 miles, even! Then ask for a calendar of lowest fares. You can even tell it "I want to stay 2-5 nights". Many of our cus…
I need hopefully need to fly to Salt Lake City in Febuary and I'm staying for about 1-2 months
- I search for "Iceland -> Salt lake city" for 50 nights => $2,441 (many dates)
- I search for "Iceland -> New York" for 50 nights => $454 (many dates)
- I search for "New York -> Salt Lake City" for 50 nights => $350 (af few dates)
So If I do it manually from Iceland to new york and then book a flight some other dates from NYC->SLC, I save $1,637 ... that's a lot of savings
I understand that that is a hard problem to solve, but if it can be handled by a computer one day, my life will be better!
gigantic move in the travel industry ITA runs behind the scenes at Orbitz and many other OTA's. saying it could cause problems for major players in the market would be an understatement. (I'm a former Orbitz and Cheaptickets engineer, as well as tech advisor to some travel startups)
My question is how this acquisition really helps travelers. I can see how it might help Google possibly become an online travel agent, but how does that help me when the carriers set the prices anyway? Are we hoping for Google discounts or better visibility of seat sales? Or is there something that Google can do to really change things beyond how ITA already has?