DZone

MAY 20, 2019

Sometimes it can save lives as well: China Airlines plane crashed due to a software bug on April 26, 1994, which took 264 lives. We all know that testing your application is important, as it ensures security, customer satisfaction, and saves money in the long run.

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Airlines Testing Software Software 167

Dynatrace

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here are a few customer highlights: The director of e-commerce at a leading budget airline stated, “This is exactly what we need [in our decision-making], connecting application performance and business outcomes.”

Airlines 290

Airlines Metrics Speed Internet 290

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry,” wrote anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate in a 2022 article from MIT. “A But while moving workloads to the cloud brings overall carbon emissions down, the cloud computing carbon footprint itself is growing.

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Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy 264

Dynatrace

AUGUST 13, 2020

The IT team of one of our airline customers has introduced a very interesting thinking about their customers. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Experience has been the key to success, as the long anticipated consumer behavior has now become a reality within weeks. What if the CEOs wife can’t check in?

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Monitoring Airlines Analytics Strategy 264

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Cloud computing has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. From an IT perspective, the sustainability focus is on carbon emissions from electricity consumption, specifically related to on-premises, hybrid, and multicloud computing. Average cloud server idle time exceeds 70%.

Energy 260

Energy Airlines Analytics Transportation 260

Dynatrace

APRIL 17, 2024

Developer personas To my surprise, I discovered that our attendees were a scattered mix across industries, with customers from airlines, healthcare, consulting, and insurance to supply chain, distribution, financial services, and likely more.

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Development Performance Airlines Healthcare 245

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2024

DQL and Notebooks investigation showing systems affected by the CrowdStrike outage When a major US airline began experiencing the CrowdStrike outage, its IT team also used DQL and Dynatrace Notebooks to identify which systems were no longer forwarding logs back to Dynatrace.

Airlines 258

Airlines Monitoring Healthcare Traffic 258

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers. The airline has also been able to scale quickly to cope with spikes in seasonal traffic, cutting application latency and improving the overall customer experience.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 107

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. The second placement looks better as each CPU is given its own L1/L2 caches, and we make better use of the two L3 caches available.

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Cache Latency Airlines Logistics 258

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

For example, an airline that cares about providing excellent experience to high-value customers might have a loyalty status and mark those high-value customers as ‘Premium.’ That information is not set and managed within Dynatrace but in a CRM system deep inside the infrastructure.

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Analytics Mobile Airlines Monitoring 208

Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

So we’re going to explore this scenario with a small, fictitious airline, called (and really, what else would we call it) ParticulAir. ? These upgrades are handled asynchronously, as the airline wants to prioritize upgrades for its most valuable frequent flyers over others.

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Cloud Systems Azure Airlines 126

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Scenario : Due to an undetected configuration issue, a flight status system from a popular airline had been buffering data for the last two hours before sending it on in one batch. Observing the freshness of data helps to ensure that decisions are based on the most recent and relevant information.

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DevOps Analytics Airlines Metrics 272

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2015

The fleet owners - firms like International Lease Finance - are asset-heavy companies that buy and insure aircraft from manufacturers (Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus) and lease them to airlines who operate them to deliver people and parcels. It will be no less difficult to start an auto operating business).

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Airlines Transportation Energy Efficiency 40

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I just received a note from United Airlines that I had flown 1 million miles on their airline. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Million Miles Away. By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. Comments ().

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Airlines AWS Scalability Engineering 68

Speed Curve

MARCH 17, 2025

Downtime makes headlines: 2015 – 12-hour Apple outage cost the company $25 million 2016 – 5-hour outage caused an estimated loss of $150 million for Delta Airlines 2019 – 14-hour outage cost Facebook an estimated $90 million It's easy to see why these stories capture our attention. These are big numbers!

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Metrics Airlines Website Speed 66

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That’s the number of actions a customer needs to complete to buy an American Airlines ticket. This could be an e-commerce site that asks customers if they want to receive notifications about parcel status and delivery after completing a purchase or an airline notifying users when their flight is delayed, for example. A must-read.

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Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 136

Scalegrid

JANUARY 5, 2024

Additionally, DBMS is critical in reservation systems, where it stores and manages records like ticket bookings, schedules, seat allocation, and other pertinent transaction data for airlines, hotels, and railways.

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Efficiency Storage Database Scalability 147

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region. flydubai chose to build their online check-in platform on AWS and went from design to production in four months. It is now being used by thousands of passengers a day.

Cloud 119

Cloud Education Energy Government 119

Particular Software

APRIL 3, 2023

ARINC is a global service used by many airlines, but it’s not the easiest service to work with. Assuming a made-up airline code XX , the canonical form of a flight number is XX0460 , but some systems might represent that as a shorter XX460 , but that’s just the start of it.

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Airlines Systems Processing Design 52

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 28, 2018

He spoke of an airline that has microservices for travel services, customer profile data, flight information, and other elements of their workflow. They work at a higher level than function or library calls, offering precise access to specific data and services in the organization.

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Airlines Programming Education Mobile 68

Tasktop

JULY 23, 2020

Software delivery work flows more like airline activity than a manufacturing line. Mik writes about Nicole’s airline network epiphany in his book Project to Product. I could hear—nay, feel —the whirring noise of her mind from thousands of miles away in Austin, Texas (not that my simple brain understood much).

Airlines 52

Airlines Healthcare Government Games 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

of global emissions (similar to the airline industry), and rising. Measuring the carbon footprint of the web isn’t an exact science, but a report by the BBC in 2020 estimates that all internet activity accounts for around 3.7%

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 121

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

Widely used to track ecommerce shopping carts, financial transactions, airline flights and much more, in-memory computing can quickly store, retrieve, and analyze large volumes of live data. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability.

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Logistics Airlines Ecommerce Scalability 84

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Airlines or rail transport companies could also use this for their quality control by running an algorithm based on the image data of the freight; the algorithm would recognize damaged goods and automatically sort them out.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 113

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. It also notifies community contacts, such as airlines and taxi companies, of possible exposures so that they can take the appropriate action.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. It also notifies community contacts, such as airlines and taxi companies, of possible exposures so that they can take the appropriate action.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 11, 2020

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. It also notifies community contacts, such as airlines and taxi companies, of possible exposures so that they can take the appropriate action.

Airlines 52

Airlines Retail Mobile Technology 52

Testlodge

MARCH 28, 2018

For example, if your product is a communications platform for the airline industry being used 24/7 and highly depended upon, the ability to recover within seconds or minutes is paramount. The ability to recover from a disaster is important for any business.

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Testing Airlines Hardware Software 50

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes! If you are only looking for a replacement CMS to just power your website, take another hard look at the Traditional or Decoupled CMS space to see if there’s something that would suit your requirements better.

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Cache Website Mobile Google 145

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For example, security concerns and unreliability becoming commonplace, like the recent Southwest Airlines scheduling crisis caused by a decades-old scheduling system. It becomes outdated based on older technologies, architectural patterns, and outdated assumptions about the business and its environment.

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Architecture Innovation Airlines Technology 97

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Airline apps have come a long way since they made their debut 15 years ago, but when weather disrupts air travel, the queues at customer service desks and phone lines get congested because there is a limit to the solutions that can be offered through an app.

Airlines 52

Airlines Transportation Retail Technology 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Airline crew pairing and composition problem is an area of deep research. For instance, if one of the pilots get sick, the airline still has to run flight by allowing a replacement pilot to take over. In industries like aviation, it's impossible to create long-lived cockpit crew composition.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others. From its inception, the design philosophy behind ScaleOut StateServer has been to simultaneously maximize both performance and ease of use.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest to adjust plane and crew schedules. Those adjusted schedules were often logistically flawed because the planes and crews matched at a specific place and time didn’t make sense in the real world.

Airlines 52

Airlines Logistics Government Technology 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2024

E.g., airlines stand to lose passenger volume on short haul flights to autonomous vehicles available through transportation-as-a-service. Autonomy is a much different opportunity. A bet on autonomy is a bet on the belief that autonomy brings entirely new and different use cases into the transportation sector.

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Transportation Airlines Strategy Design 40

Tech News Gather

JUNE 4, 2023

They can deliver relevant information about airline delays and gate changes. It helps companies to offer prompt and personalized customer service. Customer Support can answer client questions and offer instant assistance. They can do so using tools like in-app messaging, chatbots, and push notifications.

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Mobile Airlines Strategy Analytics 52