Particular Software

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This gets even more tricky when those integrations are over on-prem-only technologies, like MSMQ, that don’t integrate out-of-the-box with cloud alternatives like Azure Service Bus or Amazon SQS. So we’re going to explore this scenario with a small, fictitious airline, called (and really, what else would we call it) ParticulAir. ?

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

We have supported the development of technology skills across the region with Training and Certification programs to help customers develop skills to design, deploy, and operate their infrastructure and applications on the AWS Cloud. One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When a technology has its breakthrough, can often only be determined in hindsight. Answering these questions will be just as important as the effort to solve the technological challenges, and neither dogmas nor ideologies will help. In the past, AI technologies were so expensive that it was hardly worth it to use them.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 113

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 28, 2021

A software technology called in-memory computing has evolved over the last twenty years to grapple with the challenge of tracking and analyzing fast-changing data. This powerful technology may also be just what we need to help tackle the challenge of vaccine distribution. Its two core competencies are speed and scalability.

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Logistics Airlines Ecommerce Scalability 84

Smashing Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

For example, if the CMS is built on Microsoft’s.NET Framework, the front-end website would also be built on the same technology. Working for a major airline not even a decade ago, I can remember trying to model content for mobile devices (yes! Look out for: A supported SDK for your choice of technology, language, and platform.

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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. The disadvantages of using a Database Management System (DBMS) include high cost, complexity, and dependence on technology.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

After several months of strict Covid quarantine gave product designer Ehsan Noursalehi a new perspective on our relationship with technology, he decided to convert his obervations and questions into an online micro book. That’s the number of actions a customer needs to complete to buy an American Airlines ticket. Why do we interface?

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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

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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. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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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. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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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. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

of global emissions (similar to the airline industry), and rising. Don’t forget to include alt text, so that users of assistive technologies can access the content of the image. Screenshots can be captured manually, or you could use a service such as Tweetpik , which creates screenshots from tweet URLs (and has an API).

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Social Media Media Website Airlines 121

Tasktop

JULY 23, 2020

I’ve always been curious about the stories behind some of the world’s most impactful technology. 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. Always wondered how profound product visions came to be.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As Steve Jobs wisely said, Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s Thinking In my view, technology executives and engineering leaders are overly obsessed with the Spotify model. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. And there lies the problem.

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Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

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. The culprit, according to people at Southwest quoted by the Wall Street Journal, was scheduling technology that could not sufficiently scale and is nearing end-of-life.

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Airlines Logistics Government 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. If you find yourself leading a project that involves business process and technology, be sure to review any existing recovery testing procedures.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The definition has expanded in recent years to include tasks that used to be done by other people that most of us now do for ourselves, largely through self-service technology, like banking and travel booking. No amount of self-service technology will compensate for a company ethos that treats the customer as the problem.

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Airlines Transportation Retail Technology 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others.

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Analytics Airlines Cache Ecommerce 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others.

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Analytics Airlines Cache Ecommerce 52

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Personal technology such as spreadsheets and smartphones empowers increasingly tech-savvy knowledge workers.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. A company investigating a disruptive technology for its potential doesn't have to own the means by which it does that investigation.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

In one sense, labour is to the IT industry as jet fuel is to the airline industry: IT is beholden to its people, just as airplanes don’t fly without fuel. The value of this knowledge is completely invisible if we’re buying technology assets based on cost. 2 Technology job growth and salaries are on the rise worldwide.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2024

airlines stand to lose passenger volume on short haul flights to autonomous vehicles available through transportation-as-a-service. The technology is more complex, the liability (for passenger, pedestrian and property) is greater, and the business models that exploit it are as yet unknown and unproven.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline).

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Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

There are plenty of cookie-cutter frameworks for combining businesses, even their technology systems and operations. This is something H-P did in the late 1990s , and is about to do again. We need to combine systems, and do so quickly.

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IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

IO River

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an age where mainly all services that businesses provide their customers run on computing technology, it is crucial that companies understand the importance of providing reliable access to their systems.In What is 5 Nines Availability?In determining a business's value to its clients, the level of service it provides is often a key metric.

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Availability Social Media Traffic Games 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Whether it’s ecommerce shopping carts, financial trading data, IoT telemetry, or airline reservations, these data sets need fast, reliable access for large, mission-critical workloads. For more than a decade, in-memory data grids (IMDGs) have proven their usefulness for storing fast-changing data in enterprise applications.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Whether it’s ecommerce shopping carts, financial trading data, IoT telemetry, or airline reservations, these data sets need fast, reliable access for large, mission-critical workloads. For more than a decade, in-memory data grids (IMDGs) have proven their usefulness for storing fast-changing data in enterprise applications.

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Scalability Cache Airlines Ecommerce 40

Dynatrace

JULY 19, 2024

Dynatrace does this by automatically creating a dependency map of your IT ecosystem, pinpointing the technologies in your stack and how they interact with each other, including servers, processes, application services, and web applications across data centers and multicloud environments. Q: What was the cause of the outage?

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 21, 2024

Friday July 19th provided an unprecedented example of the inherent dangers of kernel programming, and has been called the largest outage in the history of information technology. This was caused by a config update by a security company for their widely used product that included a kernel driver on Windows systems.

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

On the other hand, although big tech went from villain to hero in a short period of time because of the crisis, increased dependency on technology will bring renewed scrutiny to big tech. A long-lasting reduction in demand for global travel makes it impossible for large airlines to service debt or top-up underfunded employee pension funds.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. In contrast to this, numerous types of assistive technologies are designed to make plain text accessible to as wide a variety of people as possible.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Yet it isn’t the tech that disrupts, it’s socio-economic change that creates conditions that a technology can exploit. Although a wide range, it suggests that airlines and hotels will have to appeal to leisure travelers to fill seats and beds. Tech isn’t the catalyst , but it can be the beneficiary.

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Baron Schwartz

MARCH 8, 2019

Have we benefited nothing from advances in technology? Events such as airline flights, auto-added by GMail from flight confirmation receipts, are visible to you but invisible to others. It can easily take 30-45 minutes of calls and emails to schedule a 30-minute call. Is this really the best we can do? It blows my mind.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

In addition, they can log contacts outside the company, such as taxi rides, airline flights, and meals at restaurants, so that community members can be notified if an employee was exposed to COVID-19. Community contacts are reported to managers who communicate with outside points of contact, such as airlines, taxi companies, and restaurants.

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Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52

ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 25, 2020

In addition, they can log contacts outside the company, such as taxi rides, airline flights, and meals at restaurants, so that community members can be notified if an employee was exposed to COVID-19. Community contacts are reported to managers who communicate with outside points of contact, such as airlines, taxi companies, and restaurants.

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Airlines Mobile Analytics C++ 52