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You know Google's flight scheduling software runs on Borg right ? After they acquired ITA, they have few openings in between, and are yet, apparently, one of t
by thorweur234 5y ago
You know Google's flight scheduling software runs on Borg right ?
After they acquired ITA, they have few openings in between, and are yet, apparently, one of the biggest consumers of quotas.
- the_optimist 5y agoWhat's a quota?
- dataangel 5y agoI think he means they one of the biggest consumers of cluster resources. Each group within google probably has a quota for how many resources they are allowed to use. It's unclear here if their consumption is so huge because they are successful or inefficient though...
- math-dev 5y agoDoes anybody know what they actually do? I see them mentioned all the time but I don’t get it. Is it just flight information or do they do pricing analysis and other stuff
- p_l 5y agoQPX (ITA's, and now Google's) system is responsible for calculating and searching airfares, i.e. the complete "solution" for "I want to get from A to B with those constraints". It's what responds when you ask google flight for a route, essentially. This is quite computationally complex due to many dimensions involved in airfare calculations. This system is essentially implemented on top of SBCL with some small bits of C++ (responsible, IIRC, for handling memory-mapped airfare data files).
- math-dev 5y agoThanks!!