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Having worked with Sabre and Gallileo (did they merge?), I, too, can attest to the fun and joy of working with airline res systems. Wacky XML, fixed length fiel
by waterside81 15y ago
Having worked with Sabre and Gallileo (did they merge?), I, too, can attest to the fun and joy of working with airline res systems. Wacky XML, fixed length fields, unique fields that aren't really unique. It's a right of passage that most devs should take so that they (1) Promise never to build something like this and (2) Learn to never work in travel.
- namdnay 15y agoThe problem is that we're having to keep perfect compatibility with stuff that was done in the seventies. So you quickly end up with something just as (if not more) horrendous as the Windows or Office codebase. Take EDIFACT for example...
- waterside81 15y agoOh for sure compatibility is a huge issue and getting airlines to update and keep in step with things like herding cats. I don't envy the role of a dev who works for one of the large GDS's
- r00fus 15y ago> Wacky XML, fixed length fields, unique fields that aren't really unique. If you've ever done enterprise integration, sadly, this is far from exceptional - in fact, it's the norm.