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tl;dr: distributed systems are hard.

• chasd00 4y ago
  if i remember my lore correctly it's not a distributed system. It was originally either a mainframe or like AS400 application. I want to say it was related to Saber somehow... maybe they leased it. When i interviewed there years ago they were porting it to some kind of Java stack or maybe they had already ported it and were building it out further. On a tangent, I have to admit, their interview was the best one i've ever had. Very competent people, well rounded process, it was actually more fun than stressful but super challenging too. / this was a lonng time ago, like 10+ years, it could be a very very different animal now
  • bronson 4y ago
    I don't think Southwest was ever on Sabre. Their scheduling used to be in-house, now on Amadeus. Computerized operations started with Braniff's software and have ... ah, grown since then. Name almost any technology and it's probably running somewhere in their stack.
• francisofascii 4y ago
  or maybe you meant to say logistics with little slack is hard
• horns4lyfe 4y ago
  Especially when you outsource it to the lowest bidding WITCH shop you can find. Incredible that the US is still pumping out MBAs that see IT as a cost center. If you are of a sufficient size and depend on software to function, you are a software company and need to allocate your resources accordingly.