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Architecture advantages over the phone based system described upthread are obvious. The reason United chose Couchbase is because it’s designed for offline updat
by jchanimal 4y ago
Architecture advantages over the phone based system described upthread are obvious. The reason United chose Couchbase is because it’s designed for offline updates. So if a plane, phone, or airport is disconnected they can still do the data entry work and reconcile asynchronously.
- apelapan 4y agoBut the Southwest system is not "phone-based" by design, I presume? They are going via phone because the decision support system for ops/crew control are down/unusable? If they've resorted to doing all their scheduling manually with pen and paper, any data pushed to the edge (air crews, ground staff etc) will need to be transmitted in a similarly manual fashion. The gate/ground/air crews are not making autonomous decisions about who is flying what, when and where. That is decided by some ops/crew control structure in the airline.