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This appears to be a demo and not searching real data? If so, the title is a bit misleading. Also, what makes this interesting from a tech point of view? I pre
by potamic 3y ago
This appears to be a demo and not searching real data? If so, the title is a bit misleading.
Also, what makes this interesting from a tech point of view? I presume conventional travel sites are slow not because of search but because of a bunch of other things they do like personalization, recommendations, promotions, user content etc.
- mgl 3y agoThank you for your comment. Travel search sites are slow due to the explosion of the search space due to increasing number of search parameters (dimensions) a modern search engine with personalized experience should provide. Many large travel operators and hubs still use pre-computation of search results using expensive RDBMS clusters what comes with two major problems: a) you are almost always a bit out of sync, so any price and availability confirmation requires multiple real-time lookups, b) more importantly: your are bound to supporting a limited number of search options, and these options have to be static whereas nowadays more and more people would like to travel to "a nice location where the forecasted sea temperature next weekend is between this and that". The point of this demo is to show that you can solve these problems with the right software engineering and cheap hardware.