orbitz world wide an architectures response to growth and change
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An architecture’s response to growth and change
Brian ZimmerSenior ArchitectOrbitz World Wide
QCon SF 2007November 9, 2007
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Time
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Airport
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Orbitz World Wide
• Five major B2C online travel agency brands across the globe
• Orbitz for Business
• Orbitz Worldwide’s white label business powers airlines and hotel websites
• Away.com, an online travel content brand including GORP and Outside Online
• Orbitz Worldwide’s brand portfolio includes over 14 million unique monthly visitors
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Additional Perspective
500
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Additional Perspective
100,000,000
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Agenda
•Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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Disclaimer
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Bumps
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Agenda
•Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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Orbot
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Services
Webapp
Travel Business Services
Switching Services Switching Services
Supplier Services
Suppliers
Supplier Services
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Matrix
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Services
Webapp
Travel Business Services
abstraction
Switching Services Switching Services
Supplier Services
Suppliers
Supplier Services
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Agenda
•Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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The world according to Orbitz – at launch.
Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps, used with permission.
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Obvious: Money
Photo courtesy of Chuck Clark, used with permission.
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Obvious: Time Zones
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Obvious: Content
Bonjour
Guten Tag
Hello
नमःतेनमःतेनमःतेनमःते
Здраств
уйте
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Obvious?
airItinerary.isDomestic()
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Questions
• i18n?
• l10n?
•Unified paths?
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Answers
• JScience for measurement, geo
• ICU4j for text and content formatters, comparisons
• Joda Time for calendars, date arithmetic, time zones
• CMS for content
• Education for developers
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Classic
Switching Services
Supplier Services
Suppliers
Webapp
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International & White Label Platform
Webapp
Travel Business Services
Switching Services
Supplier Services
Suppliers
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Localized Presentation
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Travel Business Services
Conductor
+ Unified Model
+ Unified Paths
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Database
One schema
+ Instance per brand per site
-Unicode
-Universal time
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Database
Federated
+ Service-managed
+ Unicode
+ UTC
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The world according to Orbitz – now.
Image courtesy of http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/, used with permission.
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Agenda
•Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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Failures Happen
http://www.archive.org/details/Pa2096Tacoma
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Spring-wired, Jini-connected
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Monitoring
• Logging
•Complex Event Processing
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Customers Are Waiting
Photo courtesy of Steven Balogh, used with permission.
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Java Concurrency Techniques
• java.lang.Thread
• java.nio
• java.util.concurrent
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Futures
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Caching
• Deflection
• Availability
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Deflection
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Rate Cache
Jini
+ database
+ application-specific partitioning
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Rate Cache
In-memory distributed cache
+ application-agnostic partitioning
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Availability
•TBS
•Web Session
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Cache Cloud
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Tree
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Airport
