In Memory Computing: High Performance and Highly Efficient Web Application Scaling for the Travel Industry
Schedule
June 20, 09:55am
Track
With exponential search growth across products ranges, legacy backend platforms and a desire to deliver content faster and more efficiently – the travel sector is ripe for improvement with the use of in-memory technologies.
This keynote provides a consultants view of how in-memory systems are gaining traction for use cases within the travel sector, particularly hotel availability and rate search, flight scheduling and connection calculations - and the benefits this technology brings in terms of lower latency, scalability and cost.
Speakers
Chris
Goodall
Director
at
CG Consultancy (UK) Limited
Director of CG Consultancy, Chris Goodall formerly held senior technology positions for companies such as IBM, UBS Investment Bank and Citigroup and has over 17 years’ technology experience from development through to management. CG Consultancy specialises in tech turnaround for fast growth businesses, due diligence reviews for investors as well providing and managing consultant teams for project implementation. He is also Co-Founder of software development firm www.fiveonetwo. CG Consultancy has developed an industry leading solution, using in-memory technology for JacTravel – an established £350m t/o provider of hotel accommodations. CG Consultancy have supplied a full Agile software development team in addition to Chris being interim CIO for the large scale integration project following a company acquisition by JacTravel in 2015.
