Originally Posted by
emcampbe
…i always thought it would be amazing to see what kind of modern system an Apple, Google, or other tech company, could build today for the industry…
Other tech companies already have and continue to do so, for free even. All companies like UA have to do is implement it for their own domain/data models. Which UA appears to be currently working on.
To steal a page out of the early ‘00 when one wanted to know if their favorite video game was getting a sequel soon - check the job postings of the company to see what they are working on: (couple examples)
https://careers.united.com/job/13841...gy-chicago-il/
https://careers.united.com/job/13896...gy-houston-tx/
There are/have been postings looking for people with kafka (linkedin), spark(UC Berkeley), k8(google), graphQL(fb) react(fb) etc experience - these are data processing, automated scaling/management, data query for APIs, front-end SPA monstrosities - all available to use for free.
Really hope they encourage in-house contribution or make donations to all of the open source code they use.
Originally Posted by
emcampbe
…One big hurdle (I would think) is how an airline (any airline) could do this without ‘unplugging’ from the bigger system that is still on ‘todays’ tech…
This happens all the time - large enterprises moving in-house apps to distributed data centers (“cloud”) or new apps that still need to work with old and with old partner systems - the layer that connects it, is called middleware. Kinda like duct tape. The middle layer makes the data fit into the old/new system - just moving the same data around, kinda like csv to xlsx to pdf
To really over simplify it all, its all just data being acquired, transformed, consumed & stored.
How well its implemented is another story entirely.