1. An architecture’s response to
growth and change
Brian Zimmer
Senior Architect
Orbitz World Wide
QCon SF 2007
November 9, 2007

2. Time
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3. Airport
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4. 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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5. Additional Perspective
500
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6. Additional Perspective
100,000,000
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7. Agenda
• Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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8. Disclaimer
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9. Bumps
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10. Agenda
• Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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11. Orbot
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12. Services
Webapp
Travel Business Services
Switching Services Switching Services
Supplier Services Supplier Services
Suppliers
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13. Matrix
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14. Services
Webapp
Travel Business Services
abstraction
Switching Services Switching Services
Supplier Services Supplier Services
Suppliers
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15. Agenda
• Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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16. The world according to Orbitz – at launch.
Maps courtesy of www.theodora.com/maps, used with permission.
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17. Obvious: Money
Photo courtesy of Chuck Clark, used with permission.
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18. Obvious: Time Zones
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19. Obvious: Content
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аств Guten
Здр Tag
Bonjour
नम ते
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20. Obvious?
airItinerary.isDomestic()
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21. Questions
• i18n?
• l10n?
• Unified paths?
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22. 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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23. Classic
Webapp
Switching Services
Supplier Services
Suppliers
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24. International & White Label Platform
Webapp
Travel Business Services
Switching Services
Supplier Services
Suppliers
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25. Localized Presentation
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26. Travel Business Services
Conductor
+ Unified Model
+ Unified Paths
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27. Database
One schema
+ Instance per brand per site
-Unicode
-Universal time
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28. Database
Federated
+ Service-managed
+ Unicode
+ UTC
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29. The world according to Orbitz – now.
Image courtesy of http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/, used with permission.
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30. Agenda
• Walk Through
• Going Global and White Label
• Operational Efficiency
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31. Failures Happen
http://www.archive.org/details/Pa2096Tacoma
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32. Spring-wired, Jini-connected
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33. Monitoring
• Logging
• Complex Event Processing
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34. Customers Are Waiting
Photo courtesy of Steven Balogh, used with permission.
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35. Java Concurrency Techniques
•java.lang.Thread
•java.nio
•java.util.concurrent
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36. Futures
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37. Caching
• Deflection
• Availability
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38. Deflection
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39. Rate Cache
Jini
+ database
+ application-specific partitioning
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40. Rate Cache
In-memory distributed cache
+ application-agnostic partitioning
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41. Availability
• TBS
• Web Session
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42. Cache Cloud
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43. Tree
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44. Airport
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45. Q&A
bzimmer@orbitz.com
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