I am ending this year’s newsletter with an unconventional format. This week I bring you a total of 4 articles. Each of the article describes a different part of my software researcher journey working on a particularly difficult problem: where to gather people from different parts of the world with the smallest footprint.
The first part of the series describes the group travel problem and why it is extremely hard to solve.
There are more than 300 million flights per year
Second part describes the first approach I have designed in the most common database format: row storage.
Two-thirds of corporate travelers say they extended a business trip for leisure.
The third part of my journey was the realization of the scale of the problem, and how the traditional approaches fail. And probably why no one in the industry provides this type of solution.
One in five frequent travelers say they travel for sales or project work more than once a month.
The final article describes how I managed to design a low level optimized bit encoded storage to power the recommendations in a blazing fast fashion!
This journey was equally challenging and rewarding, and i am thankful i had the chance to work in this industry. I am looking forward to the new challenges in a completely different industry, where I have already worked for a couple years: accounting software.
PS: I wish you a nice holiday season, and see you next year!
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