Travel Metasearch and Booking Engine

Background

  • XYZ Travel is a premium travel advisory service.
  • An opportunity exists to launch a new complimentary product.

Product Requirements

Search

  • Flights
    • Departure and arrival time
    • Airport
    • Passengers
  • Hotels
    • Location
    • Number of rooms
  • Cars
    • Model
    • Passengers

Product Requirements

Booking

  • Flights, hotels, cars are all bookable.
  • Guest checkout available.
  • Registered users have access to:
    • Travel history
    • Past searches

Challenges

Multiple Sources of Truth

Payments

Relevant Past Work

Smart Fashion

  • Ecommerce Platform
  • Payment transfer dynamic

Imagine

  • Financial Data Platform
  • Aggregates multiple complex external datasets

Potential Architecture

  • Cache state of external partners, update frequently
  • Websockets to ensure external state updates live on clients

Potential Team

Craig
Project Manager
Linus
Senior Engineer
Steve
DevOps Engineer
Patricia
Designer

Timeline

  • 3 months
    • MVP
    • Existing agreements in place
    • Documented data feeds
  • 10 months
    • Fewer scope for schedule tradeoffs
    • Time to establish relationships
    • Documented data feeds

Questions?