Bun is a new JavaScript runtime, similar to Node.js or Deno. Unlike Node.js or Deno, however, Bun is built using WebKit’s JavaScriptCore instead of Chrome’s V8 engine. Designed as a drop-in replacement for Node.js, Bun is a single binar...
The online vacation rental industry relied mostly on requests for reservations for a very long period. The hope was that at least some of the properties would be open when guests inquired about them. Some of the managers would respond by st...
Blockchain technologies have the potential to upend the online travel agency (OTA) business model as consumers grow more comfortable with cryptocurrencies and digital wallets. Whether you're ready or not, it's now possible to purchase and e...
Early in 2019, Google launched Google Vacation rentals.Google Flight, Google Hotel, and then Google Vacation rentals.Since then, Google has teamed with major online travel agencies (OTAs) like Vrbo and TripAdvisor as well as key metasearch ...
The New York Times and Google Cloud have partnered to assist them in digitising their massive photo collection. It makes use of a variety of Google Cloud Platform technologies that let them store their images safely, give users a better sea...
Cloud Carbon Footprint provides a way for organizations to measure, monitor, and reduce their carbon emissions from the cloud. It supports connecting to multiple cloud providers, allowing you to get a full picture of your cloud emissions. ...
As digital and contactless forms of communication grow more popular within the hospitality sector, traveler expectations are evolving quickly. Travelers of today anticipate being able to purchase train tickets online, check into flights via...
Monte Carlo is a data observability platform. Using machine learning models, it infers and learns about data, identifying issues and notifying users when they arise. It allows our teams to maintain data quality across ETL pipelines, data la...
According to research, reacting to internet reviews—especially unfavourable ones—improves the trust that potential guests have in your hotel and increases their likelihood to think that you genuinely care about your customers. Online...
Embedding hub is a vector database for machine-learning embeddings, and quite similar to Milvus.For the support of neighbor operations, partitioning, versioning and access control, we can use Embedding hub for the embedding vector use cases...
Online travel agents are online platforms which help customers to get travel services, such as hotel rooms, flights and other forms of transportation. Essentially, an OTA functions as the link between vendors and travelers, selling travel...
Travel restrictions in 2020 and 2021 have facilitated the rise of the staycation. Even with international travel opening back up, between airline price hikes, Covid testing requirements and the complicated bureaucracy involved in going abro...
Zig is a new language that shares many attributes with C but with stronger typing, easier memory allocation, support for name spacing and a host of other features. Its syntax, however, is reminiscent of JavaScript rather than C, which some ...
Hoteliers are scrambling to meet 24/7 guest demands. With fewer staff, chatbots are shifting from luxury to necessity. The percentage of hoteliers offering chatbots on their websites is expected to rise to 29.2 percent before the end of 202...
Most of the guests want to see offers and advertisements that are personalized, and almost 50% want more personalized service before and during their trip. This is the main reason why all major hotel brands are investing in loyalty and pers...
If you’re using GitLab to manage your software delivery, you should also look at GitLab CI/CD for your continuous integration and continuous delivery needs. We’ve found it especially useful when used with on-premise GitLab and self-host...
Colima is becoming a popular open alternative to Docker for Desktop. It provisions the Docker container runtime in a Lima VM, configures the Docker CLI on macOS and handles port-forwarding and volume mounts. Colima uses containerd as runtim...
Apache Iceberg is an open table format for huge analytic datasets. Iceberg adds tables to compute engines including Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, Hive and Impala using a high-performance table format that works just like a SQL table. Ap...
Google Cloud Dataflow is a cloud-based data-processing service for both batch and real-time data streaming applications.It allows developers to set up processing pipelines for the integrating, preparing and analyzing large data sets, for ex...
New Distribution Capability, NDC for short, is an XML-based data transmission standard (NDC Standard) that was launched by the International Air Transportation Association (IATA) to transform the way the travel industry sells its products a...
Few years ago, Couchbase was seen primarily as a persistent cache that evolved from a merger of Membase and CouchDB. Since then, it has undergone steady improvement and an ecosystem of related tools and commercial offerings has grown up aro...
