Foreword

I have worked in the software industry for more than 15 years, the last four years as CIO of Sabre Holdings and the prior four as CTO of Travelocity. At Sabre, on top of our large online presence through Travelocity, we transact $70 billion in annual gross travel sales through our network and serve over 200 airline customers worldwide. On a given day, we will process over 700 million transactions and handle 32,000 transactions per second at peak. Working with massive streams of data is what we do, and finding better ways to work with this data and improve throughput is my role as CIO.

Troy is our VP over Architecture at Travelocity, where I have the pleasure of watching his influence on a daily basis. His perspective on current and ...

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