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An Architecture's Response to Growth and Change

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In this presentation, Brian Zimmer, Senior Architect at Orbitz World Wide, unveils Orbitz.com’s architecture and its evolution over the years as the site grew from a US domestic flights booking website to an international website offering flight booking, accommodation, car rental, cruises, vacations, and event booking.

Bio

Brian Zimmer is the lead of the Architecture and Infrastructure group at Orbitz Worldwide. Brian is responsible for directing the development of the company's distributed infrastructure, reviewing technical designs for adherence to architectural principles and overseeing the creation of domain models and service APIs.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Sep 14, 2008

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  • Unable to view video

    by Sandesh T,

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    I am having problems getting the presentation started. The status bar shows "Connecting to flv.thruhere.net" and the video doesn't start.

    Regards
    Sandesh

  • Video problems

    by Danesh Zaki,

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    Similar issue as the earlier commenter; video does not start after clicking on play.

  • Re: Video problems

    by Brian Edwards,

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    I concur. It actually started for me and played 5 seconds or so but then stopped. Hosting server might be getting slammed or something. Regardless this presentation looks very interesting. Will check back later. Thanks!

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