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How to Engineer Your Technical Debt Response

DZone

The Southwest Airlines fiasco from December 2022 and the FAA Notam database fiasco from January 2023 had one thing in common: their respective root causes were mired in technical debt. At its most basic, technical debt represents some kind of technology mess that someone has to clean up.

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Key Advantages of DBMS for Efficient Data Management

Scalegrid

Additionally, DBMS is critical in reservation systems, where it stores and manages records like ticket bookings, schedules, seat allocation, and other pertinent transaction data for airlines, hotels, and railways. The disadvantages of using a Database Management System (DBMS) include high cost, complexity, and dependence on technology.

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Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies

ScaleOut Software

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies

ScaleOut Software

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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Reinvention Risk Trade

The Agile Manager

Southwest Airlines has made headlines in recent days for all the wrong reasons: bad weather impacted air travel, which required Southwest to adjust plane and crew schedules. The culprit, according to people at Southwest quoted by the Wall Street Journal, was scheduling technology that could not sufficiently scale and is nearing end-of-life.

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Voluntary Contact Self-Tracing for Companies

ScaleOut Software

In addition, employees can manually track information about contacts they make while on business travel, such as during airline flights, taxi rides, and meals at restaurants. Enabling Technology: In-Memory Computing. That way, when an employee tests positive, these external contacts can be immediately alerted of possible exposure.

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Fundamentals

The Agile Manager

On the other hand, although big tech went from villain to hero in a short period of time because of the crisis, increased dependency on technology will bring renewed scrutiny to big tech. A long-lasting reduction in demand for global travel makes it impossible for large airlines to service debt or top-up underfunded employee pension funds.