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sabre.com is the company blog at sabre.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Sabre forges 10-year partnership with Google to build the future of travel”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link sabre.com as a source for Sabre's company announcements and its history, including the SABRE reservation system's origins and IBM mainframe use. The comments are about the company and its systems, not the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Sabre forges 10-year partnership with Google to build the future of travel2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-21
What Hacker News says?
Sabre Labs | Principal Software Developer, Full-Stack | Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (Southlake) | ONSITE Sabre Labs is the dedicated emerging tech and innovation lab at Sabre, and we’re looking for a full-stack developer who leans towards the backend of the spectrum. We are tasked with exploring and prototyping new product experiences using the emerging technologies with the highest potential impact on the travel indus…
Comment linking /insights/labs/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Submitted React and Observables from RxDB as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> there’s not really a difference between a database and a file system. Fundamentally they do the same thing, and are sort of just optimizations for particular problem-sets. Conceptually that is quite true, though the domain dependencies make a lot of the code end up looking quite different. But the first true database (pre-relational!) was developed for SABRE, American Airlines' computerized reservation system, in…
Comment linking /files/Sabre-History.pdf
on “Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases”Submitted Sabre forges 10-year partnership with Google to build the future of travel as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>but a pure Linux mainframe is surprisingly competitive not just in compute and throughput but also in pricing. It's not competitive when you consider what long-time IBM mainframe customers actually do. E.g. SABRE airline and travel reservation system was one of the first IBM mainframe customers in 1960 with the IBM 7090 and then upgraded to System 360 and then the newer Z mainframes. SABRE's multi-decade experience…
Comment linking /insights/a-journey-to-tackle-legacy-code-in-online-travel/
on “Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM”Submitted 5 hacks to see at the next travel hackathon in Singapore as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLooking at Sabre's own timeline, I cringe at what I suspect the codebase must look like. From what I read between the lines here, it looks like neither a carefully maintained legacy system, nor a proper rewrite at any point along the way, but more like 50 years of things bolted onto each other: http://www.sabre.com/home/about/sabre_history
Comment linking /home/about/sabre_history
on “All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage”Marissa Mayer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_Mayer By all accounts she seemed to be a great product manager, but product management isn't organizational leadership. Likewise there is Hugh Jones - https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/hugh-jones-to-head-t... Hugh Jones was known for tenacious leadership in large volume business operations, but experience in retail and product was limited or absent.
Comment linking /insights/releases/hugh-jones-to-head-travelocity-global-as-michelle-peluso-announces-departure/
on “Overconfident Students, Dubious Employers”Sabre announced a 10-year deal with Google to migrate to the cloud. Coming soon, containerized microservices running System/360 assembler? https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-forges-10-year...
Comment linking /insights/releases/sabre-forges-10-year-partnership-with-google-to-build-the-future-of-travel/
on “Oldest software system in continuous use”sabre, the company that owns and builds the current version of the system SABRE used by major companies today , uses all of those things the parent and you mentioned > Google Cloud-native infrastructure that is scalable and secure. Microservice-enabled architecture that supports modularity. API-first approach for an open platform. [0] > We rebuilt Sabre from the ground up: cloud-native technology, AI baked into the…
Comment linking /about/
on “The Problem That Built an Industry”Sabre has a 10-year deal with GCP to do just that. It's going to take a lot more than 10 years to get the thing off System/360 running in a bunker under Omaha airport though. https://www.sabre.com/insights/releases/sabre-forges-10-year...
Comment linking /insights/releases/sabre-forges-10-year-partnership-with-google-to-build-the-future-of-travel/
on “Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 hours”
