Scaling up a travel platform operating in 34 markets
Migrating eSky’s backend from Zend to Symfony cut the system’s market adoption time from 2 months to 2 weeks and earned the company 10 awards for product innovation.
About eSky
eSky in a worldwide online travel agency now present in 50 markets, providing booking for 1030 airlines and 1.3M hotels and flats.
Travelers using the company’s search engine can secure a flight, a hotel, a car, and insurance that are essential for having memorable experiences on a trip. At least 180M users per year visit eSky’s domains that rely on the backend The Software House helped to transform.
Country
Poland
Industry
Travel & transportation
Timeline
07.2014 - 09.2017
eSky in a worldwide online travel agency now present in 50 markets, providing booking for 1030 airlines and 1.3M hotels and flats.
Travelers using the company’s search engine can secure a flight, a hotel, a car, and insurance that are essential for having memorable experiences on a trip. At least 180M users per year visit eSky’s domains that rely on the backend The Software House helped to transform.
1030
registered airlines
50+
localized domains
1.3M
hotels and flats available
The challenge
eSky started as a booking platform operating in Poland. The company was launching localized domains for new countries in the portfolio, where each website connected with one system for the booking engine created in PHP Zend.
The engine processed enormous volumes of information about airline, hotel, car, and insurance availability.
Booking information had to be displayed in 18+ languages and currencies with 13 filter categories changing the search.
The management soon couldn’t service increasing waves of users or connect new domains to their system without performance issues that caused a loss of the customer’s interest.
An internal technology audit found out that PHP Symfony could carry the weight if eSky had access to developers who mastered it.
Partnership goal To modernize a leading travel platform in preparation for future scalability
Before
An outdated backend and the lack of Symfony developers prevented eSky from scaling up into lucrative markets
After
Under The Software House’s lead, eSky’s platform regained stability and became ready to service new millions of users
The Software House hand-picked professionals who joined eSky's team under a hybrid model
We worked on
Team formation
eSky’s stack update required more Backend developers on board.
The Software House filled the talent and knowledge gap in weeks where the company would have needed months to do so. The line-up included 11 PHP developers.
Our partnership
For over 3 years, our joint team was rebuilding the system’s back-end components in Symfony. The newer version of the product allowed eSky to enter markets 77% faster.
Technology choice
Angular 2, Typescript (frontend), PHP Symfony (backend), Kakunin, BabelSheet.
What eSky achieved
The Software House started by introducing eSky’s developers to the basics of Symfony for the teams to sync. The entire backend in Zend needed an urgent rewrite. After our lead developer presented the migration plan, 13 of our professionals begun working on 3 out of 4 of the platform’s components.
First, we re-integrated static pages with travel content with the backend.
We continued with the optimization of eSky’s transaction process in the BBD (behavior-driven development) methodology.
Transaction functions that needed updating included the quick search, the booking offer list with prices, the order form, and the confirmation page.
Our third project involved rewriting the “Deals” module with pricing alerts for airlines.
The team’s last massive undertaking was dealing with the hotel booking process.
We needed to develop under rules set by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard so that eSky acquires a critical certificate needed for credit card processing. They did.
The public’s opinion of the platform
After the much-needed update that finished in 2017, the platform’s performance and ease of use won eSky 10 product-related awards in the following years.
• Page of the year 2018
• 2018 +Digital Enterprise award
• (Two) Internet Effectiveness award for 2018
• e.Comm award 2018
• e.Comm award 2017
• ekomersy 2017 award
• Best Online Travel Agency 2017
• Good Design 2017 award
• APG Airlines award for 2017
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