Big Data & IoT Summit 2017: Skyscanner aims for half-second daily downtime

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When building a data platform, it's not actually good to get it right first time, suggests Skyscanner engineer Michael Pollet

Michael Pollet, a software engineer at airline price comparison website Skyscanner, was brave enough to take the stage and talk about what the company had learned from a year of - in his words - "b...

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