TRAVEL.WIN
Smarter Use of AWS for Sustainable Growth
With experienced co-founders from companies such as Expedia, Hotels.com, Enterprise Rent a Car, and Delta Vacations, Travel.win knew from the start what kind of company to build. Purposefully lean, with trusted partners ensuring smooth and seamless operations – and available for value-driven features and improvements.
Travel.win’s original technology, an ad hoc AWS deployment, worked well as a proof of concept. But very quickly, the company saw a few key challenges that required better engineering:
- Ready the system for scaling to support larger customers and user volumes
- Reduce operations incidents that require significant time from the CTO and developers
- Prepare foundation for switching to cloud-native, modernized development
Rather than taking on the expense and logistical complexity of growing a large in-house technology team, Travel.win began a search for a partner that felt like part of the team, but offered both broader and deeper experience and the flexibility to expand and contract as needed. They learned about the success of SevenPico’s Software Development as a Service” model, and signed on right away.
"It’s an incredible feeling knowing that our technology is in good hands, ready to scale whenever we need it to but without sucking up overhead in the meantime. SevenPico’s on-demand model allows my senior team and me to focus on our vision of delivering real value to our customers and their audiences."
Migration and More
Travel.win first signed on SevenPico to migrate their initial ad hoc AWS deployment to a well architected, clean AWS implementation. SevenPico’s infrastructure design and infrastructure-as-code modules addressed all issues related to scaling, reducing operations incidents, and general modernization. In fact, the system has experienced zero downtime related to infrastructure since the migration. This has led Travel.win to lean on SevenPico for significantly more.
Today, SevenPico is Travel.win’s partner for implementing software-development-lifecycle best practices while also managing monthly operations, supporting monitoring and observability of the system.
Travel.win has become a huge champion of SevenPico’s Full Service, No Waste model:
Full Service:
- Fractional Dev Ops Leadership with built-in availability and diverse experience
- Transparency in the form of weekly & monthly status & progress reports
- Risk mitigation through disaster recovery, knowledge redundancy, breach defense & clean code
No Waste:
- Efficiency of well-built, cloud-first systems designed for resilience and agility
- “Spike and hum” model of low cost operations with feature-on-demand burst capacity.
- No standing army of developers sitting idle or focusing on low value work
Background
Travel.win builds customized travel stores for companies looking to increase consumer engagement. By drawing people in through loyalty and rewards programs and providing exclusive savings on a wide variety of worldwide travel options, Travel.win boosts corporate revenue and customer retention in tandem.