| Having worked on this personally, Deltamatic runs on HPUX & pretty much C++. My info is maybe 10years old, but I doubt much has changed. These infrastructure type things are incredibly complicated. Not in the “Newfangled” framework way, but rather the business implications of real world impact of potentially bad code. I consider it one of the highlights of my career going thru the Delta Northwest Merger without shit hitting the fan. We were writing decrementer & while loops instead of for loops because there was a measurable performance & stability impact. There’s something to be said about software that has withstood the test of time. I’m impressed that the team is able to handle outages as well as they do. Having had some experience working with the folks at Delta & Northwest, I’d say they’re pretty impressive people. I’d be happy to steal some for my startup if they’d be willing to part with the flight benefits & tenure. Full Disclosure: I was not a Delta Employee, but worked for a startup that built the checkin systems (which got acquired by NCR). I got to work with Delta as a client. |