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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

Today, I wouldn’t consider buying a device that couldn’t help me find a restaurant or hotel. “Whenever possible, it is far better to slowly integrate a great candidate in as an adviser or part-time contractor and let things play out,” writes Suthipongchai. Tomorrow, we’ll run his detailed TDD checklist.

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Smart Hotel Infrastructure: How to Adopt IoT in Hospitality

Altexsoft

Every now and then, a big hotel brand introduces its own take on the “hotel room of the future”. The Internet of Things (IoT) and machine learning that are powering smart hotel applications are accessible to everyone bold enough to try. What is a smart hotel? IoT hospitality applications. IoT in hospitality use cases.

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Technical Feasibility in Software Engineering: Things to Consider Before Development Starts

Altexsoft

The authorities admitted that the previous 2024 deadline for human landing “ was not grounded on technical feasibility.”. Technical feasibility inspects whether software can be built at all with available tools and experts. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the technical side of feasibility that is our immediate area of expertise.

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Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

Altexsoft

OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. With the strategic acquisition of Tourico Holidays and GTA wholesalers, Hotelbeds expanded its portfolio to encompass over 300,000 hotels across 200 destination countries.

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Price Forecasting: Applying Machine Learning Approaches to Electricity, Flights, Hotels, Real Estate, and Stock Pricing

Altexsoft

The goal of machine learning is to build systems capable of finding patterns in data, learning from it without human intervention and explicit reprogramming. A model that forecasts prices with the highest accuracy rate will be chosen to power a system or an application. Deployment of a model into a software system or application.

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Data Collection for Machine Learning: Steps, Methods, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

While today’s world abounds with data, gathering valuable information presents a lot of organizational and technical challenges, which we are going to address in this article. Read our article on Hotel Data Management to have a full picture of what information can be collected to boost revenue and customer satisfaction in hospitality.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

Altexsoft

Often, the tour operator functions as a wholesaler, buying tickets, hotel rooms, and other travel products in bulk at discounted rates, combining them, and selling those packages in significant quantities directly or indirectly. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel.