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Welcome to the lastminute.com Technology Blog.

Here you can read posts written by lastminute.com engineers about our work, the technologies we use and the products we build to enrich the lives of travellers around the world.

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    This article discusses the transformation of a synchronous process in the context of lastminute.com's customer journey for travel planning. The existing system was complex and resource-intensive due to its all-in-one nature, causing scaling and deployment challenges. The article presents the evolved system that separates responsibilities into microservices using message-driven communication. [...]

    Lambda Integration with MSK and KrakenD

    Lambda Integration with MSK and KrakenD

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    API Gateways can be a simple way to expose asynchronous communication without revealing too many details about it but, is not always an easy task to implement. In this post, I explore a way to expose Kafka topics in a well-known API Gateway (KrakenD) while circumventing multiple limitations. [...]