Cloud computing on Wheels 12308 passenger ticketing website

According to the relevant data shows that the number of daily travel by plane and train in China has been rising year by day, since 2014, China's daily travel by plane and train total has reached 6 million people, airplanes and trains have become the main transportation of long-distance travel of our residents. But our country still has 50 million people travel by car every day, this is a consumer group that can not be neglected.

Air tickets, train tickets market has already achieved a unified national online booking platform, while in the car ticket market, despite the huge market space, but because of the decentralized passenger station, lack of unified management, integration of resources and other reasons, there has been no national booking platform to fill this gap, Until 12308 of the emergence of the passenger transport industry has completely broken the traditional mode of ticketing, so that passengers can enjoy the Internet to bring convenience.

12308 is a service for domestic passengers of the road passenger Internet Information Service platform, can be real-time inquiries, booking, return to sign car tickets, docking stations throughout the city bus ticket data. At present, 12308 has achieved the National 61 Cities 459 bus Station's online ticket booking, domestic 327 cities 5,293 bus station's automobile timetable inquiry, the passenger station information service. Bus Ticket online inquiries and booking services are available for road passengers in these cities, including direct/roundtrip/joint/off-site.

The critical challenge of it cost and trust

As the overall business grew, the team's technical department faced severe challenges. 12308 belong to the booking site, but also belong to the transport category of important booking channels, this site overall performance requirements are very high, especially in the rush hour, the site's high concurrency will cause database access refused to connect, resulting in the site into suspended animation state.

For 12308 such booking site, the biggest technical bottleneck and Taobao and other electrical problems encountered, that is a short period of high concurrent volume. Purchasing a hardware device will bring a lot of it cost, and when the trip is over, the equipment will be idle and unnecessary waste. The bigger the business, the more cost it will require to do hardware maintenance, a bottomless pit for teams like 12308.

To this end, 12308 of the technical team abandoned their purchase of hardware equipment, rental data center of the traditional station scheme, the choice of a distributed cloud computing architecture, the use of cloud services to the high elasticity of the characteristics of the business in different periods of demand. And the passenger transport industry is the livelihood of the industry, the system in case of paralysis, the impact of a very wide range, the company's technical team in the choice of cloud computing services are very cautious, in the repeated comparison of domestic cloud computing services, determined to build the system on the Ali Cloud.

By using the flexible services of Ali Cloud computing, 12308 eliminates huge hardware and human costs. 12308 Current application Aliyun cloud server, load all horizontal, database and other services, with the increase of 12308 data, database performance has formed a certain bottleneck, Aliyun DBA assistance 12308 complete the optimization of data structure, so that 12308 smoothly through the Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day and other visits peak.

In the process of communication Sage told reporters that 12308.com is still a very small internet company, and the passenger transport industry is a large 400 billion revenue industry, we want to do is a large platform covering the national passenger station, in addition to the technical aspects of a lot of problems encountered. The first is the trust problem, the passenger station is worried about the ticket on the Internet, as well as ticket funds in the payment process of security issues; travellers because they do not know this site and in the ticket window also can not find the relevant information, mistakenly thought to have encountered a cheater website.

Over the past year 12308 of the team has been working hard, relying on the service flow optimization to improve service quality, has been in the passenger transport industry and the passenger has established a good reputation. Chen always said that whenever users in our platform booking to the ticket, a smooth ride, arrived at the destination, Kua we convenient travel, give us a bit of praise, our team feel very happy.

Ride the clouds and the wheels run faster

In the process of promoting business development, with 12308 platform to reach the cooperation of the passenger transport enterprises, and then feel the Internet and cloud brought about by the changes, cloud computing reliable services Let these passenger enterprises taste the sweetness, with the help of the cloud services of these passenger enterprises of the wheels run faster.

During holidays and other travel peaks, travel passengers through the Internet in advance after the purchase of tickets, can be self-service access to tickets, not only reduce the Passenger Center ticket window and station crowd too much pressure, but also improve the passenger transport industry operating efficiency. More importantly, through the purchase of tickets in advance, the passenger transport center can reasonably deploy the vehicle size and frequency through the passenger ticket data, and reduce the operation cost of the transportation enterprises.

The Internet and cloud computing have begun to integrate into everyday life, and the power of cloud and data not only helps small businesses to have bat-scale it capabilities, but more importantly, the future of life will be closely linked to the cloud and data, the cloud has unwittingly fallen on everyone's side. 12308 changed the traditional mode of car ticket purchase, but also changed the way passengers travel, so that people can enjoy the convenience of the Internet. An internet start-up company, while solving the difficulty of people's travel, has also promoted the traditional service concept and operation mode of the passenger transport industry, and promoted the traditional service of people's livelihood to accelerate the migration to the Internet.