Amadeus is a Global Distribution System (GDS), meaning they take travel and tourism data from airlines, car companies, hotel chains, cruise lines, etc., and distribute it to travel agencies, corporations, travel websites, airports, and other distributors. As the world's leading GDS, Amadeus must manage a huge workload daily, with absolutely no room for service outages, supporting:- 3.7 million bookings per day- 1.6 billion transactions per day- 45 billion database accesses per day- 13 petabytes of storage- Response time of less than 0.5 milliseconds- Thousands of developers pushing new features (100+ changes per day)