Challenge

Travelers looking for the best vacation rentals often have to manually search dozens of disparate websites to find deals. The fragmentation of the vacation rental market made it difficult to compare prices and availability across different platforms efficiently.

Solution

I engineered VacayPlanet, a high-performance vacation deals aggregator. The system was built to handle massive data volume and concurrency:

• Large-Scale Web Scraping: Developed a distributed scraping engine capable of parsing over 100 different travel websites simultaneously.
• Data Normalization: Implemented algorithms to standardize diverse data formats into a unified listing structure, ensuring consistent search results.
• High-Performance Search: Indexed approximately 100,000 active rental listings for instant filtering and retrieval.

Result

The platform successfully aggregated a massive inventory of vacation rentals, providing users with a "single pane of glass" to find the best deals without opening dozens of tabs.