Case Study: Orbitz achieves faster deployments, improved code quality, and significant cost savings with Atlassian

Orbitz Worldwide migrates to Git with help from Atlassian

Orbitz Worldwide, a leading online travel site operating in more than 180 countries and processing over $11 billion in annual transactions, faced scaling and performance problems with a centralized version control system. Slow operations and long delays for remote teams threatened site stability and costly downtime, so Orbitz needed a faster, more scalable development workflow.

Orbitz migrated to Git using Bitbucket and other Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, HipChat), enabling easier integration, faster code changes, and improved code review via pull requests. The move — including a CI pipeline for the mobile team that supports multiple brands and enables production deployments every three days — took about 2,500 work-hours and has saved hundreds of thousands of dollars while catching bugs earlier and accelerating development.

Orbitz

Alex Holtz

Senior Software Engineer