Author: Stanislas Nichini, Software Engineering Manager at Groupon

Booking Tool — a monolith application built in 2014

One of Groupon’s key priorities is to have a frictionless booking experience for our merchants and customers. Booking Tool plays an important role in this strategy by providing a free booking management application to our merchants in International and North America. But this tool was not only originally focused on our merchants but also on our customers and operational teams. Booking Tool originated from Groupon’s French engineering team in 2014. The application was initially built for the French and German local markets and especially for the Food and Drink industry. …