The Pompeii Museum Develops a Mobile App on Kubernetes in Six Weeks
Downloaded by 20,000+ tourists, the mobile app helped the park to reopen by providing a real-time map that helps to follow social distancing protocols.
Safely reopening amid the pandemic
The Archeological Park of Pompeii in Italy is one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations averaging over 2.5 million tourists annually. In 2019, the park welcomed over 3.8 million tourists. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the government-mandated lockdowns began, Pompeii, like many other tourist attractions in the world, closed its doors for safety reasons.
To reopen as lockdown restrictions began to ease in mid 2020, the Archeological Park of Pompeii developed a cloud-native, mobile app on top of Kubernetes, enabling tourists to abide by social distancing protocols via a real-time map. Created in just 6 weeks, the app has been already downloaded by 20,000+ users.
