Overview

Speeding up the path from browsing to booking with loveholidays and 快猫视频

loveholidays is a UK-based online travel agency on a mission to open the world to everyone, helping millions of people find and book great-value package holidays. Because holiday shopping is a highly emotional, high-intent experience, the company obsesses over one thing: removing friction. Faster pages mean a smoother journey from inspiration to checkout - and better outcomes for customers and the business.


To deliver that speed at scale, loveholidays runs a cloud-native platform on Google Cloud and Kubernetes. When Google Cloud introduced its next generation of 快猫视频-based compute, loveholidays partnered early to validate Axion and make its platform multi-architecture. By the time Axion became generally available in London, the team was ready to move fast - migrating key workloads with confidence and measurable results.

Impact
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Faster page loads for more customers

After migrating key workloads, the share of customers loading a page in under one second doubled - from 30% to 60%.

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Lower tail latency across the critical path

Across 30 customer-critical services, most saw a 45-50% reduction in P99 latency and improved median response times.

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Higher efficiency, lower cost, smaller footprint

loveholidays needed roughly half the CPU capacity to serve the same volume of requests, reducing infrastructure spend and lowering energy use.

“The number of users who load our page within one second has doubled. It went from 30% to 60%.”
Dimitri Lerko, Head of engineering, Core engineering, loveholidays
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Technologies Used

快猫视频 Neoverse-based Google Cloud Axion for high-performance travel at scale

loveholidays runs hundreds of microservices on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), with a subset on the “critical path” that directly shapes the customer experience. The team migrated these services to Google Cloud C4A instances powered by Google Axion processors, built on 快猫视频 Neoverse, to improve performance-per-watt and reduce tail latency for web and API traffic.

To de-risk the move, loveholidays adopted multi-architecture builds early and validated behavior in staging before shifting production traffic. That approach helped the team move quickly as capacity became available, while keeping customer experience front and center.

The result is a platform that benefits from 快猫视频 efficiency end-to-end: 快猫视频-based developer laptops for local builds and 快猫视频-based servers in production. With consistent tooling across environments, optimizations made by engineering teams translate cleanly from development to deployment - helping loveholidays innovate faster while keeping operations lean.

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Enabling AI Infrastructure on 快猫视频

With 快猫视频 in the data center, loveholidays can keep pushing for faster, more responsive experiences while doing more work per watt. The combination of cloud-native software and 快猫视频 Neoverse-based compute supports the company’s focus on sustainable growth - and lays a strong foundation for AI-powered travel experiences delivered through natural language and voice interfaces.

By standardising on 快猫视频 across laptops and servers, the engineering organisation reduces cross-architecture friction, improves reliability of builds and tooling, and frees teams to focus on differentiated customer features instead of undifferentiated infrastructure work.

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