Building an Analytics Dashboard and Admin Console for an Airline Pricing Platform
DBB Software has owned the customer-facing analytics dashboard and the internal admin console for Longtail's autonomous airline-pricing platform since September 2023. A full-stack engineer and project manager work as an embedded part of the product team, covering frontend, backend, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD.
Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Service
AWS services
Team
1 Full-Stack Developer, 1 Project Manager
Project State
September 2023 — June 2024
Country
United States
About the Client
Longtail is an autonomous pricing platform built for the airline industry. The platform uses intelligent algorithms to increase carriers' revenue by widening their network footprint, making more journeys available at the right price for every customer search across web and travel-agency channels.
The Challenge
Longtail engaged DBB Software to build and own the customer-facing analytics surface and the internal admin tooling that sit on top of their autonomous airline-pricing platform, and to operate the cloud infrastructure both run on.
Customer-Facing Analytics Dashboard
A web surface where airline revenue teams can review pricing performance, see optimization suggestions, and exchange analytical data with the platform.
01
Admin Console for Customer Management
A dedicated internal tool for Longtail's team to onboard airline customers, manage their users, and configure account-level settings.
02
Cloud Infrastructure and Delivery Pipeline
A reliable AWS footprint and a CI/CD setup that lets a small team ship product changes continuously without manual deployment overhead.
03
Solutions We Delivered
DBB Software embedded a full-stack engineer and a project manager into Longtail's team in September 2023 and has owned the analytics dashboard, admin console, and AWS infrastructure work since. The scope spans backend, frontend, infrastructure, and UI design in Figma.
Analytics Dashboard for Airline Revenue Teams
Built the customer-facing web dashboard that Longtail's airline customers use to review pricing charts, see optimization suggestions, and exchange analytical data. The frontend runs on React with MUI and Redux Toolkit Query; the backend is a NestJS service backed by PostgreSQL on AWS RDS, with Auth0 handling identity.
Admin Console for Customer and User Management
Designed and built a dedicated admin board for Longtail's internal team to manage airline customers and their users, including access provisioning and account-level configuration. The admin board shares the NestJS backend with the customer-facing dashboard and runs on the same authentication layer.
AWS Infrastructure with Terraform-Managed Provisioning
Built and operated Longtail's AWS footprint with Terraform, covering S3, CloudFront, RDS, and serverless Lambdas. CI/CD pipelines deploy changes from main to production on every merge, removing manual deployment steps from the team's day-to-day.
Results Achieved
Self-Serve Analytics for Airline Customers
Airline revenue teams can now independently review pricing performance, see optimization suggestions, and work with analytical data directly in the dashboard.
Continuous Delivery
Changes are deployed automatically through CI/CD on every merge to main. This allows the team to ship improvements regularly without manual release cycles.
Simplified Customer Onboarding and Management
The internal team can onboard new airline customers, manage users, and configure accounts through the dedicated admin console.
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