Holding the Fort
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For many years, I loved my job. I was working on a production system that saw tens of thousands of orders across the …
from shri at drone-ah.com
For many years, I loved my job. I was working on a production system that saw tens of thousands of orders across the …
In 2008, we all watched Pivotal crash and burn. They’d taken a year and nearly £900k to build a new ticketing …
I knew as soon as my phone rang what it was about.
It was the same every time. I would drag myself up to answer the …
2008 was a heck of a year for kraya, and for me. We were already operating megabus.com in the UK, USA, and Canada, along …
I started my company in 2000. I was 17. I built megabus.com in 2003. I was 21.
It started off small, and little by …
I loved working on megabus. I was in love with it. My girlfriend at the time had a habit of asking what I was thinking …
Two ticketing systems. Same client. Same payment provider. We were moving fast — that was the explicit choice, theirs …
A few years ago, I was interviewed for a role. I was talking about a ticketing system I’d built - originally in …
In 1999, I was building websites in ASP (before there was .NET) and MSSQL Server. We had a Windows NT server that I had …
A dedicated input type is better than reusing your domain model at the API boundary. Test layers matter. Writing log …