At thetrainline.com we use Opscode Chef for managing our build infrastructure. Like many other tools running on Windows, the chef-client ohai framework relies on WMI for extracting…

In common with other big systems, thetrainline’s systems use a variety of technologies under the hood. Most of our code is written for the .NET framework, although there are bits of other technology stacks in there as well.

I recently attended a training session run by Dan North (@tastapod) called Accelerated Agile. This blog post summarises what we learnt: Dan argued that some organisations/teams using Agile practices have lost sight of actual achievement and are…

This article is from January 2013. Please see https://engineering.thetrainline.com/migrating-from-oracle-exadata-to-aws-b7c7bea3da9d for our migration to 100% cloud.

Here at thetrainline.com we have several useful online tools for helping our customers plan and manage their train travel, including Train Times and Live Departure Boards. We recently changed the way we build, test, and deploy…

A commonly overlooked area of many systems are the non-functional requirements and the design to meet those requirements. Patterns for Performance and Operability by Ford, Gileadi, Purba and Moerman provides everyone involved in the…

This is a report back from Cloud Expo Europe 2013 where keynote talks from IBM, eBay, EasyJet to Morgan Stanley gave a view of how far the cloud has been adopted. In short, the cloud has ‘landed’; it is no longer hype or on…