Tag: Megabus

• 06 May 2026

  What's a Circuit Breaker?

  I'd not been interviewed very often. For my first job, sure, I sent around my CV to a bunch of places and did a bunch o...
• 14 Apr 2026

  I Chose to Keep Going

  In 2008, we all watched Pivotal crash and burn. They'd taken a year and nearly £900k to build a new ticketing system fo...
• 14 Apr 2026

  Always On

  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 ph...
• 14 Apr 2026

  Did They Have a Problem That Year?

  2008 was a heck of a year for kraya, and for me. We were already operating megabus.com in the UK, USA, and Canada, alon...
• 13 Apr 2026

  What we Carried

  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 lit...
• 13 Apr 2026

  Whatcha Thinking?

  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 ...
• 10 Mar 2009

  Database Systems Compared

  My first experiences of a computer started with [DBase III+](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase "Dbase on Wikipedia")wh...
• 04 Mar 2009

  Making Twitter Faster

  From my perspective, Twitter has a really really interesting technical problem to solve. How to store and retrieve a la...