Evolving Trainline Architecture for Scale, Reliability and Productivity

Trainline has been enabling customers to buy train tickets online for over 15 years. During that time a lot has changed - the volume of transactions, the reliability and latency expectations for ticket fulfillment, the number of engineers working on Trainline systems, the breadth of travel use-cases the app supports etc. This talk will cover how Trainline's systems architecture has evolved over the past 5 years to cater to these changes, as well as what's coming next.


Speaker

Milena Nikolic

CTO @Trainline, Previously Engineering Director @Google

Milena is a CTO at Trainline, where she runs a team of 400+ technologists focused on enabling greener travel choices, connecting people and places. Before that she has spent more than a decade at Google, working as an engineer and an engineering leader across a number of different product areas - most recently as an Engineering Director for Google Play Developer Ecosystem. Milena has a passion for building empowered and efficient tech organizations, robust and innovative technology and delightful customer experiences.

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Date

Wednesday Apr 10 / 01:35PM BST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Fleming (3rd Fl.)

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