Trainline's developers will continue to mix blue skies and clouds in 2018, says CTO Holt

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Typically only 10 per cent of dev time at Trainline is spent on “keeping the lights on”
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Typically only 10 per cent of dev time at Trainline is spent on “keeping the lights on”

The company's culture of fostering innovation is responsible for its recent voice app

Mark Holt, CTO of rail ticket vendor Trainline, happily acknowledges that the industry is changing. Paper's days are numbered; just as aviation has done, rail is shifting to embrace e-tickets and o...

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