In depth: Doing our bit for the (development) environment with Docker

As the team behind Passenger grows, so have our approaches and processes in software engineering. Read More

Making Passenger: How we’ve recently upgraded our development environments

Passenger’s numerous development environments were previously built using Vagrant. This article shares how we’ve recently made our development environments more portable, scalable and secure by moving them to Docker. Read More

Coding tips & tricks - National Coding Week

Originally posted on our ‘Base’ Medium account. In September 2019, Base became Passenger. It’s National Coding Week! To acknowledge this celebration of all… Read More

In depth: From Java to Kotlin - the joys of new code

Originally posted on our ‘Base’ Medium account. In September 2019, Base became Passenger. At Base, we prefer not to stand still. We’re constantly… Read More

Improving Passenger: Introducing Kotlin for Android

At Passenger, we constantly appraise new technologies to make sure we keep pace with the best solutions and create as effective a product as possible. This purview includes new software languages like Kotlin. Here, we explain what Kotlin is, why we’ve invested in it, and what it means for the Passenger experience on Android devices (hint: it’ll be even better). Read More

5 things we’ve learned (so far) by doubling our engineering team

Originally posted on our ‘Base’ Medium account. In September 2019, Base became Passenger. In the (almost) 10 years I’ve been at Base, the… Read More

All the databases

Originally posted on our ‘Base’ Medium account. In September 2019, Base became Passenger. The database landscape was largely unchanging years ago. There was… Read More

Open Data by default

At Passenger we use Open Data to power up our apps with information. Free access to data allows us to scale up as app user numbers increase, without a corresponding increase in data costs. Nonetheless, free-of-cost is not the only benefit of open data. Read More

Re:develop is taking a year off

Originally posted on our ‘Base’ Medium account. In September 2019, Base became Passenger. We’ve run re:develop for three years now, and every… Read More

A sea of ones and zeroes

Originally posted on our ‘Base’ Medium account. In September 2019, Base became Passenger. At Base we build apps that help people, every day. Read More