The Optibus Blog

Thoughts about scheduling, planning, mass transit, technology, algorithms and more.

Eitan Yanovsky

Co-Founder & CTO

Recent Posts

Build Fast, Roll Out Carefully

As an innovative SaaS tech company, we want to continuously build and improve our platform at a rapid pace, enabling...

Don’t Take Cover, Reduce the “Blast Radius” Instead

At some point, things will go wrong in production. It’s inevitable, and you should plan for it to assure that, when it...

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Building an MVP for a Nuclear Plant

Today, most SaaS platforms are built using agile methods — by releasing new features in short iterations and following...

To Open Source or Not To Open Source? That Is the Question

At some point in their engineering career, nearly everyone builds an internal tool and thinks that it would make a good...

Optibus CTO Eitan Yanovsky on How to Make Smart Decisions When So Much Is Unknown

This subject came to me while having a fun night with the team. We participated in a guided painting session, where we...

Handling Burst Scale-Out With ‘Function as a Service’

At Optibus, we’ve created a cloud-based platform that solves the very challenging problem of planning and scheduling...

Continuous Deployment in Mission-Critical Enterprise SaaS Software

Continuous deployment in mission-critical enterprise SaaS software sounds scary, right? How do you make sure (as much...

How We Use FaaS To Optimize Mass Transit: Running Distributed Algorithms At “Infinite” Scale

Optibus creates a continuous plan for mass transit: city-wide planning and scheduling – determining where every vehicle...