Hello from the new Cityflo

In the coming week, when we come to pick you up, we are going to look a little different. Since day one, our main focus has been on consistently improving your commute experience. While that continues to be our first priority, we are now refining our visual identity—one that…

Smartphones, mattresses and Cityflo

" (The iPhone is) enormously underpriced. ” …said Warren Buffet in a 2018 interview. Now before you share your thoughts, hear us out. We believe we're onto something here. When we first read that quote, it was (honestly) a little surprising. We’ve always viewed the iPhone as an…

#FromACityflo - The city through your eyes

On average, Cityflo customers spend about 2 hours on our buses every day. While this time is usually spent napping, reading, or watching a show, we’d like you to take advantage of our large windows, look out and capture moments from the city that may sometimes go unnoticed on…

How we maintain our staging environment with rich data

Learn more about how we use automation to prepare our staging environment and improve the confidence of our engineers in the products they build. Before diving deep into the orchestration, it is important to understand why the right data is important for us in the staging environment. Our test cases…

We hired a Quality Control Manager from Qatar Airways

Qatar Airways is one of the leading airlines in the world, and has won multiple “Airline of the Year” awards. What sets them apart is their attention to detail and phenomenal customer experience, especially in the business class segment. We recruited Sandesh Sakat so he could help take our cleanliness…

We turned our bus rooftops into canvases

We’ve always kept the graphics on the Cityflo bus exteriors minimal so the bus looks sleek. But recently, we decided to have some fun with it. We turned our bus rooftops into canvases. And showcased some art on a few of them. Meet the Artist These three pieces were…

How Cityflo leverages Containers in the Cloud

At Cityflo, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for all of our tech infrastructure requirements.  We majorly use services such as EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda,  S3, Cloudwatch, and ECS. Before diving deep into the infrastructure, let's talk a little bit about the traffic pattern at Cityflo. Our services…

Why does traffic sometimes form for no reason?

Have you also noticed traffic jams with no apparent cause? No accident, no stalled vehicles, no lanes closed for construction. You inch along for tens — sometimes hundreds — of metres while waiting to see the accident which might have caused the jam. And suddenly, the traffic disappears and all vehicles speed…