We build it, we run it!

<?php // Create your own platform $my_platform = rebbits::getInstance(); // Set company name $my_platform->setCompanyName('YourCompany GmbH'); // Add Corporate Identity $my_platform->setCI('your-cool-logo.svg', 'choose-a-theme', $some_pictures); // Set your own domain if desired $my_platform->setDomain('yourcooldomain.com'); // Add Partners to your network foreach ($your_partners as $partner) { $my_platform->createPartner($partner); } // Deploy to cluster if( $my_platform->deploy() ) { // Update customer status customer::getInstance()->setHappiness(true); } ?>

Planning

Every great application must have a solid foundation on which it can be built. Only by setting a clear list of requirements, enumerating all available resources, predicting possible issues and how to solve them and defining clear milestones and deadlines is possible to optimize the time of delivery of the final product.

After a brainstorming session, we will work hand in hand with our customers defining objectives and setting the blueprints for their platform.

Implementation

Any plan needs careful, methodical execution for it to be succesfully completed.

Every member of the team needs to be aware of the objectives of the project, about what their colleagues are working on, about possible road blocks and its proposed solutions. We use the agile method for project management using tools such as Slack and Gitlab.
Effective communication among on-site and remote members of each team is paramount for any successful implementation.

Delivery

There is no better feeling than launching a completed project on time! But that's not the end. We support our customers after the launch by operating the platform and implementing new features on demand. Our agile DevOps culture allows for very quick iterations and a short time to market. Deployments with the push of a button, demo systems to attract customers, you name it, we deliver.

Our latest work

Overview

mein Golfclub is the largest german golf club association and is a combination of currently 15 high quality golf courses all over the country. Playability on a total of 306 golf courses near the cities of Hamburg, Kiel, Berlin, Neubrandenburg, Bremen, Herford, Minden, Oberhausen, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Paderborn, Dortmund and Heilbronn are just a click away for the members of all participant clubs.

The Challenge

The idea of developing the backend of a central system for managing members from different clubs was really appealing, since we needed to define and implement a new standard for mutual communications between the clubs. We would also need to consolidate and process data to comply with such definitions whilst keeping sensible information private when a user verifies if a person was allowed to use their facilities.

Having thousand of members meant, that we needed an optimal and user-friendly way to add the data into our system, as typing in every single member using the internal mask before launching the site was out of the question. This meant, we needed a data importer.

European law demands that every system must anonymize all personal information for development and tests, so this added a new layer of difficulty to our project since we would have to use an anonymizer for cloaking such data from the developers.

The system needed to be online at lease 99,99% of the time and be lightning fast, this meant that we would need to use cloud technology with everything this means in the background (scability, server balancing, containerization, cluster management, VMs for developers, etc.), naturally, before going online, bugs and points of failure would need to be solved.

mein Golfclub trusted us to build their online platform aiming on going live by middle January 2019, we received their assignment arount the end of November 2018.

Considering the scope of the project, our mutual demand for high standards on product delivery and the thight deadline, we would have had a nearly impossible deadline ahead of us. This, while still having to cope with our running projects. Needless to say, there was only one possible answer: Let's do this and have some fun!

mein Golfclub went live, on schedule, the 14.01.2019. Challenge completed!

Technologies Used

Kubernetes
Docker
Nginx
MySQL
PHP 7
Javascript
Git
HTML5

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