Founded in March 2008 by Cyril Janin, co-founder of Keljob.com, Keldelice is a technical and social platform which allows people to discover and share about French gastronomy patrimony through products, growers and events.
Novelys is involved in technical achievement since the beginning, such as development, maintenance, processes and hosting architecture setup.
DevelopmentFirst of all, Keldelice is a high traffic website with a large amount of content. So a very special attention was paid to both SEO optimization and pages titles and images and their URLs.
The search engine is naturally an important element, so Sphinx has been choosen to provide this feature (a search by facets has been implemented). The webiste has multiple universes whoses "capacities" (tags, comments, notes, Google maps, links within and between universes) has been factored to be able to reuse them throughout the website.
Keldelice the French gastronomy online!
Features- • B2B/B2C catalog
- • Social network (comments, notes)
- • Intermediation platform
- • 250 000 single visits per month
- • 12 000 products, 700 growers
- • Ruby on Rails
- • Sphinx
- • Amazon S3, EC2, CloudFront, Elastic Load B.
- • Chef
This contributes to the underlying social network which all micro events are consolidated within a à-la-Facebook feed that users can view in their personal space.
Professional users have extended capacities enabling them to inject automatically their products into the Keldelice catalog. Several types of feed are allowed: XML/CSV Keldelice, XML/CSV Kelkoo, CSV/XML Leguide, CSV/XML Oxatis. And for users who don't have a website yet an ecommerce platform centered on gastronomy in SaaS (Software as a Service) mode has been developed: the customer subscribe a monthly plan and directly manage his online shop, without installing any software.
To easily manage the website, dashboards and connexion with external services (Highrise, Mailchimp) has been set up.
Keldelice is hosted via Amazon Cloud Computing tools: EC2 (virtualized instances), S3 and Cloudfront (static files), Elastic Load Balancing (load sharing). We set up the infrastructure and tools providing its easy and automated maintenance.
With Keldelice approval, Novelys has donated some code to the Free Software community through contributions or libraries.
To noteOverall, Novelys setup a production chain from development to production with automation processes which make the pre-production or production very fast.
Novelys is a great rails webshop !
“Nous collaborons avec eux depuis 2 ans maintenant. C'est une équipe de développeurs talenteux avec un savoir très approfondi sur RoR et les méthodes agiles.”
Cyrille Stepanyk, CTO at Keldelice