Customer: Droemer Knaur
Project: Relaunch and further development of the self-publishing portal neobooks
- Complete relaunch of one of Germany’s most popular self-publishing portals
- Implementation and customization of the Content Management System Magnolia
- Cleansing, consolidation and migration of the legacy system’s content (45,000 user / 40,000 ebooks)
- Conception and implementation of a responsive mobile-first User Interface
- Implementation of a microservice architecture for optimal scalability as well as lightweighted and automated deployments
- Operational responsibility and 24/7 support of the website and the backoffice application
- Continuous further development of the portal with features such as print-on-demand
- Conception and development of an author app with current, detailled sales statistics (for iOS and Android)
- Applied software technologies: Magnolia CMS, MySQL, Apache Tomcat, Varnish Cache, Elasticsearch, Scala, Java, Play 2, Freemarker, Sass, React, jQuery, Grunt, Bower, Swift, Android
- Applied platform technologies: VMware vSphere, Linux, Chef, Zabbix, Ansible, Vagrant
Success
- Intuitive upload workflow for the self-publisher’s texts
- Attractive personal space for every user for administrating profile data, ebooks, reviews, billing, and more
- Mobile availability of latest sales statistics
- Strengthening of the neobooks community through features such as forum, blog and messaging
- Facilitation of the internal administration and billing process
- Optimization of the ebook distribution to the web shops
- Multi-client capable system that is also used by further licensees (e.g. tolino)
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