The year 2021 was marked by the arrival of the covid 19 vaccine. A hope for many, announcing the end of this pandemic that will have marked the beginning of our century. Haha. Well, actually, no. Indeed, on the eve of the year 2022, we discover the fascinating capacity of the variant named Omicron to spread. Vaccination campaigns then resume, to inoculate the so-called "booster" doses to stem this new wave of contamination.

Hey, we'd like to help

At Clever Cloud we are trying to act - in our own way - in the face of the situation. As was the case previously with Makair (the respirator co-designed by our CEO Quentin Adam), for example. And, at the beginning of the school year 2021, we came across the Covidtracker teams almost by chance. They were in the middle of working on Vite Ma Dose. This was an opportunity to discuss their needs. And since the beginning of the fall 2021, we have been providing instances for the algorithms of the Vite Ma Dose. To goal is to detect vaccination appointments.

With the ViteMaDose volunteer team, we are investing our time to serve a vaccination campaign that we believe is essential for our fellow citizens. Fortunately, we are not the only ones: several French public services and companies have also lent a hand to the product by contributing the know-how of their teams or access to their technology. This is the case of CleverCloud, which has generously offered to help us by hosting the core of the product: the algorithm for finding vaccination slots for covid-19.

Florent Jaby

A short story of migration

We are delighted to be able to help the Vite Ma Dose teams today. We provide the necessary resources to enable the service to function properly. As much as the frontend is quite simple, the backend, which aggregates appointments from a small number of different platforms, is a different story.

Clever Cloud offered us hosting specific to our needs and our architecture thanks to its managed Gitlab Runner offer. We were able to entrust them with all of the operational complexity of the platform, which otherwise required our constant attention, not always possible in a voluntary capacity. This also frees up our time for other matters such as the progress of the 3rd dose of vaccination or the vaccination of the youngest children, which are changing daily. In fact, the migration to the Clever Cloud runner was completed in a weekend, painlessly and perfectly as planned.

Florent Jaby

Today, the service is running like clockwork. We congratulate the Covidtracker and Vite Ma Dose teams for their efforts.

To find your 3rd shot : https://vitemadose.covidtracker.fr

Christmas is next week and you probably heard about the “Secret Santa” tradition. Loïck Piera, Web Consultant at JoliCode, developed an app called Secret Santa to help you organise yours with your colleagues, friends or family. Secret Santa has been hosted by Clever Cloud since 2018.

What is a Secret Santa?

In a word, Secret Santa is a Christmas tradition where each person of the group is randomly assigned someone to offer a gift to, and nobody knows the author of the gift they will receive until the D-day.

How does the app work?

It allows you to simplify the organization of your Secret Santa. In other words, it automates the assignment of a person to whom to offer a gift for each participant. Of course, to simplify its use, you can connect the app to Slack or Discord and now a beta version for Zoom is also available.

How to install Secret Santa?

• At first, go to their website, then choose the application to which you want to connect Secret Santa.

• Next, select the group members you would like to add to the participants. In addition, you can also set-up a personalized message to send to each participant.

• Then, you're all done, the app shuffles and assign each participant to another one and sends the message you previously set-up. Finally, all you need to do now is to buy the gift for the person you have been assigned to! 

Why did Secret Santa choose Clever Cloud?

We asked Loïck Piera, the Web Consultant at JoliCode which developed the app, what he thinks about the solution we provide. This is what he replied:

Clever Cloud : "What are the main assets that made you choose to be hosted by Clever Cloud?"

Loïck Piera : "Well, it's a solid platform which operates without having to overthink it and with no need of maintenance from our side. It's simple and fast to deploy in production, and there is no service interruption, which is crucial. Secret Santa is a Symfony application with PHP 8 and the Clever Cloud infrastructure fits our needs perfectly."

Clever Cloud : "What do you appreciate the most in our solution?"

Loïck Piera : "What we appreciate the most in this hosting solution, is the simplicity of use. We only have to indicate the webroot directory, and that's all, the version of PHP and the Composer dependencies are detected automatically! Furthermore, there is also an interesting list of addons. Clever Cloud is a platform really adapted to most web projects."

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A rapid increase in activity… without any stress

Antoine, how did you experience this atypical period for your company?

With this rapid growth, have you been worried that your infrastructure will saturate?

Clever Cloud service allowed us to be very calm despite the threefold increase of our activity.

What’s coming for Shopopop?

“We had to build something super robust because it must not crash with customers; everything is tested, very solid, this is one of the reasons why we use Clever Cloud.”

Why did you choose Clever Cloud for this project?

Separated work, better concerns

Performance and Confidence

Costs Reasons

Friendship and Innovation

More than ever, we realize that our world is late in some ways. Technology can be a real strength, a time-saver, a life facilitator, particularly in the medical sector.

Founded eight years ago, Ubilab is a software range for medical testing laboratories. This ergonomic solution groups together all the tools that laboratories will need for internal communication towards healthcare professionals.

Ubilab has two essential products: Ubilab Home and Ubilab Result. Ubilab Home is for professionals, and Ubilab Result is for patients. These products are mainly technological: software in saas, web, and mobile access, company filled with developers directly from the Scala world.

Meeting with Guillaume Badin, CTO at Ubilab

Tech has an essential place in our company; our product is technological. My job is to code, not to manage servers, that’s why the offer of Clever Cloud meets our needs. This year we will launch Ubilab results and visit, and we need to accelerate the deployment of these products in laboratories.

“As a CTO, my role is to foster interaction between developers, internal communication, and allow the team as a whole to be more efficient.”

My team is organized around poles; we have a front pole and a back pole, we organize around tasks performed, our objectives are to deploy new functionalities rapidly. The idea is that we test it every time, and it goes into production. My challenge is to develop tools to make the whole team go faster and to help developers grow daily.

How did you hear about Clever Cloud

I discovered Clever Cloud via the Scala world, at a Scala IO conference. I had the opportunity to eat next to Quentin Adam, we discussed my issues, and it made me want to test your platform.

Before we were with Rackspace, we had to manage our servers ourselves; it was time-consuming, the updates were complicated; there was no security update. The idea of ​​pushing its code and making it easy to deploy won us over.

“Being able to push and test quickly allows us to implement new features more regularly.”

Now that we are at Clever Cloud, the deployment works very well. We like the culture of Clever Cloud, which brings a lot to the community. Support helps us when we need it. Clever Cloud has changed the way we work; we are now doing pre-production which makes us gain in quality.

What changes with Clever Cloud ?

• Push into production every day
• DevOps time reduces by 95%
• 2-3 hours earned per week
• A lot of serenity

Once upon a time, two founders encountered a problem, and they solve it. Clément & Augustin wanted to invest in an apartment in Paris: a real pain trial. You need to be available 24/7, to check on every website the new property advertisement, to be the first on the deal, to be the first to sign it.

They had to find a solution and help future buyers. And then comes the idea of a chatbot in messenger. Thanks to this simple feature, first users were able to enter their criteria: budget, location, number of rooms, etc. Then they receive in real-time tailor-made suggestions. As in every good startup story, the beginning is not that simple. Behind this chatbot on messenger was hidden founders, doing everything by manually, without any automation, picking the right data via Google searches.

The end of Manually Scrapping

Then came the time to hire a real tech expert, Julien Pouillard, actual CTO at Folhomee. When Julien arrived two years ago, he had to automate the entire process. The first things were to implement a database to record every data correctly. Secondly, to develop a search system to pick data and criteria from each advertisement on properties websites. Lastly, Julien had to set up the matching between user needs and on-line ads to create a real virtual property hunter. They use machine learning to favor easy user matching, widening the selection with optional criteria. Now they can analyze vast volumes of data, and use it to extend the matching with variables.

Since Julien joined Folhomee, the company use Clever Cloud as a hosting provider. After having tested several alternatives like Heroku and AWS, Julien heard about Clever Cloud. For many years, he uses Clever Cloud for professional projects.

"For me, Clever Cloud is the simplest, fastest, and the most efficient platform for Startups."

Folhomee uses Clever Cloud to run their apps, to see metrics and logs, for their Databases with MongoDB or Redis for all the add-on part. They have several instances per app: it's interesting to see the log overlapping.

"It's easy to contact the support; I can reach them anytime, and it always went well!"

Julien is the only one who handles the infrastructure part, and recently another collaborator; Maxime Amore, student apprentice, has deployed another application and a database on it:

“For Maxime first use of the platform, I gave him access to the entire Folhomee infrastructure. He could discover logs and carry out maintenance on the applications. Then when we needed a new instance, he was in charge of creating the app and the database. This initation was swift and easy.”

Now Maxime is using Clever Cloud for personal projects and master Clever Cloud platform.

Julien, how would you pitch Clever Cloud?

Clever Cloud is the application deployment platform that allows for continuous deployment with the implementation of databases or other add-on.

Thank you, Julien, for your time and much success to Folhomee!

The idea comes from Alexis Delepoulle, one of the founders of Energic. He was the CEO of a company in energies (specialized electric meters installation), and customers were unable to pay their electricity bill. The initial objective of the app was to reduce user energy consumption to allow consumers to spend less.

He met Quentin Oustelandt, a student passionate about this subject, and they launched with Tristan Reneaume Energic. Their genesis: buildings technical efficiency must be paired with the evolution of usages to create the best environmental impact possible.

Since 2019, Energic has evolved to raise awareness among its users to all environmental concerns (energy at first, and then mobility, food, waste, digital usage, lighting, water…) with clients like Orange, Cofidis, Crédit Agricole…

A team of 11 people — 140 000 sensitized individuals — 1M objective sensibilisation for 2021

An app full of tools

To make behaviour evolution easier in companies and schools, Energic has developed a digital challenge built around the main environmental stakes. Energic core business is eco-responsibility. Thanks to a mobile app, they create a community within the company: the app allows them to exchange, set goals, monitor the progress, and their efforts.

A facilitator supports each community to give them advice, animate the use, and follow their consumption.

“All of our team at Energic have the spirit to change things. Everyone feels concerned about ecology; we are glad to work for a company whose match with our convictions.”

Meeting with Jonathan Lecointe, CTO at Energic, in the company since the beginning

Initially, at Energic for his Bachelor Internship, Jonathan was one of the two first dev in the company. He continues his way with work-linked training to finish his studies. At the same time, as the Energic tech team was growing, he became the CTO naturally thanks to his expertise on the project.

“I’m not a partisan of a steering policy. My purpose is to make sure that the dev team has all the fundamentals in place to do their jobs in good conditions and goes in the right direction.”

The willingness to protect data in France and a need to be scalable in the technology

Their first server was auto-hosted on OVH, but no one in the team was a system administrator. They met then the need to find another way to handle security and monitoring. They were looking for a solution in compliance with their ethic: Data protection is a real matter for Energic; it was not practicable to store the data in the US.

“We were looking for a local solution, and Damien Cavailles from WeLoveDevs recommended Clever Cloud to us. The first thing we liked about Clever Cloud was the possibility of horizontal and vertical scalability.”

So Jonathan, more than three years since your first use of our solution, how Clever Cloud impact Energic way of work?

The beginning was straightforward. I’m a back-end developer; I just had to create a remote, push my code to it, and it was settled. We had a few hiccups because Scala support can be complicated sometimes. However, Clever Cloud’s support is still there when we have a problem; everything is transparent. Overall, the price for the service is genuinely fair. And the support team is friendly, available, even educator.

This year, our main challenge is to ramp up our commercial level. We launched a version 2.0 last May, and as of now, our product is improved and ready. We still need to work on our architecture to be scalable. It’s essential for us to feel safe about scaling: we sometimes have a prominent peak of activity, and Clever Cloud servers can adapt. My function is not to handle security, maintenance, or monitoring. I’m peaceful to let it in Clever Cloud specialists’ hands. Clever Cloud speed of deployment is truly comfortable. For the fun fact, earlier this day, one of my front-end collaborators needed a feature back: it took me like just 30 seconds to do it!

How would you explain Clever Cloud in a few words?

Clever Cloud is a great solution to host servers easily, the configuration is remarkably fast, the support is excellent, and mostly, it’s a French company.

Thank you Jonathan for your time!

More information on Energic.io

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