The Cloudway Timeline
In the past years, we had the opportunity to work on many challenging applications for our customers which range from start-ups to enterprise companies.
This timeline shows the highlights of our our work and provides insights in the vast knowledge Cloudway has in many domains like Healthcare, Smart Integrations and Internet of Things and how we used our knowledge to resolve challenges that our customers faced and improve their business in general.
AI-Powered Application Modernisation
Our customer, a large pharmaceutical company, had a lot of Microsoft Power Apps that were built in the past by citizen developers. Often the detailed knowledge of these apps was not available anymore. However, to improve security for these applications, it was important to rebuild them used technology supported by the internal IT Teams. To make this possible, we used AI te reverse engineer the functionality of one Power App and recreate the functionality in the supported technology. Although the Application was created over the past decade, we were able to analyse and recreate the application within a couple of weeks within a highly regulated environment. Moreover, with this first modernisation, we laid the foundation to modernise many more Power Apps in the future.
Real-time auction platform for LAVA
LAVA coordinates the Belgian fruit and vegetable auctions of cooperatives such as BelOrta, REO and Coöperatie Hoogstraten. Together with several Xplore Group teams, we developed a new digital platform that allows professional buyers to follow auction clocks, pricing, availability and purchases in real time—both online and from the auction rooms.
We built the scalable, cloud-native backend on AWS. It processes bids, synchronizes users and auction data, supports live audio communication and maintains reliable performance during peak auction periods, creating a future-ready platform for a sector where every millisecond counts.
Modernisation of a large codebase
After more than a decade, our Serverless middleware we build for Philips is still used at Signify. This codebase which now contains more than 6500 Java files and 300 Maven modules was built around the available Java version and AWS SDK version available in 2015. They were deeply embedded in the codebase structure. Using AI-Assisted modernisation, we were able to modernise this codebase in a short amount of time to ensure this essential middleware would remain available, secure and scalable for decades to come.
AI Mailbox Assistant for BelOrta
BelOrta’s fruit, vegetable and organic teams receive hundreds of emails every day, many of which arrive in the wrong mailbox. We developed an AI Mailbox Assistant that integrates into their existing Outlook environment and analyses both emails and attachments.
The assistant identifies the correct team and automatically sorts orders, questions and complaints into the appropriate folders. This reduces manual work, gives employees a clear daily overview and improves operational efficiency without changing how they work.
A Store Assistant to support store employees
For a big Do-It-Yourself company, we created a Store Assistant on top of thousands of their store briefings. With more than 20 store briefings per week around promotions, product displays, product recalls and operational guidance, store employees were unable to keep up with the information overload. Our store assistant ensures that the store employee can communicate which the information in these briefings, gathering the right information at the right time without waisting time.
Smart Yard solution for Container Terminals
For a large logistical company, we implemented a Smart Yard solution which provides container location insights for our customer on their yards. This increases safety around toxic and flammable goods and lowers operational costs by improved planning and limiting container misplacement.
This solution was created by combining real-time camera analysis on edge, secure 5G networking and cloud infrastructure to ensure scalability, security and performance.
Streaming service for comic books
Together with partners Unlock’d and Sixth Generation we developed a Comic Book streaming service for Strips.be and Standaard Uitgeverij. The application offers you a Netflix-style service to read comic books online for a monthly or yearly fee. Already more than 2,000 comic albums have been digitized and more will follow.
Multi-tenant e-invoicing platform (Routty Express)
Routty had already for many years their Routty AR/AP application which is a single-tenant application which routes incoming and outgoing invoices from and to many different e-invoicing and ERP system or networks like Peppol and SAP.
Improved lead generators
The previous lead generators of this Insurance Company were built using a different technology stack than the company uses today. These lead generators were also not fully integrated with their current systems.
We created new lead generators using an up to date front end stack and the new design system. On the backend side, we created a Backend-For-Frontend on top of the existing core systems.
A platform that facilitates playing hardware arcade games through your browser
Elaut wanted to build an online gaming platform for arcade halls. This platform allows the customers of these arcade halls to also play on physical arcade machine through a website by providing a real-time video stream of the machine and allowing the users to control the movements of the machine.
A platform for Bru Textiles that enables improved 3D design previews
A cloud based platform aiming to bring high quality renders of interior furnishings & scenes with 3D digital fabrics that match the physical offerings
Improving time to market and User Experience for Cyclis
This innovative and very successful bicycle leasing scale-up was working with an all-encompassing ERP/CRM package. In addition to basic ERP and CRM functionalities, this system was also used as a platform for the company website and various customer portals.
This approach resulted in a number of undesirable limitations, especially in terms of end-user experience.
Multiple platforms for J&J for doctors, patients, medicins and contracts
We made multiple platforms for JnJ for different medical and administrative purposes. Amongst it was our first Lambda@Edge implementation at a worldwide scale.
Enabling voice commands for Daikin air conditioning systems
Daikin already had a mobile application through which their customers could control the configuration of their air conditioning systems. However, Daikin wanted to also enable voice-controlled configuration of their systems to further improve the experience for their users.
AWS Lambda service delivery partner / Serverless partner
Based on our experience with we initiated the procedure to become an AWS Lambda service delivery partner. Our previous cases and practices proved that recognition was warranted.
Cronos Cloud Conference
Based on our low level experience with the serverless technology on AWS, we decided to share our insights and learning around the technology including the business value it can bring for both start and scale-ups and enterprises.
This talk also included our experience in FinOps.
A HIPAA compliant platform for Epilog to analyse brain scans
Epilog wanted to build a platform which allows medical practitioners to upload the raw data acquired from an EEG scan, then receive a 3D patient-specific source localization, use a concise online report and 3D-viewer gained with automated spike detection. This analysis results in valuable insights in the preoperative evaluation for refractory epilepsy.
Barco Demetra, a HIPAA compliant platform for Barco to support their new Dermoscopy device
Barco had been working on a new digital advanced solution to help dermatologists to improve their diagnosis on skin diseases.
By providing a new solution called Demetra that creates high-quality images and storing these images securely on the cloud, a dermatologist can get an overview on the progress of the disease over multiple months or years.
A Telematics Insurance platform for Pioneer to capture and score telematics data from IoT devices
Pioneer wanted to create a Telematics Insurance platform for the EU and US market. Pioneer was manufacturing devices which would be installed in the car of the users of the platform to capture their driving behavior.
We proposed to work with high-level AWS services. To show Pioneer these AWS services like IoT Core, Lambda, DynamoDB and Step Function would be able to cover their scaling need in a cost efficient way, we created a Proof of Concept and performance tests.
Machine learning on AWS workshop
Together with Infofarm we did a machine learning on AWS workshop in which we used the recently released Amazon Sagemaker machine learning platform. People with AI/ML background and without followed our workshop and were able to implement their first use cases.
AWS-based serverless caching and queuing layer to abstract away the intermittent availability of legacy backend services.
For specific reasons, the on premises systems of this Car Manufacturer were not available outside of office hours. We have created a reverse proxy and caching layer built on top of AWS API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB. This low cost and maintenance solution ensured that customer facing application would be available all the time even when on premises systems were not available.
Application for Barco to monitor and configure their medical monitors
Barco sells high quality, medical imaging displays to hospitals. It is critical that these displays are calibrated frequently to ensure the quality of the display. Together with Barco, we created a solution which periodically will remotely check the calibration of the display and if needed a remote recalibration of the display is done. This is achieved through communication between the AWS cloud (IoT Core) and the computer connected to the display.
Design and implementation of a Serverless middleware for Philips
Philips has a product information management system in which all their product information is stored and maintained. The PIM system contains both marketing and technical information about the products they sell. This information needs to be shared with many different channels on which product information is shown like the Philips website, Amazon.com, leaflet rendering, …
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Creation of the AWS Lambda Jenkins plugin
Back in 2015, not a lot of developer tools supported AWS Lambda. For this reason we have created the AWS Lambda Jenkins plugin to ensure we were able to create CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for Lambda deployments. Although we ourselves have moved to a more IaC - first deployment strategy using AWS SAM, this plugin is still mentioned on the dashboard page of AWS Lambda in the AWS Console under developer resources.
First Lambda function in production
Although AWS Lambda was still in preview, we already used the service for a small process in one of our projects.
This small background process would generate waveforms based on audio files.