We Create Software to Scale.

We have extensive experience using industry standard technologies and frameworks alongside tried and tested in-house code.

We design and develop web applications in close partnership with our clients, contributing ideas and experience to help build great products.

Our web applications are designed responsive as standard, so good we doubt you’ll need an app.

Examples of our work include:

• Project management and issue tracking software we developed in-house and use to manage all our projects. In fact, you should give Tickd a go! It's very good (even if we do say so ourselves).
• One to one tutoring platform with everything including administration of users and tutors, through searching tutors and lesson booking management, to the virtual classroom with video, chat, webcam capture, file sharing, collaborative text and whiteboard.
• Interactive Facebook / LinkedIn style news feed with custom, automated and user generated content (all driven by a REST API and automated, event driven content generator we built specifically for the job)
• Planning calendar for teachers capable of auto-populating days and weeks worth of curriculum based learning content in one go.
• Content management systems to create bespoke web content, including stand-alone articles which can be combined into larger sites.
• IoT dashboard and monitoring platform for trash compactors, including interactive maps, in-field device management, fullness level indicators and comprehensive alerting and reports.
• Content management driven static site generator to search and pull together advertising campaign pages with static and dynamic content from blogs/news articles, twitter feeds and youtube channels.

Since the company started, we have been taking advantage of the cloud for our clients, saving on costs, building for scale, and creating more robust/fault tolerant platforms than was possible before without heavy investment.

Examples of our work include:

• A framework designed to transcode videos on demand at a very efficient cost (cheaper than AWS’s own video transcoding service)
• Server farms that automatically adjust to the appropriate size for the variance in traffic providing cost efficiency
• Migration of existing platform deployed on owned co-located hardware to a cloud environment with zero downtime

Difficulty in scaling a business, more often than not, comes down to a choked single, all inclusive database instance within the company. CodeArcs can break through that wall and take you to the next level in Database Architecture.

We work with existing databases to improve efficiency and speed, improving data structure, remodelling, slaving and employing cloud technologies to spread your data wings. For new products, these methods are employed from day one to allow you to grow and scale long after we’ve completed our part.

We’re also familiar with non-relational databases so will make the right technology choice for your data.

Examples include:

• Re-architected a complex database that froze during high reporting periods causing multiple online systems to slow and crash. Solving the problem allowed usual services to carry on unencumbered while allowing those with deadlines to get their reports in on time.
• Migrated a commercial database system to an open source alternative for the purposes of saving on subscription costs.
• Added complex searching ability to our Project Management product Tickd using ElasticSearch.
• A highly scalable data matching service built using Cassandra to handle the yearly growth in data volume.
• Custom caching solutions to optimise web application performance based on both Memcached and Redis.

One of our key strengths is our expertise and experience with scale. It’s important that the software critical to your business doesn’t fall over just because your business has doubled its customer base. At the same time, you don’t necessarily want to spend half your development budget focused on building scalability into your platform that you will never reach. We aim to get the balance right and make choices that will ensure you are not architected into a corner on scale. We take full advantage of today’s cloud services coupled with tried and tested scalable development paradigms to achieve that.

Examples of our work include:

• Built and maintained an RSS feed platform that served traffic to the readers of many premium publishers across the world (including the New York Times and Le Monde). It was traffic that amounted to billions of requests per month.
• Replaced an aging bespoke email marketing platform that had struggled to keep up with the growth in email volume. Sending over 1 billion marketing emails a year, the previous platform was particularly pushed on peak days, which required the business to work from the early hours of the morning through to the late hours of the day. The replacement brought an end to that, giving them the ability to comfortably continue growth well into the future.

Our software due diligence highlights any technical risks by analysing code, architecture, technology and quality to enable you to make an informed business decision. From addressing the maintainability of the code to identifying the risks and strengths in scaling the software, we address all the key questions that you have and more.

Often software can benefit from integration with other systems that exist either in your own company or with third parties. We’ve worked on a variety of projects that include both realtime and periodic integrations.

Examples include:

• Slack Integration into our Tickd Project Management System provides a convenient way to interact with Tickd without leaving Slack.
• SalesForce custom integrations for customers to synchronize their key data stores across a number of internal software systems.
• Integrated with Stripe for a number of projects which required a payment solution. This includes our own project management solution, Tickd.
• Harnessed Twilio to build a rich browser-based teaching environment that incorporates live video between the 2 parties involved.

Over the years we have developed and maintained a wide variety of systems that rely on a message driven architecture at its core.

With this approach we have delivered small to large scale messaging platforms that are decoupled from each other and capable of both synchronous and asynchronous processing.

Our experience with a variety of messaging paradigms and technologies will ensure the messaging platform we deliver meets your needs both today and in the future.

Examples of our work include:

• Built and maintained a multi-tier PDF and document processing system that accepted both real-time and scheduled jobs to create, transform, and package various documents to be delivered to clients.
• Developed a video transcoding service that is capable of transcoding multiple web conference rooms in parallel that is ultimately cheaper than similar cloud services such as AWS Transcoder.
• Implemented a custom framework for easily creating and deploying simple lightweight job processors that are decoupled from the underlying messaging technology.
• Performance tuned and optimized existing messaging systems so that they could achieve upwards of twice the previous processing rate.

Since the early days of SOAP and XML-RPC endpoints, we have created and consumed web services for our clients. A network-based API is often the backbone to which your mobile and web applications are built.

Examples of our work include:

• Developed secure, scalable REST APIs for several of our clients that encapsulated the business rules and provided a consistent interface to the data for the mobile app, main web applications and customer accessible REST endpoints.
• Leveraged serverless computing services to create low cost solutions for low volume endpoints such as handling contact form processing for a static site.

We at CodeArcs have gleaned a raft of experience in a number of languages over the years. As a result of this we have, with confidence, helped companies understand, support and maintain their existing in-house software.

Internal key staff members often leave a company with little left in the way of documentation or knowledge transfer.

Often the projects we are brought in to work on involve replacing an existing platform. As a result we often need to drill down and reverse engineer black-box software to aid in understanding, redevelopment and enhancements.