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Cookmygrub – Transforming Homemade Food Delivery Across the UK

Enhanced Cookmygrub's UK-based food-tech platform for scalable growth, achieving 10x user capacity, 200+ chef onboarding capability, and seamless ordering experience through React/TypeScript frontend and Node.js backend with AI/ML personalization.

Project Overview

Enhanced Cookmygrub's UK-based food-tech platform for scalable growth, achieving 10x user capacity, 200+ chef onboarding capability, and seamless ordering experience through React/TypeScript frontend and Node.js backend with AI/ML personalization.

Technologies Used

ReactTypeScriptCSSLESSGulpNode.jsExpressMySQLAWS DynamoDBDockerKubernetesGitGitHubMochaESLintDatadog

Key Results Achieved

The project delivered exceptional results across multiple metrics, demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach and the value delivered to the client.

10x
Scalable Growth
Infrastructure capable of supporting projected user growth and onboarding of 200+ new chefs
Enhanced
Performance Improvement
Faster load times and high uptime reliability, even during traffic spikes
Seamless
User Experience
Responsive interface that strengthened customer trust and retention
Automated
Operational Efficiency
CI/CD reduced deployment times and enabled continuous feature delivery
Strengthened
Community Impact
Empowered home chefs and delivered healthier food choices across the UK
250%
Growth Rate
Supported rapid customer base growth in 2021 with scalable infrastructure

Challenges Faced

Every successful project comes with its unique set of challenges. Here are the key obstacles we identified and overcame during this project.

1.Rapid Growth & Scalability: With 250% growth in 2021, existing infrastructure needed to scale for high volume of orders, menu browsing, and chef onboarding without performance compromise
2.User Experience Consistency: Platform needed intuitive, smooth, and reliable ordering flow from browsing meals to checkout to compete with established food delivery apps
3.Operational Efficiency: Manual workflows for deployments and monitoring created delays, requiring robust DevOps pipeline with CI/CD and automated monitoring for faster releases
4.Performance Monitoring: As customer engagement grew, performance bottlenecks needed proactive identification and resolution to ensure high availability and seamless experiences

Solutions Implemented

Our team developed innovative solutions to address each challenge, ensuring the project's success and exceeding client expectations.

1.Enhanced Web Application Experience: Redesigned and optimized web interface with React + TypeScript ensuring intuitive navigation and faster load times, streamlined ordering flow for one-click experience, and ensured full responsiveness across devices
2.Scalable Backend Infrastructure: Implemented Node.js + Express backend optimized for high-performance API responses, integrated MySQL and AWS DynamoDB for structured and scalable data storage, and introduced AI/ML-driven personalization for recommended meals
3.Cloud & DevOps Automation: Built CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub, Kubernetes, and AWS for zero-downtime deployments, automated infrastructure monitoring with Datadog for real-time performance tracking, and leveraged Docker + Kubernetes clusters for scalability
4.Quality Assurance & Testing: Enforced strict coding standards using ESLint, developed automated test suites with Mocha reducing regressions and increasing release confidence, and implemented comprehensive testing for reliable platform performance

Project Impact & Success Metrics

The project's success is measured not just by technical achievements, but by the real-world impact it created for our client and their users.

Key Achievements:

  • 10x - Infrastructure capable of supporting projected user growth and onboarding of 200+ new chefs
  • Enhanced - Faster load times and high uptime reliability, even during traffic spikes
  • Seamless - Responsive interface that strengthened customer trust and retention
  • Automated - CI/CD reduced deployment times and enabled continuous feature delivery

Conclusion

By partnering with Legresca, Cookmygrub successfully transformed its platform into a scalable, reliable, and user-centric web solution. The improvements not only positioned Cookmygrub to handle rapid growth but also enhanced its role in building happier, healthier communities through homemade food delivery. Legresca's expertise in cloud, full-stack engineering, and DevOps automation enabled Cookmygrub to scale confidently, ensuring both chefs and customers experience the joy of authentic food without technological barriers.

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Cookmygrub is a UK-based food-tech startup redefining how communities access homemade meals by bridging the gap between passionate home chefs and customers seeking authentic, healthier food alternatives. With 250% growth in 2021, they needed scalable infrastructure and improved performance to handle rapid expansion across the UK.

The main challenges included rapid growth and scalability needs with 250% customer base growth requiring infrastructure to handle high volume orders, user experience consistency requiring intuitive ordering flow to compete with established apps, operational efficiency with manual deployment workflows, and performance monitoring needing proactive identification of bottlenecks.

We redesigned and optimized the web interface with React + TypeScript ensuring intuitive navigation and faster load times, streamlined the ordering flow for one-click hassle-free food ordering experience, ensured full responsiveness for consistent experiences across devices, and implemented AI/ML-driven personalization for recommended meals.

Cookmygrub achieved scalable growth with infrastructure supporting 10x projected user growth and 200+ chef onboarding, improved performance with faster load times and high uptime reliability, enhanced user experience with seamless responsive interface strengthening customer trust, operational efficiency through automated CI/CD, and strengthened community impact empowering home chefs across the UK.

We implemented Node.js + Express backend optimized for high-performance API responses, integrated MySQL and AWS DynamoDB for structured and scalable data storage, built CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Kubernetes for zero-downtime deployments, automated infrastructure monitoring with Datadog, and leveraged Docker + Kubernetes clusters for scalability supporting hundreds of chefs without backend strain.

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