Consulting for eCommerce

We provide system engineering, archtecture design and maintenance of system components. Our focus are eCommerce organizations, utilizing - but not limited to - the technology of WWW.

Applications with know-how

• Magento – PHP eCommerce solution, based on ZendFramework

• Jira, Confluence, Fisheye and other Atlassian applications – high quality back-office tools

• Red5 – OpenSource implementation of Adobe Flash features: Streaming / Recording / Remoting

• SAP BusinessObjects – the business intelligence suite

• Microsoft Exchange - Windows Server-based communication suite

Operating systems

• Linux – Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat Enterprise/CentOS, PLD-Linux)

• FreeBSD, OpenBSD

• Solaris, OpenSolaris

• Windows Server

Server software

• Web Servers

  • Apache (incl. FastCGI gateway)

  • NginX

• Application Servers

  • PHP – ZendServer

  • Java – Tomcat, Glassfish

  • Ruby on Rails – Mongrel, Passenger

• Web Acceleration

  • Reverse-proxy caching: Squid, Varnish

  • Content Delivery Network – Level3, Akamai

• Search Engines

  • Sphinx

  • Lucene - solr

• Databases

  • MySQL (including replication and NDB-Cluster)

  • PostgreSQL (including replication)

• Database alternatives

  • Document-oriented databases (CouchDB, MongoDB)

  • In-Memory storage (memcache, membase, redis)

• Clustering for High-Availability and High-Performace

  • Pacemaker, Heartbeat, OpenAIS, lvs, drbd

• Configuration Management

  • Puppet

  • RPM and DEB packages

• Agile Development tools

  • Issue tracking – Jira, FlySpray

  • Documentation – Confluence, MediaWiki, TWiki

  • Continuous Integration - Hudson

  • Deployment – ant, maven, make, capistrano

  • Source Code Management – svn, git

• Performance optimizations

  • HTTP performance meters: jMeter, httperf, ab2

  • Benchmarking methodologies, A/B, regression

• Monitoring and alerting

  • Alerting - nagios, icinga

  • Monitoring - munin, cacti, snmp, mrtg, rrdtool, monit

  • Real-time monitoring solutions for Business Logic

Hardware

• Server lines: HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, Thomas-Krenn

• Firewall: Cisco ASA

• Load-Balancing: Cisco ACE, F5 BigIP, Amazon ELB