We're famous for our MySQL skills, so people sometimes think this is all we do. In reality, our consultants have much broader knowledge and experience. We know all about full-stack web application performance, high availability and scaling, architecture and design, system administration, and day-to-day operations.

On this page we've listed the skills and technologies we can support. Some of the skills are mastered by all of our consultants; others are the particular expertise of one or more team members.

If your favorite technology isn't listed on this page, we can still help you. We'll just need to research it. (That time may be billable, but our consultants are fast learners.) For example, if you ask us to configure rewrite rules on some exotic web server, we'll have to do some reading and experimenting. No such extra work is necessary for supported web servers such as Apache or Lighty.

Operating Systems

Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows

Programming Languages

PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Java, C/C++, Awk, Sed, Shell scripting (csh, bash)

Database Access Layers

Hybernate, Active Record, DBX

Stacks and Applications

Ruby on Rails, Drupal, Wordpress, PhpBB, Vbulletin, Symphony, CakePHP, Fudforum, Merb

Web Servers and Accelerators

Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, Nginx, Tomcat, Varnish, Squid

Network, DNS and Firewalling

Bind, PowerDNS, PowerDNS, VPN, DjbDns, pf, ipf, ipfw, iptables, pfSense

Mail

Postfix, Sendmail, Qmail, Exim, Dovecot, Courier-imap, Cyrus

High Availability

DRBD, MMM, LVS, Whackamole, Heartbeat, HAProxy

Caching

Memcache, APC, Eaccelerator, Xcache

Storage Technologies

RAID, SAN, NAS, LVM, NFS, CIFS/Samba, iSCSI

System Administration and Operations

Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, Puppet, Monit, Rsync, Rdiff, SNMP

Debugging and profiling

Oprofile, Gdb, Xdebug, Kcachegrind, YourKit

Control Panels and Virtualization

Vmware, Virtuozzo/OpenVZ, Vserver, Xen, Cpanel, Webmin, Plesk

Web Services

EC2, S3, CDN

Version Control

RCS, CVS, SVN, Mercurial, Bitkeeper

MySQL Storage Engines and Technologies

MyISAM, InnoDB, Falcon, PBXT, Archive, Federated, Blackhole, UDF, Custom Extensions and Storage Engines, Replication, Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, Query Optimization, Schema Optimization and Indexing.

Full Text Search

MySQL Full Text Search, Sphinx

MySQL Tools

Innotop, Maakit, MySQL Proxy, MonYog, MySQL Monitoring and Advisory Services, Mysqlreport, Log analyzers

Hardware

Servers, RAID, CPUs, KVM, Remote Power Management, Switches