zomo

Wednesday, 08. 20. 2008

About

Zomo is a Bristol UK based IT consultancy focused on UNIX-backed Internet services with over 15 years of hands-on experience. We welcome both blue-skies projects and ongoing work on existing systems.

A brief exposition of what we do and technologies we use is below.

Please get in touch if you’d like to know more.

Application development

Bespoke web application coding, integrating with design and business elements. Programming methodologies concentrate on rapid prototyping, total test coverage and robust data handling. Zomo aim to build applications with scalability built in.

  • Ruby on Rails, Merb, Catalyst
  • RSpec, ZenTest, Continuous integration

Web system architectures

Application servers, scalable architectures, load balancing, server redundancy, stress testing, traffic reporting.

  • Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, Mongrel
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
  • Hearbeat, DRBD, Spread, Wackamole
  • mod_backhand, webalizer, awstats

UNIX

System specification and installation, ongoing maintenance, backup management, performance tuning, resource monitoring, virtualization.

  • FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, OpenBSD
  • Perl, Ruby, POSIX shell

Network

Local and wide area networks, VPN, traffic management, firewalls, distributed processing, intrusion detection.

  • Cisco, HP, Foundry, Alteon
  • TCP/IP, IP6, DNS, BGP, IPSEC, OpenVPN
  • pf, iptables, ipfw

Mail

Mailboxes, webmail, spam control, mail relaying, address management.

  • Exim, qmail, Postfix, SquirrelMail, Courier, vpopmail

Change management

Formal release procedures, source code control.

  • CVS, SVN, RCS, Capistrano

Service assurance

24×7 systems monitoring, support ticketing, datacentre presence.

  • Nagios, RT, Trac, Redmine

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