Consultancy

We help you to assess and answer your technical, architectural or development questions on: 

• PHP (PHP4 et PHP5)
• MySQL (MySQL4 et MySQL5) and Informix Dynamic Server
• Symfony
• Linux, Apache, Lighttpd, Memcache
• Search-engine optimization (SEO) and keywords campaign.

We work daily with Symfony since version 0.4 made public in 2005. 

Short term or long term, we can bring you the necessary support to make your projects based on those technologies a success.

For search-engine optimization, we can work with you to enhance the natural capacity of your website to be indexed and ranked fairly in Google(tm) or Yahoo(tm). We can help you to write ads and select keywords that work well on Google AdWords(tm) or Yahoo Search Marketing(tm)

Intranet, Extranet et Internet 

As we master Symfony since 2005. we can develop rapidly and efficiently your website project.

This website can be an internal Intranet, an extranet website to communicate with your sales channels or a public Internet website full-fledged with the latest Web 2.0 technologies.

We rely on agile development method (SCRUM) for project management to make sure we deliver what you expect and pay for. 

We specialize in :

• Complex credentials: login, password, roles, groups, audit.
• Localized content (I18n): English, French, Chinese.. no problem! We can display and store all of them.
• Integration of payment gateway: PayPal Cart, Subscription and IPN
• Import and Export of heterogeneous source of data into your website: XML, CSV, Access, web services (SOAP, REST, XML-RPC, XMPP)
• Web 2.0 technologies: AJAX, Javascript
• Respect of W3C standards (XHTML, CSS)
• Performance tuning for high traffic website:
  • Lighttpd: complex configuration for website mixing dynamic and static content
  • Caching of database or computation results
  • Clustering and load-balancing
  • Content Distribution Network (CDN)

From specifications to delivery, we do the project management based on iterative development (SCRUM). This methodology allows us to deliver to you a product that really meet your expectations and your budget constraints.

Maintenance

You have got an existing Symfony application and you are afraid of bit rot ? Or compatibility issues with new versions of the various underlying software ? Or to lag behind all the security patches that need to be applied regularly to insure the security of your application ?

We can audit and analyze your existing application and bring it up-to-date with current version of the various components.

Performance tuning

The overall performance of an IT system is the combination of the performance of all the individual components.

The biggest risk in trying to optimize the performance is to bark the wrong tree and devote a lot of time, effort and money solving performance issues on components not critical to the overall velocity of the system. 

Our experience in optimizing large PHP and Symfony installations will help you to select the right target and to prioritize and maximize your effort.

We cover all the domains where a performance tuning could be needed:

• Database schema
• Database engine tuning
  
• Caching
• PHP accelerator and optimizer
• High speed webserver
• Network stack tuning for Linux and Solaris
• Hardware or software load-balancing
• IP redundancy (HSRP) or Internet transit strategy (BGP, multi homing)