End Point Services
We tackle the difficult online development and operational challenges that face businesses today. Our skilled consultants can help you, whether it's with a unique ecommerce feature implementation, scaling your site up to meet increased demand, or securing your complex systems.
Our Expertise
End Point is a full-service ecommerce consultancy. We have the expertise and knowledge to choose the right tools, look at the big picture, and we excel in all aspects of the industry:
Front-end Development
We create attractive and useful web experiences that help your visitors find the information they need, participate in your community, or complete a purchase with a minimum of friction.
- Front-end programming: JavaScript and Ajax with jQuery, YUI, Dojo, Prototype, Mootools
- User interface design and development: CSS, XHTML/HTML, mobile, Flash
- Search engine optimization
- Performance monitoring
- Functional testing
- Online marketing
- Analytics: Omniture, Google Analytics
Recent Presentation Layer Development Blog Articles
Presentation Layer
Back-end Development
We have extensive experience with server-side development and focus on the security, reliability, and scalability of ecommerce applications.
- Ecommerce applications: Interchange, Spree, Magento
- Ecommerce features: merchandising systems, shipping and payment gateway integration, internationalization, inventory management, PCI compliance
- Frameworks: Django, Ruby on Rails, Catalyst
- Content management: MediaWiki, WordPress, Drupal
- Languages: Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, Java
Recent Application Layer Development Blog Articles
MySQL replication monitoring on Ubuntu 10.04 with Nagios and NRPE
Importing Data with RailsAdmin
Using Disqus and Ruby on Rails
ActiveRecord Callbacks for Order Processing in Ecommerce Applications
Take a snapshot in Cucumber and sync it with Dropbox!
Some great press for College District
Application Layer
Database layer Development
End Point's developers have decades of combined experience in designing, developing, and maintaining effective and well-structured databases.
- Database expertise:PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle
- Database replication: Bucardo, Slony
- DBA skills: Administration, Architecture
- Server architecture: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, (Open)Solaris
Recent Data Layer Expertise Blog Articles
Linux unshare -m for per-process private filesystem mount points
Semaphore limits and many Apache instances on Linux
RPM building: Fedora's _sharedstatedir
Raising open file descriptor limits for Dovecot and nginx
RHEL 5 SELinux initscripts problem
Google 2-factor authentication
Red Hat SELinux policy for mod_wsgi
Data Layer
Operations and Architecture Maintenance and Development
End Point provides architecture development and support, web hosting, email hosting, and has experience with site monitoring tools.
- Hosting and Configuration: iptables, Puppet, Varnish, Squid, nginx, lighttpd, Apache
- Web Architecture Development and Support
- Web Security: pf, OpenVPN
Recent Operations and Architecture Blog Articles
Protecting and auditing your secure PostgreSQL data
Linux unshare -m for per-process private filesystem mount points
Book Recommendation: Ghost in the Wires
Home router problems with .0 IP address
RHEL 5 SELinux initscripts problem
