Full Fat Things
Drupal experts based in London and Birmingham, UK. We make beautiful Drupal sites and consult on Drupal high performance. We also consult and train on development practices and help set up structured development and test environments that support agile projects.
Get in touch now:
- Email Stewart Robinson from Full Fat Things now
- or call +44 7909 696 038
Clients
Full Fat Things consult with Everything Everywhere (Orange & T-Mobile) on their Drupal sites.
Turner use Full Fat Things to to handle performance and development processes for the Toonix.com, The Cartoon Network and other children's properties.
Full Fat Things consult with The Royal College of Physicians on their Drupal site.
The YHA chose Full Fat Things to consult on their pending move to Drupal.
AAT, The AAT chose Full Fat Things to consult and guide them on their move to Drupal.
Frommers, a division of Wiley Publishing use Full Fat Things to consult on and help build their Drupal 7 sites.
Oxfordshire County Council use Full Fat Things to consult on Drupal 7 development practices and scalability planning for the rebuild of their portfolio.
Full Fat Things have consulted with Cap Gemini on performance, scalability and processes for their Drupal sites.
data.gov.uk: The COI engaged Full Fat Things to rehost, tune the configuration of Drupal Pressflow, MySQL, Varnish Cache and the Linux kernel to deliver blissfully fast experiences.
IndigoBlue are a leading agile consultancy. Their customers range from the largest blue chip organisations to small specialist groups. Full Fat Things built the new IndigoBlue site.
Full Fat Things consulted with CMC Markets.
The Loot needed performance optimisation to their Sql Server 2008 production database as well as process improvement. Full Fat Things rolled out an improved development process including migrating to Mercurial and improving continuous build practices.
The Economist Stewart Robinson managed The Economist conversion to Drupal, defining the architecture for high performance utilising Varnish Cache, Replicated MySQL 5 and Pressflow.
Services
Site & Application building
- We are craftsmen. All the practitioners at Full Fat Things believe in the web and everything it stands for. We craft sites to be beautiful both above and below the bonnet.
Performance and scalability
- Performance problems rarely require the addition of new hardware. Often tuning of Drupal, Memcached, MySQL and the addition of proxy servers can lower page load time and increase capacity.
Testing environments
- Hosting and management of development and testing environments. Take advantage of the Jenkins Continuous integration tool that can build your test environments based on your source control commits, unit tests. We host or manage staging environments on dedicated hardware, Amazon EC2 or hosted on the Rackspace cloud running on Debian, Ubuntu or Centos/Red Hat.
Site architecture planning and review
- Health checks and practical help planning a great durable Drupal website.
- Environment reviews to identify configuration changes which can increase the speed of your site.
- Have a Drupal website already? Review of speed and configuration for scalability and performance.
Development practices
- Embarking on a Drupal project? Before you set off get help defining your development strategy.
- Is your team building slowly or do you suffer too many bugs in promoting to production? Get help with your practices that promote clean and predictable web site releases.
Managed Jenkins Continuous integration environments
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Jenkins hosting that can build your staging and testing environments or simply test your Drupal sites automatically on every commit!.
- SimpleTest automated testing automatically run on each commit.
- Selenium automated browser testing automatically run on each commit. Test what your customers actually get!.
Managed Drupal sites
- Fully managed Drupal sites. Security patched within hours of security releases, performance and scalability monitoring, automatic notification and investigation of site problems, helpdesk for site issues.
Process review: One day intensive development process review
- One day on site review of your Drupal development practices to help improve delivery speed, developer happiness and productivity. The goal being producing sites quicker and in higher quality.
Site audit
- Review your site code and architecture prior to releasing to find security issues, scalability problems and design flaws.
- Performance problems rarely require the addition of new hardware. Often tuning of Drupal, Memcached, MySQL and the addition of proxy servers can lower page load time and increase capacity.
Testing environments
- Hosting and management of development and testing environments. Take advantage of the Jenkins Continuous integration tool that can build your test environments based on your source control commits, unit tests. We host or manage staging environments on dedicated hardware, Amazon EC2 or hosted on the Rackspace cloud running on Debian, Ubuntu or Centos/Red Hat.
Site architecture planning and review
- Health checks and practical help planning a great durable Drupal website.
- Environment reviews to identify configuration changes which can increase the speed of your site.
- Have a Drupal website already? Review of speed and configuration for scalability and performance.
Development practices
- Embarking on a Drupal project? Before you set off get help defining your development strategy.
- Is your team building slowly or do you suffer too many bugs in promoting to production? Get help with your practices that promote clean and predictable web site releases.
Managed Jenkins Continuous integration environments
- Jenkins hosting that can build your staging and testing environments or simply test your Drupal sites automatically on every commit!.
- SimpleTest automated testing automatically run on each commit.
- Selenium automated browser testing automatically run on each commit. Test what your customers actually get!.
Managed Drupal sites
- Fully managed Drupal sites. Security patched within hours of security releases, performance and scalability monitoring, automatic notification and investigation of site problems, helpdesk for site issues.
Process review: One day intensive development process review
- One day on site review of your Drupal development practices to help improve delivery speed, developer happiness and productivity. The goal being producing sites quicker and in higher quality.
Site audit
- Review your site code and architecture prior to releasing to find security issues, scalability problems and design flaws.