Digmia

With increasing information technologies in organisations difficult information systems are established. There is tendency of organisations to safe important information, information of partnership organisations and customers information. We at Digmia have gone through tough and complex process at the end of which we have become ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified.

Each middle-sized or large company sometimes needs to raise the question: “Is my application or product operated on a suitable platform?“ Therefore, we would like to explain to you in more detail what the basic differences are between the available solutions, their advantages and strengths, and thereby facilitate decision-making.

Nowadays, the requirement to maintain operations of multiple information systems becomes more important than any time before. Unfortunately, not every company attributes sufficient importance to this topic, although it really deserves much more attention.

We founded DIGMIA ten years ago - in 2006. We've grown from a small group of technology geeks into three successfull companies – still full of technology geeks :)

Amazing customer support is one of our top priorities. Even though you can find pretty good solution for collecting and evaluating feedback about customer support agents, most of them are provided as a service or are not open-source. We decided to fill this market gap with our partner Essential Data.

Chaos Communication Congress (CCC or C3 for short) is traditionally held between Christmas and New Year. This date is chosen not only because most hackers are free during this time, but also because organizers like to avoid people who go to conferences to escape their job and actual work. An unusual but effective solution.

DIGMIA has decided to separate its team dedicated to ethical hacking, penetration testing and security to form a new brand called Citadelo.

The evocative video made by conference organizer tried to convince the audience that the hacker campgrounds are a Dutch tradition - as well as tulips, windmills, Gouda cheese and wooden shoes. Since 1989, every four years hackers gather in a traditional Dutch style campsite. Imagine a large music festival, substitute concerts with tech lectures and replace a variety of food stalls with tents of various hackerspaces, makerspaces and projects. At night, the camp turns into a twinkling city in which hackers want to prove that the image of the hacker as an intellectual loner is pure cliché.

We use Zabbix for monitoring. If you want to create a lot of items programmatically, it is a good idea to make use of Zabbix API. I decided to try zabbixapi ruby gem which, unfortunately, did not support web checks, so I implemented it in my fork.

Bitcoin conference was an amazing experience for DIGMIA and myself. I wanted to share some thoughts of why I think this event was important and what I learned.

I attended a Running Lean workshop by Ash Maurya. It is closely tied with his book Running Lean which all attendees got for free during the workshop (I already owned it before).

Building of web sites is not our primary business. But every IT company has to have a web. It has been a long way for us and I wanted to share some thoughts about technology that can be used.

When the World Wide Web first became available, it mainly consisted of HTML pages and images residing on disk. Later, common gateway interface became available for more dynamic content. Static HTML pages still prevailed. Design was usually contained in each page. Design changes were difficult.

We have moved to the new office building. This allows us to grow further and to build an in-house datacenter for our customers. The datacenter is connected to two different upstream ISPs via redundant fiber connections.