Ivinco
A UK-based, fully remote senior engineering team — Kubernetes and DevOps consulting, software development, and data engineering — with roots in search infrastructure (Sphinx and Manticore Search) and MySQL among the databases it has run in production.
Ivinco is an engineering company based in Chatham, United Kingdom, that describes itself as a senior engineering team for tech companies; the team works fully remotely. It was founded in 2009 as a small team building search infrastructure on Sphinx, and it is a close partner of Manticore Search, which grew out of Sphinx in 2017.
Today Ivinco offers Kubernetes consulting (setting up, upgrading, migrating, and running production clusters in the cloud and on-premises), DevOps consulting, software development, MVP development, web scraping infrastructure, and data engineering — pipelines, ETL, storage, and search built and run in production. MySQL is among the technologies it lists as having shipped production systems with, alongside PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, and Redis, and it uses MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse for analytics and serving in its data work. Note that MySQL is one of several databases it works with rather than its sole focus.
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