Rome AWS Meetup day
Saturday the 15th of October we leaved the comfort of our couches (have we already said we are a distributed team from all around Italy?) to leave to the glorious destination of Rome! The ancient town best known for the…
Saturday the 15th of October we leaved the comfort of our couches (have we already said we are a distributed team from all around Italy?) to leave to the glorious destination of Rome! The ancient town best known for the…
In the Scaling Symfony sessions with Memcached article we focused on scaling our Symfony session with Memcached. Memcached is very easy to set-up and use but it lacks of persistence and some other cool stuffs we can find in Redis. What’s Redis?…
Getting informations on a running instance from the inside is a tedious task and it’s usually done in an insecure and error prone way. With this article we want to show you our way to get instance tags from the…
It’s said necessity is the mother of invention and in this article we’ll show the reason why we initially wrote s3-pit-restore. Our infrastructure heavily rely on S3 object storage to store the several millions files our users everyday produce. S3…
Sometimes happens, as it happened to us, that you have one or more services you want to share between your VPCs. For us, the case was for an ELK stack that we use internally to monitor the state of our…
AWS is well known for its cloud services for almost everything you need in a cloud environment. As Madisoft we like them a lot and we use many of them for our cloud activities. We’re very proud and happy to…
Good news mates: we were selected as speakers for Symfony Day 2016 (Italy) that will take place in Rome (tickets available here). Samuele and Matteo sent out their talk proposals and both were picked (checkout program here: all talks are in italian language).…
Sessions are one of the main building blocks of a login-based web application. We’re going to see what they are, what Symfony offers us to handle them and how to scale when you have ton of them. What’s a session? As you…
Reading the countless articles concerning Javascript and specifically ES7, I noticed complete and utter confusion about introduced features. Any new feature introduced after ES6 is tagged as a feature that will be introduced in ES7. Nothing could be further from the truth! Features like…
Just a quick tip for assets versioning with Symfony2. Let’s imagine you have an asset, called “beautifulAsset.js”, in your app. As soon as it’s requested, the user browser caches it. So far so good. Problems arise when you change the…