The C in CSS: cascading
Author: Stefano Frasca The Cascade is a fundamental element of CSS: it means that in order to fully understand how an element will be rendered, a developer should be aware…
Tips and tricks for Simple Storage Service S3
Simple Storage Service – S3 is one of the first services created by Amazon AWS, and it is also one of the most popular. Its simplicity has determined its great…
Amazon Aurora with sharding and Autoscaling
This article describes, from an infrastructural point of view, how to use together the doctrine sharding and Amazon Aurora Autoscaling, on our databases. Nuvola is our main project, which allows…
PHP tip: array_diff an array of objects
That’s tricky! Let’s assume we have two arrays like these: [crayon-6010369fd5696970444056/] Looking at these few lines I would expect that those two arrays are different but if we compare them…
Amazon Managed Blockchain
Una delle tecnologie più recenti e più promettenti è quella della blockchain(Attenzione alla “B”, con la maiuscola si fa riferimento alla Blockchain di Bitcoin, con la “b” minuscola alla tecnologia…
Lightweight controllers everywhere in Symfony
The usual way of defining a controller in a default Symfony installation is by placing it in the src/Controller directory, but there might be situations where you just don’t want…
Composition over inheritance: tackle the “Template Method”
In this article we’re gonna talk about composition over inheritance but not approaching this topic from a theoretical point of view (you can find dozens of good articles online by…
Dependency injection – Come iniettare servizi taggati
Tagged services Per indicare che un servizio svolge un particolare ruolo in Symfony è possibile configurarlo aggiungendo uno o più tags alla sua definizione. Per esempio, etichettando un servizio con…
TWIG: include VS embed VS macro
There are various types of code reuse in Twig but, what are the differences between them? In this article we’ll explore the differences between include, embed and macro. First of…