Nuvola: a tale of migration to AWS
In this series of articles we will describe our migration experience to AWS. Why a migration? Our old provider had limits. We had to overcome. In particular: No automation No…
Method order assertion in PHPSpec: Deferred Expectations
Disclaimer This post title can be misleading. Method order is just an implementation detail that should not be tested as PHPSpec philosophy is to test your public API, not the…
Symfony sharding
In a previous post we’ve seen how leverage Doctrine sharding functionalities. But how can we tell our app to use a specific shard? A common web app has usually at least…
Doctrine sharding
In the previous article we explored why sharding by tenant is a very good solution for us. In this article we dig into how to divide our Symfony app by shard.…
Data migration to AWS
In this article, I’ll tell you how we migrated our databases from our previous provider to AWS RDS. Our previous DB infrastructure was already in the cloud and the entire db…
Madisoft speaks at AWS Summit
We are very proud to have been invited by Amazon at AWS Summit Milan 2017 as speakers. Our speech will focus on how we’re using AWS RDS to leverage our…
RDS infrastructure automation with Ansible
In this article we are going to describe how we realized our RDS infrastructure using Ansible as automation tool. We’ve completely avoided using AWS GUI, both for implementation and management…
Symfony form pills – form type options
Today we are going to tackle a problem that I’ve recently faced with Symfony form types. Scenario: I need a choice type of a certain entity (Foo) with values that…
Symfony and multi-tenant apps: sharding
In part 1 of this series we stated that Nuvola is a multi-tenant software and using a single db for every tenant can quickly become a problem as your data grow.…
The subtle difference of Prophecy doubles
Did you know that “under the hood” PHPSpec use Prophecy as library to create doubles? If you did not, now you do! If you read Prophecy documentation you may end up…
Symfony and multi-tenant apps: Nuvola
This article starts a series of posts regarding a case-study about Symfony and multi-tenancy. Subject of the case-study is our flagship software Nuvola, a multi-tenancy product for schools, used since 2013…
SymfonyDay Italy: videos
Hello everybody, we are pleased to announce that finally videos of SfDayIT2016 have been posted by GrUSP onto Vimeo channel. If you don’t know that we were selected as speakers for…