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…
What’s new in PHP7.1
Introduction If you have not read yet our blog post about new features in PHP7, we highly recommend to do so before continue reading. In this post we’re going to…
What’s new in PHP7
Haven’t you switched to PHP7 yet? If not, you should read “How Badoo saved one million dollars switching to PHP7” and consider to change your version. Moreover, remind to update at least to…
Symfony form pills – Value object
Suppose that we have a value object or, more in general, an object where its data has been set in the constructor
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class Foo { protected $bar; protected $foobar; public function construct($bar, $foobar) { // .... } } |
and its FormType
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class FooType extends AbstractType { public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options) { $builder ->add('bar') ->add('foobar'); } // ... } |
Let’s assume that bar and foobar are taken from HTTP…
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…
Scaling Symfony sessions with Redis
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…
Getting EC2 instance tags from the inside of a running instance
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…