EC2 snapshots automating with Ansible
We were looking for a way to have our EC2 EBS volumes snapshotted on a daily basis. We already use AWS and Ansible, so the solution comes quite straightforward: Ansible +…
Scaling Symfony sessions with Memcached
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…
About testing entity state changes (in PHPSpec)
This weekend I was poking into my first PHPSpec tests and I found a real scenario that, I bet, you faced at least once if you do BDD/TDD and so…
Orphan removal, forms collection and collection’s elements swapping: pick your poison
Today we are going to analyze a very common situation if you use Symfony framework: let’s talk about collection of objects, forms used to handle them and “collection swapping” (a.k.a.…
ECMAScript Proposal Process
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…
How to decouple your components and improve testability and code reuse: a practical example
Today we are going to take into account a real example I was working on in the last days. It’s a quite simple case study that does not involve any…
Assets versioning with Symfony and Capifony
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.…