Amazon S3 point in time restore
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…
Peering multiple VPCs with Ansible
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…
PHPSpec – Array of mocks in constructor: a practical example
If you know PHPSpec a bit, you certainly are aware of let function. [crayon-6004577a46ae2885202256/] that helps you to define “automagic” mocks handled directly by PHPSpec and that you can pass to…
AWS Meetup – Rome
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…
Symfony Day 2016 (Italy, Rome)
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…
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.…