A complex product like Nuvola can incur performance degradation over the years because many small inefficiencies don’t have a noticeable effect when analyzed individually, and so their compound effect can gradually become very costly, undetected. We noticed that our backend…
Folder structure is an underrated topic, usually until your project grows and starts having hundreds of files. And what if your project is very very big? What if you have thousands of files? In such a project a well organized…
Il sfday 2021 si è aperto con la mia presentazione “Protezione del dominio e Validazione: Come, dove e perché” durante la quale ho mostrato alcuni approcci da seguire quando si deve gestire la validazione in architetture con più strati (infrastrutturale,…
Hey folks, DonCallisto here. Just a little update. Since today is available the new version (5.2) of Symfony 5 official book named “Symfony 5: the fast track”. We have proudly helped with the translation, in italian language, of the first…
Hey folks, DonCallisto here. I’m glad to announce I’ll be speaking at next Codemotion online tech conf – Italian edition that will take place online in March (my workshop is listed in “Frontend” section, but I’m sure it’s a mistake).…
Ci auguriamo che abbiate apprezzato il nostro talk al sfday Italy 2020 organizzato da GrUSP. In Stop mocking everything, Samuele Lilli spiega quando è corretto usare un mock nei propri test e in quali problemi si potrebbe incorrere utilizzandoli ciecamente…
On Friday, November 20th the first sfday Italy Virtual Edition will take place. This will be the first 127.0.0.1 edition as, unfortunately, we cannot join together in Verona due to Covid-19 restrictions. But Covid-19 didn’t stop the conference from taking…
In October 2019, I was able to present a talk at the annual sfday, the Italian conference about Symfony. The main focus of my presentation was how we handle Doctrine in our setup which includes both master-slave and sharding, something…
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 Italian schools to manage their activities in a computerized way.…
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 to do that. For instance, if you’re using some sort…
