In some circumstances knowing how to generate a criptographically secure random string could avoid to introduce a security breach in your application. If you want to create a random password for a new user or a cryptographic key, you’d better use a strong algorithm which guarantees unpredictable values. But first…
Martedi 9 Gennaio 2018 Madisoft sarà al Cowo42 di Osimo (AN) per parlare di scalabilità di applicazioni PHP. Partendo da sfide affrontate quotidianamente sul nostro software Nuvola, vedremo come siamo riusciti a scalare con successo l’applicazione per gestire milioni di visite e miliardi di dati. La serata è gratuita, compresa la…
As written before we have taken part in Symfony Day. Couple of days ago video of the event were uploaded and you can check them out here We would be happy to have feedbacks so, don’t hesitate!
Symfony form is a standalone component you can use to save a lot of time when developing an application that needs forms to interact with users (checkout my talk and slides from SfDayIt 2016 in Rome) As every powerful component/library/extension, power comes to a price. The price to pay for using…
We are very proud to have taken part at the 2017 Symfony day. Samuele and I spoke about Behat best practices and how to integrate it in your Symfony project. Here are the slides: https://www.slideshare.net/matteomoro8/behat-from-zero-to-hero-a-practical-guide-to-symfony-integration-and-usage Video of the talk will be published by Grusp in the next weeks. For any feedback…
If you are a Symfony developer you can’t miss the annual SymfonyDay conference in Italy. It’s always been a great day to listen to interesting talks and do some networking. As Madisoft we strongly believe both in this amazing framework and in such events. So, also this year, we decided to…
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 two sources: http requests and cli commands. Let’s see one at the time. Http request As you already know HTTP is a…
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. Doctrine We chose Doctrine as our ORM so let’s see what it offers to us. First of all you have to…
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 was sharded, so we had about 350 GB of data split in about 1000 databases. Want to know more about…
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 relation data. As you may already know, our software Nuvola is a data-heavy SaaS and we currently manage more than…