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 for our cloud activities. We’re very proud and happy to be part of the AWS Meetup in Rome on 15th…
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 picked (checkout program here: all talks are in italian language). Matteo’s proposal is entitled “Scaling Symfony apps” and will start at…
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 + AWS = Daily Snapshots Our procedure works with Ansible >= 2.1. First step is about gathering every information required to build the…
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 you have ton of them. What’s a session? As you know the HTTP protocol is stateless: each request is independent from…
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 on. I’m talking about testing an object that changes state of another object. DISCLAIMER I will not post any real…
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. changing owner onto owning side of a collection relationship in doctrine). Scenario What we get here is a trivial situation: let’s…
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 ES7. Nothing could be further from the truth! Features like async function or decorators will not be introduced in ES7, so…
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 knowledge about our software or domain so is perfect to show how, with a little bit of work, you can…
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. So far so good. Problems arise when you change the code inside “beautifulAsset.js” and deploy your application. If you don’t…