Doctrine and Generated Columns

Using a smart SQL query with subqueries, we reduced the time to build a data export by a factor of (at least) 50. On the development system with little data, we got from the response …

PSR-18: The PHP standard for HTTP clients

A couple of days ago, the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) approved the PSR-18 "HTTP Client" standard. This standard was the last missing piece to build applications that …

Going Crazy with Caching – HTTP Caching and Logged in Users

HTTP caching is an efficient way to make your application scalable and achieve great response times under heavy load. The basic assumption of HTTP caching is that, at least for some …

Fresh inputs from Confoo Vancouver 2016

I was invited to present at Confoo in Vancouver, Canada. I gave my talk “HTTP caching with Varnish” and a Symfony introduction . After having been invited to Confoo …

IPC: International PHP Conference 2016 in Munich

#overcrowded session with @dbu on #Rest #API at #ipc16 #wtc16 pic.twitter.com/tSGiB8f9W1 — phpconference (@phpconference) 25. Oktober 2016 I have been invited to Munich to do two talks …

Web Summercamp in Croatia – PHP track

HTTP client workshop in the PHP track of Web Summer Camp Rovinj I was invited to do a workshop at Web Summer Camp in Rovinj (yes, last year it was called PHP Summer Camp – it got …

Testing in the Cloud – Using Bamboo with Amazon AWS

Bamboo is the continous integration service by Atlassian, the company owning the code management service Bitbucket (as well as the Jira issue tracker and Confluence wiki). Bamboo can …

Symfony: A Tool to Convert NelmioApiDocBundle to Swagger PHP

We have an API built with Symfony that outputs its specification in the Swagger format. We needed to upgrade from version 1 to 2. As we switched the library to generate the …

Report from the HTTP caching tutorial tour