David Buchmann

David Buchmann

  • Software Developer, Open Source Contributor & Maintainer
  • Zürich

David Buchmann is passionate about all things backend. His tools of choice are Symfony, Elasticsearch and the Varnish HTTP cache. He is active in several Open Source projects, notably the FOSHttpCache library and the HTTPlug client abstraction.

Articles by David

Musings on the Liip Holiday Game 2021

This year's holiday game is a reimplementation of a classic 80ies Atari game.

Debugging PHP Applications at Web Summer Camp 2021

In my workshop at the Web Summer Camp 2021, I trained the participants on how to locate bugs and showed them ways to prevent new bugs through better code quality. Does your team need a …

Integrating rokka.io with the Sculpin Static Site Generator

We recently made the rokka.io Symfony Bundle support uploading images from Twig templates. Sculpin is based on Symfony and can thuse use this bundle.

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 Montreal …

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 …
David Buchmann
Software Developer, Open Source Contributor & Maintainer