Lukas Kahwe Smith

Lukas Kahwe Smith

  • Software Developer, Platform Gardener

Lukas has been working with PHP since before the century with a focus on backend architectures and databases and has worked on various open source libraries. He is the current lead of the diversity initiative for the Symfony project. In his spare time he is a passionate ultimate frisbee player.

Articles by Lukas Kahwe

Drupal Mountain Camp 2019

Drupal Mountain Camp also covered topics like open source sustainability and diversity&inclusion.

Dear SaaS vendors

There are a lot of SaaS vendors that offer useful tools but beyond the core functionality I am quite disappointed with how little SaaS vendors seem to care about making integration …

Headless B2B marketplace?

The eCommerce world is undergoing a major new evolution step, moving away from tightly coupled monoliths towards modular monoliths. I know the word monolith has a lot of bad …

Overview of open source API gateways

HTTP based APIs have long established themselves as a successful pattern for organizations. Increasingly these APIs are made available to the public or at least are leveraged more and …

APIs for the public sector

I recently gave a presentation (in German) at the Beschaffungskonferenz. This is a conference for the public sector to exchange round procurement of IT. There were several tracks some …

Startup tool inspiration – what we use

Liip has a fair number of startup customers who often struggle with finding the right set of tools, so I will share here a bit what we are using on a daily basis. We traditionally use …

Symfony: A look back and what it all means

As we were preparing the news about becoming a Sensiolabs Silver Partner , I brought back a bit to the history of Symfony here at Liip. We did do a few symfony v1 projects at Liip but …

Playing well with others

I was invited to speak at the T3DD15 , the TYPO3 Developer Days 2015, on the topic of community collaboration. Indeed my presence there was also made happen because there was a big …

REST API for a content repository

When we launched the Symfony CMF initiative back in 2010, one of the first decisions that was made was to adopt JCR as the basis for our work as we felt that one of the biggest short …
Lukas Kahwe Smith
Software Developer, Platform Gardener