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Taking Over a Poorly Coded Symfony App: The Method
You inherited a shaky Symfony application from a past vendor. Here is the 4-phase method to regain control, stabilize it and move forward without a rewrite.
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Technical Due Diligence for a Symfony Application
A pre-acquisition audit grid for Symfony applications: 12 signals that move the valuation and a five-axis methodology to turn technical risk into numbers.
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Why Your Domain Should Never Know Symfony
Your business domain should depend on nothing. Not on Symfony, not on Doctrine. Here is why, and what it changes in practice on a real Symfony project.
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Migrating a Symfony App to Hexagonal Architecture
Project retrospective on migrating a monolithic Symfony application to hexagonal architecture: the real steps, the surprises, the trade-offs and the results.
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Symfony Messenger as the Core of Hexagonal Architecture
Symfony Messenger does more than send async messages. Learn how to use it as a Command Bus, Query Bus and Event Bus to structure a hexagonal architecture.
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Everything You Need to Know About Caching
A cache works like RAM: it is a type of memory designed to boost performance. Learn the principles, use cases and best practices of caching on the web.
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Microservices or Modular Monolith?
Structuring your project well is essential. Two architectural approaches dominate: microservices and modular monoliths. How do you decide which one to choose?
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INT ID Limit: How to Migrate to BIGINT
Hit the maximum INT ID in MySQL and everything stops. Learn how to migrate to BIGINT without downtime, monitor auto-increments and rethink your identifiers.
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REST vs GraphQL: How Do They Compare?
REST became the dominant architectural style for transmitting data over HTTP. GraphQL is positioned as its replacement. Here is how the two really compare.
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