Practical insights and guides on PHP/Symfony, React/Next.js, legacy modernization, and software architecture, drawn from 18+ years of building web applications for European businesses.
Most SaaS teams overestimate the value of being in the App Store and underestimate the cost of a native app. This is a decision framework, not a technology tour: the five questions that justify native, the real PWA ceiling in 2026, where Expo fits, and what shared code with a Next.js web app actually buys you.
Read moreMost Symfony security tutorials stop at firewalls and access_control. This guide covers the patterns that actually protect a B2B SaaS: object-level voters, the modern authenticator interface, stateless JWT, safe user impersonation, and audit logging on every auth event.
Read moreMost Symfony + Next.js pipelines grow by accretion until they take 18 minutes and nobody trusts them. Here is a pipeline designed from first principles: a parallel job graph, fast deterministic fixtures, Docker layer caching, migration-safe deploys, and branch protection that does not require babysitting.
Read moreArchitecture decision records are recommended everywhere and maintained almost nowhere. Here is a lightweight ADR process teams actually keep alive, with a five-line template.
Read moreSentry is the default error tracker for SaaS teams, but pricing at scale and EU data residency push many toward alternatives. A practical comparison of managed Sentry, self-hosted Sentry, GlitchTip, Highlight.io, and Rollbar, with a decision matrix and the setup Wolf-Tech uses for Symfony and Next.js projects.
Read moreThe schema decisions you make in week one of a SaaS project set your performance ceiling for years. Here are the 8 choices that separate databases that scale from databases that need painful migrations, from ID strategy to multi-tenant indexing.
Read moreNext.js Middleware runs before every request, and the Edge Runtime it runs in rejects most of what your team knows about Node.js. This post covers the production patterns that hold up: WebCrypto JWT verification, matcher configuration, redirect loops, and the debugging workflow when console.log goes silent.
Read moreTechnical due diligence can claw back valuation or kill a deal outright. Here are the five areas reviewers consistently flag, how to score your codebase before a buyer does, and how to present known issues without spooking anyone.
Read moreMonorepos promise shared code and faster builds, then deliver dependency conflicts and CI runs that rebuild everything on every commit. Here is a Turborepo workspace setup for a 3-10 engineer team that keeps builds correct, caches working, and CI under two minutes.
Read moreTutorial Dockerfiles work locally and fail in production in predictable ways: cache permissions, stale opcache responses, exhausted FPM pools, and health checks that lie. Here is a Symfony 7 container setup that survives real traffic.
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