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.
The React data fetching landscape has split into two camps: Server Components and React Query. Most teams pick one and force everything through it. The better answer is a decision framework built on the four data patterns every B2B SaaS actually has.
Read morePlatform engineering is not just for companies with a dedicated platform team and a Kubernetes cluster. Here is how a 5-20 engineer SaaS team builds an internal developer platform from conventions, pipeline templates, and Kamal instead.
Read moreGraphQL gets adopted for the wrong reasons and abandoned for the right ones. Here are the four scenarios where it genuinely beats REST in production, the four where it backfires, and how to defend against the N+1 problem before it takes down your API.
Read moreMost teams enable PHPStan at level 0 and never move it, because jumping to level 8 surfaces thousands of errors at once. Here is the incremental migration strategy that gets real codebases there while feature work keeps shipping.
Read moreMost PHP teams know Rector exists. Few have run it on a real legacy project. A practical workflow: installation in old codebases, rule set order, custom rules, dry-run review, and honest before/after results from a 40K-line Symfony 3.4 upgrade.
Read moreDoctrine Migrations only knows about one EntityManager unless you tell it otherwise. Here is the full multi-database setup: separate connections in doctrine.yaml, per-manager migration configs, the --em and --configuration flags, the deploy command sequence, and the schema-per-tenant pattern.
Read moreA buyer's guide to the vibe code audit: who needs one, the seven dimensions it covers, how long it takes, and what the findings report and remediation roadmap look like.
Read moreA practical guide to running Kamal 2.x in production: rolling deploys with health checks, secrets management without a Vault cluster, Symfony migration hooks, and an honest look at where Kamal stops being the right tool.
Read moreThinking about hiring a legacy code refactoring service? Here is what a real engagement looks like, what it costs in the EU market, and the questions you should ask before signing anything.
Read moreLow CTR despite decent rankings usually means the search intent is off. This guide reframes Symfony performance as an audit workflow: how to profile with the Symfony Profiler and Blackfire, what to look for, and the five problems found most often in real codebases.
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