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.
You hired a developer and cannot read the code. You can still tell whether the work is good. Ask for the right deliverables, ask a few specific questions, and know which warning signs show up outside the code.
Read moreThree meta-frameworks, one product to ship. Where Next.js, Nuxt and SvelteKit differ in practice, which decision factors deserve your attention, and why benchmark blog posts should not be one of them.
Read moreSecurity audit and penetration test get used interchangeably by buyers, and they are not the same purchase. What each one examines, when you need which, and what a SaaS security audit report has to contain.
Read morePackagist lists thousands of Symfony bundles, and most of them should stay out of your composer.json. An opinionated guide to the packages that earn their place in a production Symfony 7 application, the ones to think twice about, and a minimal starting composer.json.
Read moreMost teams review code. Few do it in a way that makes the code better and the people less annoyed. Here is how we run reviews at Wolf-Tech: comment prefixes that set expectations, a hard PR size limit, a turnaround rule, and how to take feedback without taking it personally.
Read moreThe choices you make at 10 users decide what breaks at 10,000. Here are the 50 architecture decisions that most often cause pain later, with a default recommendation for each and the cases where you should pick differently.
Read morePHP developers already know most of what TypeScript asks of them. The concepts map almost one to one, with a few differences that trip people up in the first week. Here is the translation table, plus the parts TypeScript can do that PHP cannot.
Read moreGermany is one of the largest digital health markets in Europe and one of the most regulated. This guide covers what a healthtech founder or CTO needs to know before building for it: DiGA and MDR, gematik and the Telematikinfrastruktur, FHIR and coding systems, Article 9 data, hosting, and the architecture decisions that follow.
Read moreSymfony 6.4, 7.4 and 8.1 are all maintained right now, and each one is the right answer for a different kind of project. Here is the current support matrix, the PHP each version needs, and a decision rule for new builds, running products and legacy apps.
Read moreYou do not need to be a developer to commission a web application well. You do need to know what a serious partner will ask before quoting, how the project should run, what belongs in the contract, and where outsourced projects usually go wrong.
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