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.
Teams that build on third-party foundation models inherit GPAI transparency duties they rarely realise exist. Here is which disclosures apply to integrators versus model providers, and how to surface them without scaring users.
Read moreMost SaaS teams cannot tell whether their AI features fall under the EU AI Act's high-risk rules. This guide walks through Annex III scope checks, the conformity assessment route, Annex IV documentation, and CE marking — step by step.
Read moreNIS2 gives you 24 hours to file an early warning after detecting a significant incident. That clock is unforgiving if you design the process mid-crisis. Here is the runbook to build now.
Read moreMost Next.js performance problems are invisible until they hit production. This guide covers the measurement-first profiling workflow — using instrumentation hooks, bundle analyzer, and Lighthouse CI — then the four highest-impact optimizations for TTFB, JavaScript bundles, images, and database queries in Next.js 15.
Read moreChoosing a tech stack for your SaaS MVP is one of the few early decisions that echoes through every funding round and engineering hire that follows. Here is the structured framework that separates defensible choices from expensive regrets.
Read moreChoosing a tech stack for your SaaS MVP is not a technical question — it is a business risk decision. This framework covers the four constraints that actually determine the right stack, five MVP archetypes with concrete recommendations, and the red flags that lead to expensive rewrites at Series A.
Read moreA five-phase process for modernising a Symfony 2 or 3 codebase to Symfony 7 — without the risk and cost of a full rewrite. Covering baseline measurement, upgrade paths, test-first strategies, Rector automation, and safe cutover.
Read moreChoosing the wrong authentication library costs you weeks of refactoring. Here is how Auth.js v5, Clerk, Better Auth, and Lucia stack up for multi-tenant B2B SaaS built on Next.js 15.
Read moreFrance is Europe's second-largest RegTech market, but its compliance landscape — ACPR, AMF, CNIL, and data residency mandates — creates barriers that catch foreign SaaS vendors off-guard. This guide maps the French RegTech landscape and what you need to know before you pitch.
Read moreA phase-by-phase checklist for wiring Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Sentry into a single coherent observability stack — covering collector config, SDK instrumentation in Symfony and Next.js, Grafana datasource wiring, alert routing, and the three integration mistakes that cause phantom alerts.
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