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Open source
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Symfony
The Symfony community has long been the force that drives PHP developer to more modern and stable applications. Most things we do at Happyr is related to this awesome framework.
Recent Posts
Symfony Lock and Messenger component
The lock component have saved me so many times. It helps me with race conditions, it makes my code simpler and my application more reliable. I’m using it to ...
Writing a blog in Ruby is a mistake
I’ve been blogging now and then for over a decade now. I have used Drupal, Wordpress, plain HTML files, static generators as Jekyll and Sculpin. I’ve also us...
One year of AsyncAws
It has been one year since Jérémy Derussé and I started to work on a new API client for AWS. At the time we could never have imagined how popular it would be...
Finding the correct values for Symfony Messenger failure strategy
Symfony Messenger is great. It has so many features and is super flexible. I want to highlight one of these features in this small post: Failures and retrie...
Installing Blackfire on multiple servers
At Happyr, we have about 30 applications running across 14 Amazon EC2 servers and a lot of Lambda functions. Most of them are small microservice application...
PHP 7.4 preloading benchmark
Preloading arrived to PHP 7.4.0 in November 2019. I was super excited about this and I started to try it out. But I quickly noticed that it was a little bug...
Compiling PHP 7.4 on OSX
I think I am a decent PHP programmer, but I am lost when it comes to devops, C, Makefiles and compiling stuff. I just want to write brew upgrade php and be h...
Optimize images on S3 with AWS Lambda and Serverless
An image is uploaded on S3, that triggers a lambda that optimize that image and put it back. How hard can that be?