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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
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?
Symfony HTTP Client and caching
Symfony has a HTTP client which differ from other clients like Guzzle, Buzz or clients from the HTTPlug organization. Symfony’s HTTP client is asynchronous b...
Optimize write to neo4j recommendation engine
In today applications recommendations became quite necessary for better audience/customer targeting. So, as you could assume, we have our own recommendation ...
Retry with SNS and Symfony Messenger
In a previous post I described how we are using Amazon SNS with Symfony Messenger. But what I didn’t mention is how we handle failures. Sure, we write perfe...