Loïc Faugeron

TL;DR: The Command Bus pattern can help you get the CQRS "Command" part right.

Ever wondered how nginx outperforms Apache or what does NodeJs mean by "event-driven, non-blocking I/O"?

TL;DR: Put a reverse proxy (for HTTP cache or load balancing purpose) in front of your application, to increase its performances.

TL;DR: Run your application as a HTTP server to increase its performances.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date.

TL;DR: Links I tweeted during 2015 It's funny how old principles are still useful today.

Couscous is a static site generator tool for your Github projects, converting all markdown files into an online documentation hosted by Github Pages.

Previously using Carew, the static website generator, this blog has now been migrated to Sculpin.

TD;DR: Symfony has always been able to be used as a micro framework.

TL;DR: Enable HTTP cache by setting one of the following header in your Responses: Cache-Control, Expires, Last-Modified or Etag.

PSR-7 is a standard providing interfaces for HTTP messages.

Pagination libraries like Pagerfanta or KnpPaginator usually require a QueryBuilder: // Usually in a controller $queryBuilder = $this->itemRepository->queryBuilderForFindAll(); $results = $paginationService->paginate( $queryBuilder, $currentPageNu…

In the last two articles, we've seen how to decouple our application: from frameworks, using the Command Bus pattern from libraries, using the Inversion of Control principle Decoupling can be considered as a "Best Practice" as it is a good protection agai…

Libraries are similar to frameworks: they solve infrastructure problems (e.g. requesting remote endpoints or querying databases).

Frameworks solve infrastructure problems, for example how to create a HTTP or CLI application.

PHPUnit is a port of jUnit, its name might be deceptive: it allows you to write any type of tests (unit, but also functional, system, integration, end to end, acceptance, etc). phpspec was at first a port of rspec, it can be considered as a unit test fram…

Just like SimpleBus, Tactician is a lightweight library created by Ross Tuck allowing you to use the Command Bus design pattern in your applications.

TL;DR: CQRS is about not mixing "read" and "write" logic.

Zend Diactoros is a lightweight library providing implementations for PSR-7 interfaces.

Pomm is an interresting alternative to Doctrine (DBAL or ORM), it specializes in one database vendor: PostgreSQL.

phinx is a lightweight migration library, completly decoupled from any framework and libraries.

Simple Bus is a lightweight library created by Matthias Noback allowing you to use the Command Bus design pattern in your applications.

Reference: This article is intended to be as complete as possible and is kept up to date. phpspec is a highly opinionated unit test framework: it was conceived to practice specBDD (test method names should be sentences) and Mockist TDD (collaborators shou…

This series isn't really working for me, so I've decided to conclude it prematurely.

This is the second article of the Symfony Differently series, Have a look at the first one: Introduction.

Symfony is an amazing HTTP framework which powers high traffic websites.

TL;DR: SpecGen v0.3 inserts a property for each constructor argument.

TL;DR: SpecGen v0.2 inserts use statements.

TL;DR: SpecGen is a phpspec extension that improves its code generator.

TL;DR: Memio is a PHP code generator library, the main repository provides integration with Twig templates, but by using the smaller package pretty-printer on its own it is possible to be decoupled from any template engines.

TL;DR: PrettyPrinter converts a Model into its PHP code (returns a string), using Twig templates.

TL;DR: Write constraints to check models integrity.

TL;DR: Describe code by building models.

TL;DR: Work in Progress: Memio, a library for PHP code generation.

TL;DR: Happy April Fool joke!

Deprecated: This series has been re-written - see The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony This is the seventh article of the series on managing Web Services in a Symfony environment.

Deprecated: This series has been re-written - see The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony This is the sixth article of the series on managing Web Services in a Symfony environment.

Deprecated: This series has been re-written - see The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony This is the fifth article of the series on managing Web Services in a Symfony environment.

Deprecated: This series has been re-written - see The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony This is the fourth article of the series on managing Web Services in a Symfony environment.

Deprecated: This series has been re-written - see The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony This is the third article of the series on managing Web Services in a Symfony environment.

Deprecated: This series has been re-written - see The Ultimate Developer Guide to Symfony This is the second article of the series on managing Web Services in a Symfony environment.