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Running Symfony Applications with PHP-PM or PHPFastCGI

PHP is a shared-nothing platform. This means that each time a request comes to your server your PHP application starts anew. PHP-PM is a way of running PHP in an alternative way, by maintaining a pool of PHP application…


MySQL 5.7 brings sexy back with JSON

NoSQL has been the darling of backend developers clamouring for high performance. NoSQL is fine for many uses, but many systems still use MySQL (or other relational databases) for data storage - and will continue to do …



eZ Platform + Symfony vs. Neos CMS + Flow

In the previous article I wrote about the refactoring effort done on the TYPO3 CMS. During the discussion I found this related video discussing two different approaches of refactoring a CMS tool. The video is from 2013 …


Refactoring TYPO3 CMS: Neos, Flow and... Symfony?

TYPO3 is a LAMP CMS that has been in development since 1998, with initial development done by Kasper Skårhøj in Denmark. Typo3 is often overshadowed by more popular projects such as WordPress and Drupal, but it continue…


Technology Does Not Matter

I've had the privilege of attending some great events this year: WordCamp, PHP / eZ Publish Summer Camp and finally DrupalCon. These were all great experiences for a professional working with Web Content Management, but…