a proposal on how to follow Hexagonal/Clean/Onion architecture in symfony with minimum changes possible — If we look into history of software engineering there are multiple solutions proposed to us around the similar concept (Hexagonal/Clean/Onion architecture) lets see some of them: BCE by Ivar Jacobson in “Object Oriented Software Engineering: A Use-Case Driven Approach” book 1992 Hexagonal Architecture by Alistair Cockburn 2005

The problem: if you follow Symfony’s documentation for database you’ll face a concept named Repository (Product repository in Symfony’s example) which would be generated by default if you use the make command. this is what your controller looks like after using the Dependency Injection by type hinting the $postRepoository argument. …

Software products often don’t alert you with their limitations upfront and most of the time you need to have the bigger picture while digging deep into their documentation to find them out or you’re gonna have to pay the price of using them and finding those limitations out which often…

Here’s some of the lessons I had to learn in production environment so you don’t have to pay the price of making the same mistakes. Lesson 1 : A multi column index performs way better than several indexes on each column For example lets assume we have a users table including first_name and last_name columns , now if we’re querying both columns together most of the…

In this article we are gonna write tests that are independent from database for symfony using the repository pattern. I’ve written an article recently about how to use the repository pattern in a solid way which we are gonna follow in this article as well , here’s a tl;dr for…

we are comparing how the ORM is being handled in laravel vs symfony. THE PROBLEM : The fact that laravel models are tightly coupled with database and that violates the Dependency Inversion principle. keep in mind I’m not talking about projects where the speed of the first development is what matters the most (small projects , MVPs etc). in those project laravel might even be a better choice than symfony.

lets say php has release a security patch and you want to apply that to your docker container. you can follow this instructions to update your php container without any downtime. first of all you have make sure that your php version in the docker file or in the docker…