If we want to discuss Developer Experience (DX) in 2026, we have to talk about instantaneous feedback and coding agents. At SymfonyLive Paris 2026, I presented “Coding at the Speed of Thought: Symfony DX in 2026“, where I detailed the bleeding-edge features we have brought to the PHP and Symfony ecosystems. To make this vision…
Category: Talks
How to debug Xdebug… or any other weird bug in PHP
What to do when the debugger has a bug? That’s the question I had to answer when my GitHub notifications went haywire because a new version of Xdebug was crashing FrankenPHP and therefore all the projects that use it. Together, we’ll retrace the epic story of this debugging debugger and discover a method that can…
Containerization Tips and Tricks for PHP apps
API Platform was one of the first PHP frameworks to provide native support for Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and, more recently, Skaffold. The API Platform skeleton also served as the basis for Symfony Docker, the most popular solution for containerizing Symfony projects. These years of developing skeletons compatible with dev environments, continuous integration chains, and…


