Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop (worker-owned cooperative). Creator of API Platform, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and of some Symfony components.
Antoine Bluchet and I have just released the new major version of API Platform during the opening keynote of the API Platform Conference! As usual, API Platform 3 can be downloaded directly from our GitHub page. This version comes with many major features that are being presented at the conference. Say hello to API Platform…
I’m very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Mercure.rocks hub version 0.14. Mercure is a free and open-source solution for real-time communication. With Mercure, securely push data to all your connected users with a simple POST request. No third-party library or SDK is required: the browser (or any other type of client) receives…
When working on enterprise projects, it’s common to have to download private dependencies that require authentication to be installed (usually, internal or paid packages). In modern setups, you’ll most likely use Docker to package your application (or service) and all its dependencies into a standalone image. Typically, building the Docker image is automated through a…
If you attended AFUP Day 2022, you might know that I am currently working on a PHP module for web servers written in Go. While testing my upcoming library, I encountered strange memory access issues related to the threads created by the Go runtime (you know, cgo…). By default, the Go scheduler runs many goroutines…
Caddy is the rising star of web servers. It is fast, easy to configure, fully featured (automatic TLS certificate generation and renewal, HTTP/3, cloud-native, config hot reloading…), and secure (it is written in Go, not in C). Thanks to its unmatched extensibility that makes it a top-notch app platform, Caddy has a thriving ecosystem! To…
At SymfonyLive Paris, I introduced a new PHP library to build Solid applications: Solid Client PHP. In this presentation, I present the Solid protocol and how it could give back the control of their personal data to end-users. View the recording (slides in English, talk in French). This presentation is about decentralized web applications, but…
Version 3 of the popular Doctrine DBAL library has been released at the end of 2020, almost 10 years after the initial release of version 2. In September 2021, Doctrine ORM 2.10 added support for DBAL 3, while still supporting DBAL 2 at the same time. Versions prior to 2.10 aren’t compatible with DBAL 3….
In modern web applications, it’s a common pattern to serve the web API and the frontend app from different subdomains: https://api.example.com: your web API, usually serving JSON documents https://example.com: your web application, usually built in JavaScript, generating HTML documents from the raw JSON data retrieved from the API This was the pattern implemented by API…
I’m very excited to announce that after 6 years of teamwork, Symfony and API Platform now include an industry-first set of tools designed to automatically create, manage and run the Docker containers needed for your applications. Read my article on the Symfony blog Watch my Symfony World talk Browse my slides deck:
Here is the slide deck I used for my talk “Edge Side APIs” at ForumPHP 2021. I introduced a new architecture for web APIs derived from REST and inspired by Jamstack: ESA.