Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop (worker-owned cooperative). Creator of API Platform, FrankenPHP, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and of some Symfony components.
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…
One of Symfony’s strengths is its caching mechanism (the files stored in “var/cache”), which enables framework components such as the dependency injection container and the router, as well as numerous bundles, to be ultra-fast in production. However, during development, regeneration of this cache can cause slowness and make the work of programmers tedious. Each time…
Compressing HTTP responses can significantly improve the performance of your PHP and Symfony applications. But you must still navigate the jungle of standards and formats. In this presentation, we’ll discover how HTTP compression works, the different formats supported by modern web browsers (deflate, gzip, Brotli, and the brand-new Zstandard), and how to use them correctly….