Tobias Nyholm
Articles
Symfony setter injection
The Symfony documentation explains four ways to inject dependencies to your service. In short, you can use the constructor, inject directly to a public property or you can use a two flavours of inject...
Symfony · Runtime · BrefPerformance test: Bref FPM vs Bref + Runtime component
The Symfony Runtime component is AWESOME. I did a talk about it at Symfony World 2021 where I explain how and why it works. I spent a lot of time on the content and the recording, one can still watch ...
Symfony · Messenger · LockSymfony Lock and Messenger component
The lock component have saved me so many times. It helps me with race conditions, it makes my code simpler and my application more reliable. I'm using it to fix all kinds of problems and I've noticed ...
One year of AsyncAws
It has been one year since Jérémy Derussé and I started to work on a new API client for AWS. At the time we could never have imagined how popular it would be. In this first year we had over 1.5 millio...
Symfony · MessengerFinding the correct values for Symfony Messenger failure strategy
Symfony Messenger is great. It has so many features and is super flexible. I want to highlight one of these features in this small post: Failures and retries. Over in the Symfony docs failures and ret...
PHP · BlackfireInstalling Blackfire on multiple servers
We have a lot of applications running on both EC2 machines and a lot of Lambda functions. Most of them are small microservice applications that are rarely updated with new features. We've installed an...
PHP · SymfonyPHP 7.4 preloading benchmark
Preloading arrived to PHP 7.4.0 in November 2019. I was super excited about this and I started to try it out. But I quickly noticed that it was a little buggy when you started with a "real world&...
Serverless · PerformanceOptimize images on S3 with AWS Lambda and Serverless
An image is uploaded on S3, that triggers a lambda that optimize that image and put it back. How hard can that be? It was way more tricky than I thought, especially since Im not used to the Node ecosy...
SymfonySymfony HTTP Client and caching
Symfony has a HTTP client which differ from other clients like Guzzle, Buzz or clients from the HTTPlug organization. Symfony's HTTP client is asynchronous by default. Using asynchronous anything is s...
Bref · Messenger · SymfonySymfony Messenger on AWS Lambda
For the past 4 years we have developed web applications with a message bus. The Symfony Messenger component was released around a year ago and I've loved it since. In the past few weeks we've been dep...
BrefUsing NewRelic with Bref on AWS Lambda
Running serverless is great. When migrating our applications to use Bref we realized that we need a non-standard php-extension. With "non-standard" I mean that the extension is not included ...
WebBlocking vs non-blocking fonts
Just the other day I found out about the font-display: swap; css directive. It basically allows you to configure the browser to load the webpage first and then add the correct fonts when they are load...
SymfonySymfony State Machines and Domain Driven Design
It has been just over 2 years since Symfony released their Workflow component. I was of course thrilled by the news and started to work on multiple PRs to make the component support state machines. It...
SymfonyDefine Symfony access control rules in a database
I was recently at a PHP conference in Odessa where I met many great developers. One of them asked me a question, that the answer was not obvious. His use case was that he wanted to use Symfonys Access...
SymfonyTesting the Symfony 4.1 router
How much faster is the new Symfony router in a real world application? We ran some tests to find out. An improved router A few days ago we received the fantastic news that the Symfony router had been ...
SymfonyGenerate URLs in Symfony commands
It has been great many years since Symfony 2.0 was released. 2.0 did not have as many great features as Symfony 4.0, but it was flexible and you could still accomplish what ever you want. I've just fo...
Always use caret instead of tilde
I've been noticing people having trouble understanding the differences between the caret ("^") and the tilde ("~") operator in the composer.json file. Composer's documentation is g...
Developing · SymfonyOpen files in PHPStorm from you Symfony application
If you want to open files in PHPStorm8 directly from the Symfony debug toolbar there is a neat trick you can use. This is very helpful when you quickly want to find a controller or when you got an exc...
Symfony · Performance · DoctrineChoose owning side in OneToOne relation
Many times I've come got to a situation where I have a unusual high query count. When I inspect the queries in the Symfony profiler I can see that Doctrine is fetching objects I have not requested. To...