Repository for the article: https://github.com/stefpe/phpstan What is static code analysis? With static code analysis, you can check whether your code fits the defined requirements in terms of form and syntax. The check is performed without executing the program. …

Software as a service apps should store configuration values in environment variables when you rely on the twelve-factor app Saas guide. The twelve-factor rule says you should seperate config from your code, because configuration varies across environment stages: https://12factor.net/config Since nginx version 1.19 it’s possible to replace values in nginx…

In this post, I show how your application running in ECS withstands load peaks automatically. Everything can be managed in infrastructure as code(IaC) setup via terraforming. What is ECS Autoscaling? It’s the ability to adjust the desired count of tasks in your ECS service. How does it work internally? AWS uses Cloudwatch metrics to check the average CPU/Memory of…

Finally it is possible to connect via CLI to your running containers in AWS ECS Fargate/EC2 via the AWS CLI/API. No matter if your ECS cluster runs in a private subnet or not. No bastion/jump host is necessary. At the moment only the newest 1.* AWS CLI release has the…

In this post we take a look what AWS RDS offers to be a high performant and resilient database system. RDS has two capabilities called Multi AZ and read replicas to get this done. What means multi AZ on RDS? Feature to keep your database service running and make it resilient Another RDS instance(replica) gets configured…

You covered your codebase with unit tests but you’re still facing some weird bugs from time to time and don’t know how to find the issues in your web application, serverless endpoint or cron job script? …

You want to check services running in a private subnet in your VPC on AWS, or just want to play around with the shell on a small instance on your private network? …

What do we build? In this post we’re gonna implement a search as you type feature with Symfony. We will feed product information into Elasticsearch, build a user interface to search for a product by it’s title and manage the Symfony integration to query Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is an open source search and analysis engine…

Let’s checkout how to connect Symfony with Amazon SQS and SNS Services by using a Symfony component. Github repo for this article: stefpe/symfony_messenger_sqs_sns This is a Symfony example how to use a AWS SQS Queue to dispatch and consume messages async. One consumption handler…github.com What is the Symfony Messenger? It’s a Message-Bus that can be used for the following design patterns: Command-Bus