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🚀 Tech watch week 39 on September 26, 2025
This week, I'm sharing a selection of interesting resources about PHP, Symfony, Git, and the open-source ecosystem. Here are the highlights 👇 🛰️ Building a mini-CDN with Symfony and FrankenPHP A detailed article explains how to set up a mini-CDN from scratc...
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🎙️HttpChunk with Flow on September 22, 2025
Processing HTTP responses in chunks is a recurring challenge: Multiple requests must be run in parallel. * Some fail (404s, timeouts) and require retries. * Each user returns additional data (todos, posts), resulting in fan-out requests. * This quickly ad...
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🔨 API Platform Conference 2025: a look back at two intense days focused on the Symfony and PHP ecosystem on September 20, 2025
The 2025 edition of the API Platform Conference took place on September 18th and 19th. For two days, the Symfony, PHP, and API communities gathered around keynotes, feedback, and passionate discussions. Here's a talk-by-talk recap to keep a complete record...
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✨ Meetup SQLI on September 17, 2025
On September 16, 2025, the Paris branch of AFUP launched the new season of PHP meetups. For this back-to-school season, the community gathered at the SQLI Digital Experience premises in Levallois-Perret, with a program focused on real-time communication and...
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🎨 Pipe Programming: Linearizing Graph Complexity on September 14, 2025
In many automation and dataflow tools, logic is represented as node graphs. This approach is intuitive at first glance: each node represents an operation, and arrows represent data flows. But as complexity increases, readability decreases sharply. Function...
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🚀 Symfony AI Hackathon – My online experience on September 12, 2025
On September 12, 2025, the Symfony AI Hackathon was held, a full day dedicated to exploring and developing the Symfony AI ecosystem. The event took place in Berlin, at Quentic's offices, but also offered a hybrid mode thanks to Slack and a WorkAdventure in...
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🚀 Tech watch week 37 on September 11, 2025
This week's Watch highlights open source projects, applied research in AI and the web, and practical advances in PHP frameworks and development tools. 🎨 Prompt Engineering Framework The Grace repository explores building a strongly typed prompt engineerin...
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🎲 Rock-Paper-Scissors: A Minimal Model of Balance and Strategy on September 10, 2025
Rock-paper-scissors is often viewed as a simple choice mechanism. Yet, this binary system, expanded to three options, is a canonical example of dynamic equilibrium. Its loop structure illustrates fundamental principles of game theory, mathematical modeling,...
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⛓️ Strong vs Weak References: Mastering Memory and Avoiding Leaks on September 9, 2025
In the world of software development, memory management is an often invisible, yet crucial, topic. The wrong approach can lead to memory leaks, degraded performance, or even unmaintainable applications. This is where two key concepts come into play: strong...
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🔄 Reverse to better reign on September 7, 2025
For nearly ten years, a conceptual blockage held back my experiments: how to properly manage the order of execution in a visual workflow? The answer eventually emerged in a simple but decisive form: invert the blocks to better reign. This blockage, experie...