Join the PHP meetup Frankfurt on the 23rd of November for our last meetup in 2023.

Last week Docusaurus released version 3.0.0 and we managed to upgrade our blog without many issues.

Last week I traveled to Poznań, Poland to speak at SyliusCon 2023 about the Gally connector we've built for our partner Gally.

While setting up a GitLab CI build & deployment pipeline for one of our customer projects, I had the need to expose GitLab's environment-specific variables in multiple jobs as I needed the information in the build & deployment steps. Since I needed to run the jobs on different servers, I was not able to combine both jobs.

Deployer is a valuable tool that simplifies and automates the deployment process of PHP applications in a traditional non-container environment.

Following our guide to set up Traefik, Docker, and Compose with multiple networks, I ran into a problem:

a network with name customer_staging_default exists but was not created for project "customer_staging"
Set `external: true` to use an existing network

network customer_staging_default was found but has incorrect label com.docker.compose.network set to "staging_default"

One of my recent tasks was to run an upgrade of a production PostgreSQL database. Since we have PostgreSQL running in a Docker container in our Hashicorp Nomad environment, I assumed it would be enough to switch to a new Docker image and everything would be working fine.

For traditional non container deployments, Deployer is a value tool to simplify & automate the deployment process of a PHP application. Thanks to its collection of default deployment recipes, Deployer can be used out-of-the-box for deployments.

We returned to the charming city of Lille for this year's edition of the API Platform Conference. However, this time, we weren't merely attendees; we were speakers. As we again set foot in France, we knew we were in for another exceptional experience.

We run into an issue in a Sylius project where we've been using the Sylius InvoicingPlugin as well as the SyliusPayumStripePlugin plugin to handle Stripe payments. Invoice emails were sent out twice to the customer with both plugins active.