Marcel Moll

Symfony Messenger: What the Documentation Does Not Cover

Last year we took over a Symfony e-commerce application that was struggling under a combination of high customer traffic and a constant flood of write operations from external systems: product updates, price changes, availability feeds, all hitting the application simultaneously. The Messenger setup was already in place. Messages were being

The Hidden Power of Symfony's EventDispatcher

Most developers use the EventDispatcher for simple notifications and never go deeper. That's a mistake. Here's what's actually in the toolbox and when to reach for it.

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