Blog - Asmir Mustafic

Modular Application Architecture - Static assets

2018-01-17
php, extensibility, plugins, static-files, images, css, js, modules, software, design

When developing software, sometimes we need to allow our application to have plugins or modules developed by third parties.
Static files as images, fonts or in general "files" are often part of a plugin. In this article we will se how to deal to them and how to make them available to the core application.

Modular Application Architecture - Considerations

2018-01-03
php, extensibility, plugins, patterns, api, software-design, software-architecture, modules, software, design

When developing software, sometimes we need to allow our application to have plug-ins or modules developed by third parties.
In this post we will take a general overview on how some popular design patterns can allow us to create plugin based applications and some considerations to keep in mind when implementing them.

Modular Application Architecture - Inheritance

2017-12-13
php, extensibility, plugins, inheritance, api, software-design, software-architecture, modules, twig, classes

When developing software, sometimes we need to allow our application to have plug-ins or modules developed by third parties.
In this post we will see how "inheritance" can help us to build a plugin system for our application.

Modular Application Architecture - Pipelines

2017-11-30
php, extensibility, plugins, hooks, api, software-design, software-architecture, modules, core, events

When developing software, sometimes we need to allow our application to have plug-ins or modules developed by third parties.
In this post we will see in which contexts "pipelines" can be used as plugin mechanism.

Modular Application Architecture - Events

2017-11-14
php, extensibility, plugins, hooks, api, software-design, software-architecture, modules, core, events

When developing software, sometimes we need to allow our application to have plug-ins or modules developed by third parties.
In this post we will start looking on how to implement a plugin-system by using "events".

Modular Application Architecture - Intro

2017-11-01
php, extensibility, plugins, hooks, api, software-design, software-architecture, modules, core

When developing software, sometimes we need to allow our application to have plug-ins or modules developed by third parties. Creating a robust architecture that allows a powerful mechanism can be challenging. In this series of posts we will see some strategies to do it.

Immobinet at TTG 2017 Rimini

2017-10-23
tourism, immobinet, apartments, software

From the 12th to the 14th of October 2017 I was presenting with Mercurio Sistemi S.r.l. "Immobinet", a software to manage touristic rentals as apartments, villas any similar types of accommodation.

How do I deploy my Symfony API - Part 5 - Conclusion

2017-10-18
php, symfony, aws, deploy, symfony, api, docker, amazon, ec2, swarm

This is the fifth and last article from a series of blog posts on how to deploy a symfony PHP based application to a docker swarm cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances.
This post is a conclusive post. Contains a summary and some tips.

How do I deploy my Symfony API - Part 4 - Deploy

2017-10-10
php, symfony, aws, deploy, symfony, api, docker, amazon, ec2, swarm

This is the forth article from a series of blog posts on how to deploy a symfony PHP based application to a docker swarm cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances.
This post focuses on the final and last step, the deploy.

How do I deploy my Symfony API - Part 3 - Infrastructure

2017-10-04
php, symfony, aws, deploy, symfony, api, docker, amazon, ec2, swarm, puppet

This is the third article from a series of blog posts on how to deploy a symfony PHP based application to a docker swarm cluster hosted on Amazon EC2 instances.
This post focuses on the AWS and instances configuration.