Architecture

We migrated a media microservices platform to Symfony 6 at the start of 2022. Twelve services, most of them consuming messages from RabbitMQ via Swarrot. Symfony 6 made Messenger more central than ever, and during the migration planning a developer asked the obvious question: why not switch at the same time? It ships with the framework. It has retry logic, native AMQP support, first-party documentation. Our setup looked artisanal by comparison. ...

Symfony 4.0 released November 30, 2017, same day as 3.4. The shared release date is pretty much the only thing they have in common. 4.0 is a different philosophy. The Symfony Standard Edition, the monolithic starting point that bundled everything and left you to remove what you didn’t need, is gone. In its place: a microframework that grows. Flex Symfony Flex is a Composer plugin that changes how you install Symfony packages. Before Flex, adding a bundle meant: install via Composer, register in AppKernel.php, add config to config/, update routing if needed. Four steps, all manual. ...