Individual software

Symfony is the foundation and heart of many of our developments. With more than 10 years of product development, a large open-source community and a variety of plugins and tools, the framework sees itself as a mature, robust and secure standard in the PHP world.

As players in the digital transformation, we also rely on modern and, above all, reliable standards. No matter which project – already with Symfony’s immense basic set of tools and functionalities your individual wishes can be realized quickly, regardless of their size or complexity. Also other companies and technologies, like PimCore or Shopware use Symfony as THE base of their development.

Symfony is scalable and can be used everywhere. In many of our AWS cloud projects, Symfony is used as a framework. Thanks to a high degree of flexibility, systems can be expanded or connected via interfaces with the aid of a wide range of configuration options.

Notable out-of-the-box features that simplify connectivity to cloud technologies include the Rest API, message queuing, authentication, and workflow connections.

Node.js is taking the web development scene by storm, and its popularity continues to grow. Some of the world’s leading companies use Node.js for productive work, such as Microsoft, NASA, Netflix, and Paypal. They use Node.js because it’s fast, lean, and offers a scalable architecture. But what exactly is Node.js?

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment. JavaScript is now the most widely used programming language in the world. The popularity of JavaScript has dramatically changed the nature of web development today. The possibilities on the web when JavaScript with Node.js runs on the server as well as in the browser were hardly imaginable a few years ago or had to be mapped in proprietary environments like Flash or Java Applets.

Of course, every programming language has certain advantages. However, what makes Node.js special is that it achieves low latency and high performance by taking an asynchronous, “non-blocking” approach to serving requests. In other words: Node.js doesn’t waste time or resources waiting for I/O requests to return.

As requests come in to the server, they are processed one at a time. However, if the served code needs to query the database, for example, it sends the call to a queue and the main request continues; it does not wait for a response. Only when the database operation is completed with a response the corresponding call from the queue is processed.

Node.js is therefore often used to build server services that communicate with client-side applications. Such services are called API. A web app and an underlying mobile app can use the same API to store data, send emails, push notifications, or initiate workflows on the server.

Due to its asynchronous nature, Node.js is also very well suited for processing real-time data streaming. It can be used to stream media, distribute files, or for Websockets servers.

By the way, because it’s fast and lean, Node.js can also be used quite nicely to build a microservices infrastructure.

At Netformic, we have been implementing solutions based on this versatile technology for a long time, providing customers from various industries with flexibly scalable, future-oriented applications based on Node.js.

AWS Cloud Computing provides IT resources over the Internet. Amazon Web Services (AWS) can be used to access technologies such as storage, databases, and computing services as needed. The advantage is that you don’t have to buy or rent your own cost-intensive servers. Costs are only incurred for the IT resources actually used.

In addition, a customer project eliminates the time-consuming process of determining which IT resources to use because AWS provides the ability to add or reduce IT resources to the project at any time, based on requirements. This reduces costs immensely, as there is no need to continuously operate high-performance servers that are not in use.

The AWS Cloud offers a wide range of technologies that can be used to implement most use cases. These technology services can be provided immediately, which reduces the development time of a customer project many times over.

For international customers, AWS offers the ability for the application to be rolled out globally. This means that the application is physically installed in different locations around the world. This can also be configured from the AWS Console in minutes.

Security is a top priority at AWS. All data in the cloud is transmitted encrypted and stored encrypted on data carriers. Only the owner can access the data. Furthermore, fine-grained identification and access controls can be set up on the resources and combined with continuous monitoring.

Another key point for using AWS Cloud Computing is that the service is very fail-safe. AWS advertises service availability of at least 99.999 %. No extra fees will be charged for this service.

AWS cloud computing is ideal for customer projects because a developed application can be adapted to new requirements at any time.

For example, if a web application is struggling with increasing load, resources can be quickly scaled up. With the help of autoscaling, this can also be done fully automatically. Threshold values are defined for this purpose, which automatically start up and provide new instances when exceeded. If the value falls below the threshold value again, the instances that are no longer required are also shut down.

Another advantage to developing an application in AWS is that you can start deploying immediately. There is no need for long lead times for the installation of development systems.

Developers can access AWS resources from anywhere, so there is no local restriction. Teams can thus work together on a project from different locations.

Vue.js is an advanced javascript framework for building websites and web applications.

Unlike other monolithic frameworks, Vue.js is designed from the ground up to be adopted and deployed incrementally.

The core library focuses only on the view layer and is very easy to pick up and integrate with other libraries or existing projects. On the other hand, Vue.js is also perfectly capable of running sophisticated single page applications (SPA) when used in combination with modern tools and supporting libraries.

Vue.js is built on single file components. The concept of Single File Components is to connect and at the same time encapsulate markup, style and logic (HTML, CSS and JS).

At the same time, the structure of the components serves the “Single Responsibility” and the “Open/Closed” principle of SOLID.

The progressive framework, currently in version 3, is now well established and is used in many applications of varying size and complexity. Advantageous is the small core which leads to a small JS size.

Laravel is a powerful PHP framework initiated by Taylor Otwell in 2011 and has been under constant development ever since. It was originally developed as a better alternative to Codeigniter. Over the years, due to its simplicity and flexibility, a huge community has developed that is constantly adding new enhancements and improvements to the system.

The framework follows the MVC pattern and comes with a lot of already integrated and important features.

Eloquent as ORM, Blade as templating engine, Sanctum as authentication system for SPA and many others, provide a solid foundation for web projects of all kinds.

Many reasons speak for Laravel:

• Simplicity

From the ground up, Laravel is cleanly built and offers a variety of extensions. Thus, the initialization effort is manageable.

• Flexibility

API for SPA, web application, e-commerce are only a selection of the possible fields of application of such a flexible framework.

• Authentication / Security

CORS, CSFR, authentication systems are built into Laravel by default. This ensures the highest possible security for each web application.

• Performance

The built-in caching system and various services like Redis, Memcache, etc. add extra speed to any Laravel web application.

• Test

Functions, routes, database actions. All aspects of a Laravel application are 100% testable.