Symfony Development Company for Enterprise PHP
The framework used by Drupal, Magento, and Laravel itself in its components. When you need a real hexagonal architecture and explicit code.
- 20+ Years of Maturity
- LTS 4 Years Support
- 01 · Requirements What the business needs
- 02 · Architecture Documented decisions
- 03 · Code Reviewed and tested
- 04 · Deployment Automated and reversible
- 05 · Performance Core Web Vitals in the green
- 06 · Evolution Your team asks, we deliver
- Every metric sets the next iteration
Definition
Why Symfony Over Laravel?
Laravel is productive for MVPs and medium apps. Symfony is for when you need real DDD architecture, bounded contexts, CQRS, and a codebase that 10 developers can maintain without stepping on each other. Symfony is explicit where Laravel is magic.
Why
APIs, DDD, Hexagonal Architecture
Symfony for enterprise projects that scale
Symfony is not "hard Laravel". It's explicit architecture. Native Dependency Injection, Event Dispatcher for CQRS, Messenger for async processing. Doctrine ORM with Unit of Work pattern. Flex for dependency management without bloat. Reusable components you can extract to microservices.
- ✓ API Platform
- ORM Doctrine
- >80% Tests
In numbers
Project Guarantees
- 4 Years Guaranteed LTS
- >80% Test Coverage
- PHPStan 9 Static Analysis
- 0 Technical Debt
Deliverables
What We Deliver
Every Symfony project includes:
- Documented hexagonal/DDD architecture
- API Platform or custom endpoints
- Doctrine ORM with migrations
- Unit + functional tests (>80%)
- PHPStan level 9 + Rector
- CI/CD pipeline configured
- OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
- Deployment on EU servers (GDPR)
Summary
For Decision Makers
Symfony is the PHP framework with the greatest long-term stability. 4-year LTS vs Laravel's 2.
Used by BlaBlaCar, Spotify (PHP backend), Trivago. Scales to millions of users.
Architecture that allows large teams to work in parallel without merge conflicts.
For the CTO
For CTOs
Native Dependency Injection with autowiring. Compiled service container for maximum performance.
Doctrine ORM with Unit of Work, Identity Map, automatic migrations. Type-safe QueryBuilder.
Messenger for async processing (RabbitMQ, Redis). Event Dispatcher for CQRS without external libraries.
What's included
Enterprise Stack
- Symfony 7
- API Platform
- Doctrine ORM
- Messenger
- PHPStan + Rector
- Docker + K8s
Who it is for
Is It For You?
Who it's for
- Enterprise projects with DDD/hexagonal architecture requirements
- Teams of 5+ developers who need to work in parallel
- Systems with complex business logic and bounded contexts
- APIs requiring versioning and backward compatibility
- Organizations needing 4+ year LTS
Who it's not for
- MVPs that need speed over architecture
- Small projects where Laravel is sufficient
- Teams without enterprise pattern experience
- If you prefer convention over configuration
Risks and how we cover them
Risk Reduction
How we work
Methodology
- 01
Domain Modeling
Bounded contexts, aggregates, domain events.
- 02
Architecture
Application, Domain, Infrastructure layers. Ports & Adapters.
- 03
Implementation
TDD with PHPUnit. PHPStan level 9 from day 1.
- 04
Production
CI/CD, monitoring, operations documentation.
Use cases
Use Cases
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Enterprise APIs
Versioning, backward compatibility, multiple consumers.
Scalable architecture
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DDD/CQRS
Bounded contexts, event sourcing, sagas.
Controlled complexity
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Microservices
Symfony components extractable to independent services.
Gradual evolution
The proof
PHP Enterprise Credentials
Senior PHP team since 2009, working with Symfony since version 2. DDD and hexagonal architectures for enterprise APIs and B2B platforms with complex business logic.
- 15+ Years of Symfony Experience
- 80+ Test Coverage
Technologies
Technologies
- Symfony 7
- PHP 8.4
- API Platform
- Doctrine ORM
- Messenger
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- PHPStan
- Rector
- PHPUnit
- Docker
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Symfony or Laravel?
Laravel for MVPs and quick productivity. Symfony when you need real DDD architecture, large teams, and 4-year LTS. We choose based on your team and requirements.
Is Symfony slower than Laravel?
No. The compiled container and OPcache JIT make Symfony equal or faster. The "slowness" is a myth from old versions.
What is API Platform?
Framework on top of Symfony to create automatic REST/GraphQL APIs with OpenAPI, pagination, filters, and configurable serialization.
Doctrine vs Eloquent?
Doctrine uses Unit of Work pattern: changes persist at the end. More control, better for complex domain logic.
How do you handle CQRS?
Native Messenger component. Commands for writing, Queries for reading. Event Dispatcher for projections.
How do you ensure code quality?
Unit and functional tests with PHPUnit (>80% coverage), PHPStan level 9 and CI/CD on every commit. For end-to-end testing we offer QA automation.
Does it include training for my team?
Yes. DDD architecture workshops, pair programming, architectural decision documentation (ADRs).
Hosting included?
We configure on AWS, GCP, or VPS. Platform.sh or Symfony Cloud optional. EU servers for GDPR.
Post-launch support?
Maintenance contracts with SLA. Security updates, version upgrades, architectural support.
Next step
Architecture That Doesn't Scale?
PHP code audit. We identify technical debt and propose gradual migration to Symfony.
- No commitment
- Response in 24h
- Custom proposal
Let's talk.
Initial technical consultation
AI, security and performance. Diagnosis with phased proposal.
- NDA available
- Response <24h
- Phased proposal
Your first meeting is with a Solutions Architect, not a salesperson.
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