Five Years of Beta

Presented July 23, 2016 at Symfony Catalunya: https://joind.in/talk/081df

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1. Five Years of Beta
   Jeremy Mikola
   @jmikola
   

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2. A little about myself
   

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3. Some time ago, I talked about this…
   

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4. tl;dr
   

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5. This is a story about Doctrine MongoDB ODM
   

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6. From the other side
   

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7. ● Object Relational Mapper (ORM)
   ● Database Abstraction Layer (DBAL)
   ● Object Document Mappers (ODMs)
   ○ MongoDB
   ○ PHPCR
   ○ CouchDB
   ○ OrientDB
   ● MongoDB Abstraction Layer
   ● Common
   ○ Annotations
   ○ Collections
   ○ Lexer
   ● Cache
   ● Migrations
   ● Framework integrations
   ○ Symfony bridge and bundles
   ○ Zend Framework modules
   What (and who) is Doctrine?
   

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8. What is MongoDB?
   ● Open-source document database
   ○ Replication and sharding
   ○ Web scale™
   ● Cloud services
   ○ Monitoring and backup
   ○ Operations management
   ○ Database as a Service (DBaaS)
   ● Integrations
   ○ Hadoop
   ○ Spark
   ○ BI Connector (SQL)
   ● Drivers
   ○ PHP, HHVM, and many other
   languages
   

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9. Let’s go back in time…
   

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11. Who was using Symfony back then?
    

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12. OpenSky faced an architectural challenge
    ● Encountered difficulty scaling Magento
    ○ Multi-tenant deployment with hundreds of stores
    ● Realized the need for a bespoke application
    ○ Move Magento behind a service layer during transition
    ○ Slowly migrate away from its EAV database model
    ● Considered the very latest technologies
    ○ PHP 5.3
    ○ Lithium
    ○ Symfony 2
    ○ Zend Framework 2
    ○ MongoDB
    

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13. Symfony Live Paris 2011
    

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14. Symfony Live Paris 2011
    

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15. Long before Composer
    

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16. install_vendors.sh
    

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17. update_vendors.sh
    

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18. Active Record
    

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19. Data Mapper
    

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21. These guys had an idea
    

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22. Why don’t we create an ODM for MongoDB?
    ● Port essential ORM functionality
    ○ Class metadata
    ○ Unit of work
    ○ Lifecycle events
    ○ Persistence
    ○ Repositories
    ● Limit the feature scope
    ○ Database abstraction layer
    ○ Sharding support
    ○ Migrations
    ○ Caching
    

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24. 2010 – 2011
    

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25. 2012 – 2014
    

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26. 2015 – present
    

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27. Why did this take
    five years?
    

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28. Keeping up with the flow
    

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29. ● Maintaining compatibility
    ○ MongoDB server
    ○ Doctrine Common
    ○ Framework integrations
    ○ “Gedmo” Doctrine extensions
    ● Community support
    ○ Usage questions
    ○ Pull requests
    ○ Bug reports
    ● Security vulnerabilities
    Never-ending todo list
    

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32. Watch out for
    feature creep
    

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33. Ever-growing wish list
    ● Requested ORM features
    ○ Repository factories
    ○ Query filters
    ○ Criteria API
    ○ Result caching
    ● New ODM features
    ○ Sharding
    ○ Geo-spatial queries
    ○ Aggregation builder
    ● Refactoring
    ● PHP 7 support
    

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37. Waiting to merge pull requests
    

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38. Perfectionism vs.
    pragmatism
    

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39. Milestones should not have
    an open door policy
    

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41. Poppin’ tags
    

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43. Semantic versioning
    Major: BC breaks
    Minor: New features
    Patch: Bug fixes
    

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44. Semantic versioning
    Major: BC breaks
    Minor: New features
    Patch: Bug fixes
    Pre-release: Loophole!
    

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47. Find a balance
    

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48. Open-source can be
    a full-time job
    

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53. Becoming overwhelmed
    

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54. Abandoned projects
    

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55. How did I end up here?
    

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56. /ping @jwage
    /ping @jwage
    /ping @jwage
    ...
    

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59. If you look around and can’t
    find the leader of your local
    user group… guess what?
    You are it.
    ― Cal Evans
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60. Open-source should be
    a team effort
    

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61. ORM development over time
    

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68. Cultivate and encourage
    your volunteers
    

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69. Fast forward a few months...
    

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74. These guys closed the gap
    

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76. Where do we go
    from here?
    

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82. On the road to 2.0.0
    ● Remove deprecated or problematic APIs
    ○ YAML driver
    ○ requireIndexes
    ● Behavioral changes
    ○ Collection strategies
    ○ Embedded documents
    ● Internal refactoring
    ○ Change set calculation
    ○ Class metadata
    ● Direct PHP 7 support
    ○ Build upon the new MongoDB driver (ext-mongodb)
    

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83. 2015 – present
    

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84. See you in another five years…
    

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85. Photo Credits
    ● http://octodex.github.com
    ● http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/
    ● http://shirt.woot.com/offers/it-came-out-of-nowhere
    ● http://phicenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/stork_baby_delivery_720x540.jpg
    ● https://livingstills.tumblr.com/post/113724523047
    ● http://www.donatoart.com/portraits/cartographer.html
    ● http://logisticalfictions.tumblr.com/post/86099686495/before-a-later-film-revealed-its-boring-mundanity
    ● http://www.reinventioninc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/iStock_000008468780Small-e1380565027473.jpg
    ● http://giphy.com/gifs/thegoodfilms-cinemagraph-thegoodfilms-forrest-gump-JjLylCKqqQs5q
    ● http://giphy.com/gifs/cinemagraph-max-fury-xme2XN3AzQOEU
    ● http://dream-recover-live.blogspot.com.es/2013/05/just-keep-swimming.html
    ● http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1729387/images/o-SHARK-ATTACK-facebook.jpg
    ● https://twitter.com/kizmarh/status/553141889541877760
    ● http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/properties/lester/art_images/cg56ea24513d0c7.jpg
    ● http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1067/0834/products/velvet_rope_dude_1024x1024.jpg
    ● https://speaktoall.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/macklemore-thrift-shop-artwork.jpg
    ● http://tkirda.github.io/slides-modern-web-tools/resources/images/semver.png
    ● http://static.neatorama.com/images/2014-04/The-Legend-of-Hodor-l.jpg
    ● https://angeliquepanagos.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/balance.jpg
    ● http://latestcalendar.weebly.com/uploads/4/2/7/1/42714133/8676421_orig.jpg
    

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