Integrate your Symfony application with your Cloud Infrastructure using the Symfony Messenger

More and more companies move to IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and move their application to use managed cloud services. There are different techniques to enable services to communicate in the cloud. One of them is message queues.
I will show you through examples how you can use the Symfony Messenger to integrate your Symfony application with message queues, and to interact with cloud services.

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1. Integrate your Symfony application with your Cloud Infrastructure using the Symfony Messenger Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 1
2. About me ! • French engineering student • Technical manager @ Junior ISEP • Intern Full Stack Software engineer @ Birdie • Passionate about web, mobile and more! Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 2
3. The challenge • PHP is a synchronous language • It's difficult to execute things outside of a request / response context • Slow running processes directly affect user experience Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 3
4. The challenge • Call to a 3rd party API • Big processing after a user interaction • Sending an email or an SMS • ... Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 4
5. Quick example Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 5
6. A solution: Asynchronous operations Aka postponing ("I'll just do it later ") Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 6
7. Quick questions • Who has worked with IaaS before? (AWS, GCP, Azure, Heroku, ...) • Who has heard of the Symfony Messenger? • Who has worked with the Symfony Messenger? (side project or production) Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 7
8. Recap on the Symfony Messenger Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 8
9. It's (small) demo time! Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 9
10. Recap • Receive an API call • Send an message through the Symfony Messenger to RabbitMQ • Respond now to the client • Handle the message later (either with the console or with another service) Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 10
11. The benefits • Separate the work between different components / services of your application • Multiple languages in your project • Asynchronous operations for heavy duty (or long-running processes) Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 11
12. Thanks! Questions? Symfony Xmas Meetup - December 2018 12