Every php company knows how important it is to have a perfect environment for php developers. The php world has changed so much over the last decade and many of these changes can be attributed to how php companies are working with their php developers. In this blog post, we will discuss what steps php companies should take in order to provide a perfect environment for php developers and we'll also talk about some of the challenges that they may face during this process.
Every php companies knows that the php world is constantly changing. Over the last decade, we've seen many significant changes in how php companies work with their developers and this has brought about a lot of change to php as well. For example, over the past few years we have witnessed an increase in PHP frameworks like Laravel and Symfony which provide much more flexibility and functionality than php did back then. These days every php company understands what it means to be agile; things need to move faster! Another trend that can be attributed to these changes is how they now make use of Agile methodologies such as Scrum for managing projects rather than Waterfall (which was popular during php's early years). Nowadays there are so many new technologies being introduced and therefore php companies have to be able to adapt quickly so php developers are now being asked to work on new technologies very early in the project.
Now that we've discussed some of the changes, let's talk about what php companies can do in order to provide a perfect environment for their php developers. First and foremost they need an infrastructure which is optimized for PHP apps; this means having servers with lots of RAM (at least 16 GB) as well as solid state disks or at least hard disk drives that support SATA III interface. They also need the latest version of php installed along with all its dependencies. Some other tools include APC, Memcache, Redis etc... These days most php companies make use of an application delivery controller like NGIN
