Articles from Maxime Thoonsen
Leverage Generative AI in your PHP E-Commerce website with Qdrant and LLPhant
Maxime Thoonsen5 min read
There are many use cases of Generative AI: e-commerce search, customer support and sales optimization, law case search... To help e-commerce and other use cases written in PHP, I'm happy..I'm happy to announce the addition of Qdrant as a vectorStore in…
Continue reading →Manage your technical debt roadmap right from your code 🚀
Maxime Thoonsen14 min read
Exec summary:Technical debt leads to bugs creation: the number of bugs and the number of design flaws (technical debt) are 0.92 correlated in a study from the Software Engineering Institute Static analysis tools like SonarQube are massively used (100k+ users) to chase…
Continue reading →Software-based CPU power consumption using PowerApi
Maxime Thoonsen6 min read
The ICT sectors carbon footprint represents now around 4% of the global CO2 emissions. To minimize that, one of our goals at Theodo is to design sustainable web applications with minimal carbon footprint. And in order to know how performant…
Continue reading →Typescript: use the nullish coalescing operator to prevent bugs
Maxime Thoonsen2 min read
My goal as a CTO is to improve quality. The score of this game is the number of bugs we find each week. Today I share with you a typical bug that more than one person got caught by. Let's say…
Continue reading →Security best practices tool for VMs including docker's host
Maxime Thoonsen1 min read
TL;DR: try this security tool it's awesome. I was looking for best practices to secure docker applications. One of those best pratices is to make sure the host is secured and well configured. The main advice was to read the best pratices from the Center…
Continue reading →Deploy your Symfony application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using CloudFormation
Maxime Thoonsen4 min read
I decided to follow an advice shared on twitter via the The Practical Dev: the best way to learn AWS is to start using it. The problem I was looking for a way to quickly create a Minimum Viable Stack on AWS…
Continue reading →Theodo React Summer School - Mise en place de Redux
Maxime Thoonsen1 min read
Bonjour à tous, Nous organisons tout l'été des cours sur React au sein de Theodo. Cette 3ème session aura lieu le mercredi 2/08/2017 à 19h dans nos locaux près du métro Rome. Nous l'ouvrons aux personnes extérieures qui souhaitent apprendre à…
Continue reading →Symfony, Ansible and your staging server set up in one hour
Maxime Thoonsen2 min read
[Edit]: I'm writting a book about Ansible, click here if want a free draft.When you start a new project and you create the Ansible provisioning for it, you will do those tasks:Find the right role on Ansible Galaxy and check…
Continue reading →How to run your Symfony application on Ubuntu Xenial
Maxime Thoonsen2 min read
This article explains the differences I found between Trusty and Xenial to run a Symfony application. So what's new in the latest Ubuntu LTS release? On the application side we have:PHP 7.0 Nginx 1.9.15 Python 3.5 Postgresql 9.5 Mysql 5.7.11 Mongo 2.6.10 Docker 1.10From Trusty to Xenial My…
Continue reading →Microservices - Solve your Redis fixtures problem
Maxime Thoonsen3 min read
Redis is a fantastic tool to handle data in an amazingly simple and rapid manner. If you're not using it yet, here's a way you can manage redis fixtures in your projects. Redis and microservices In our current web project, we use…
Continue reading →Best practices to build great Ansible playbooks
Maxime Thoonsen12 min read
I have been building playbooks for two years and I always try to make them understandable. However, one of our playbooks in a big project became very complex and is now very hard to understand and to maintain. I didn't…
Continue reading →Protect your Node.js API with nginx and SSL client certificates
Maxime Thoonsen4 min read
The problem we had We had to secure some routes of our Node.js API so only trusted servers could call them. There are other solutions to do so, but for this project, we had to do it using SSL client certificates. We…
Continue reading →Create a custom world map with D3.js
Maxime Thoonsen2 min read
A new blog post on D3.js! Last time Jean-Rémi made this very nice article on the force layout. This time will we show you how we drew this worldmap of where the Theodoers have traveled. We started from this techslides demo…
Continue reading →Create and publish an npm package
Maxime Thoonsen4 min read
I just made an npm package: gulp-backpack and it was pretty easy to publish it to npm! Therefore, I wanted to share what you need to know so you can do it too. Create your package Obviously before publishing anything you'll need…
Continue reading →Méthode BRIGHTNESS : pour que vos talks restent dans les mémoires
Maxime Thoonsen7 min read
Il y a quelques mois, je suis tombé par hasard sur une vidéo du site ted.com et j'ai tout de suite accroché. Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, les conférences TED sont une suite de talks d'une dizaine de minutes…
Continue reading →Conférence sécurité GTLL du vendredi 12 décembre 2014
Maxime Thoonsen7 min read
This blog post is in French as the event it relates to is French-only. Theodo a rejoint le GTLL (Groupe de Travail Logiciel Libre de Systematic) il y a quelques mois.Ce pôle de compétitivité rassemble académiques et industriels autour de thématiques…
Continue reading →Choose a specific MongoDb version in Travis
Maxime Thoonsen1 min read
I just had a little problem with my tests on Travis due to a wrong MongoDb version. Travis uses the 2.4.12 version of MongoDb and I needed the 2.6.6 version. The official documentation of travis doesn't provide a way to…
Continue reading →Ansible and Vagrant stack for Symfony2 projects
Maxime Thoonsen1 min read
I made a talk at one London Symfony2 meetup about how you can easily build up a nice DevOps environment with Vagrant and Ansible. The slides and the video are available. Feedback is very much appreciated. As we work more and…
Continue reading →Linux and Mac: fix your bash vulnerability
Maxime Thoonsen1 min read
Today a major security vulnerability has been found in GNU Bash. Bash is used by almost every Linux AND Unix systems.Ubuntu and Mac OS are examples of OS using it. It's highly advised to update your OS.If you want to…
Continue reading →First Ansible's London Meetup
Maxime Thoonsen2 min read
I attented the first London ansible meetup and I wanted to share the few things I've learnt over there. TL;DR: Ansible is S-I-M-P-L-E that's why you should try using it. Ansible VS Puppet One of the talk was about how to move from…
Continue reading →Learn the basics of nginx
Maxime Thoonsen6 min read
The purpose of this article is to explain the basic things you'll need when you start using nginx. I will assume that we are on a ubuntu Trusty(14.04) OS, I let the readers translate the command for their own OS. Why…
Continue reading →SIMPLE ANSIBLE PROVISIONING FOR SYMFONY2 WITH POSTGRESQL
Maxime Thoonsen4 min read
Ansible is a IT automation tool very popular on GitHub. It's written in Python and has been designed to be simple to use. This article explains how we have created an Ansible provisioning for a Symfony2 project working with a Postgresql…
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