Paweł Holik, PHP/Symfony Tech Lead
Paweł Holik
PHP / Symfony Tech Lead
20+ years building backend systems and ecommerce platforms with Symfony, Sylius, Drupal and Mautic. Based in Toruń.
As a Tech Lead at Droptica, I focus on architecture and backend solutions.
Here I write about PHP, Symfony, Docker, Linux and my home lab.
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tutorials • Jul 31, 2026
This is part 8 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 7 covered building a production theme. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. Search on a static site. No Elasticsearch. No Algolia. No PHP s…
tutorials • Jul 24, 2026
This is part 7 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 6 covered the build pipeline. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. Part 4 explained how the local/ override pattern works in principle — Tw…
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tutorials • Jul 17, 2026
This is part 6 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 5 covered the open-source release checklist. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. The command ddev build produces a complete static site in…
tutorials • Jul 10, 2026
This is part 5 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 4 covers the local override pattern. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. I spent a month preparing my personal website's codebase for open…
tutorials • Jul 03, 2026
This is part 4 of a series on preparing notACMS for open-source release. Part 3 covers security vulnerabilities. The original WordPress to Symfony series covers the migration itself. You want to share a Symfony project template. Every user needs to c…
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