Raphael Fleischmann Vienna, Austria

Raphael is an experienced software architect living in Vienna. He studied software engineering and business administration in Austria and Sweden and has worked with many clients throughout his career.

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Deploying Symfony on Railway

By Raphael Fleischmann

I'm sure you've heard about Symfony, the PHP web framework. But have you also heard about Railway? Railway is a cloud hosting provider that's a little different. First of all, it's super simple – comparable to Heroku or Vercel – and also you don't pay for provisioned resources but for used resources. That means if you deploy a container with 8 GB...

The disappearing customer: How unstable sorting breaks pagination

I have recently discovered a strange issue where a record in my database mysteriously disappears from a paginated API endpoint. And in fact, this is an issue that could happen to you as well, if your sorting is unstable. But let’s start from the beginning. The Starting Point In my application, I have an endpoint that returns all customers, sorted by customer group. So each customer is assigned to...

Your First Moves in Enterprise Architecture – A Strategic Guide to Getting Started

This guide will help you take the first steps successfully. The beginning feels like hacking your way through a dense jungle of many applications, technologies, teams and processes. But with the right tools and a clear strategy, you can cut a path towards a future-proof business....

Green Light, Red Light: What is a Watermelon Project?

By Raphael Fleischmann

Have you heard about the term Watermelon Project? It describes something that occurs in many organizations dealing with project-based work. So let's get into it. In update meetings, weekly check-ins or steering committees, the current project status is often described by a traffic light indicator....