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Developing SaaS applications<\/strong> in the enterprise environment requires high standards to provide customers with the performance and security they need to trust their data and processing to a cloud platform.<\/p>\n

In Retain Technologies we develop a continuous R&D policy<\/strong> to apply the latest technologies in application development to our cloud asset management platform, Retain EAM<\/a>. This policy allows us to develop faster and more secure applications<\/strong>, with greater efficiency and effectiveness, shortening the deployment times of new features and versions and with very high-quality levels. In addition, it is very important that our software can run on different platforms and devices,<\/strong> especially mobile ones, to provide greater mobility to the system users.<\/p>\n

In this post we will review some of the technologies we currently use and recommend for the development of SaaS applications. Logically the use of one or other technologies will depend on the characteristics of the project and the technological solution to be implemented.<\/p>\n

Docker<\/h2>\n

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Docker<\/a> is an open source tool that allows you to create and use lightweight, portable containers<\/strong> to run applications on any machine with a Docker installed. These containers can be used as very light and modular virtual machines, since each container includes only the minimum services to perform its function independently.<\/strong> Docker provides flexibility<\/strong> to create, deploy, copy and move them from one computer to another or from one environment to another.<\/p>\n

Docker allows us to generate development environments identical to those of production, so that the whole team works on the same development environment, regardless of the OS in which each one usually works. In this way we avoid the dreaded “but if it worked on my computer” moments.<\/p>\n

For example, in the case of developing or maintaining an application in Symfony, we can create a identical container with PHP, MySQL, Apache \/ Nginx and Mongo to the production server where our application will finally be hosted.<\/p>\n

It therefore allows both test and production deployments to be carried out much more easily and efficiently.<\/p>\n

Symfony<\/h2>\n

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Symfony<\/a> is one of the most demanded open source PHP framework<\/strong> at this moment (together with Laravel) thanks to a huge community behind it that feeds it with improvements and updates regularly.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It can be adapted for most projects, although it is intended for large web applications. Its main advantage is that it generates code that is very easy to read, understand, extend and maintain.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Symfony brings us, among other advantages:<\/p>\n