Hands-on workshops and coaching from a SensioLabs Partner and Symfony Certified Developer. Your engineers learn modern Symfony, testing, and architecture on real code, and keep the skills long after the training ends.
SensioLabs is the company behind Symfony. Devtide is a SensioLabs Partner, and we deliver Symfony projects and team coaching alongside SensioLabs for clients across Europe.
Training is led by a Symfony Certified Developer who ships production Symfony every week. Your team learns the conventions the framework is designed around from people who apply them under real load, not from slides written years ago.
Every engagement is shaped around your team's level and your codebase. Pick one format or combine them into a programme.
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In-house workshops
Focused, hands-on workshops for your team, on-site at your office in the EU or live remote. Exercises run against a realistic Symfony project, or against your own codebase where possible.
Agenda tailored after a short skills assessment
Exercises in every session, not slide decks
On-site within the EU or live remote
Materials and example code your team keeps
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Coaching on your codebase
Training while shipping. We pair with your engineers on real tickets, review pull requests, and teach patterns where they are needed, so new skills land in production instead of a notebook.
Pair programming on your actual backlog
Pull request reviews with the reasoning explained
Architecture decisions recorded as the team makes them
A cadence that fits your sprints
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Symfony Certification preparation
Structured preparation for the official Symfony Certification exam, led by a Symfony Certified Developer. We cover the exam topics, close the gaps your engineers actually have, and practise under exam conditions.
Coverage of the official exam topics
A gap analysis for each participant
Practice with exam-style questions
The PHP and HTTP fundamentals the exam expects
Curriculum
What we teach
Topics are modular. We combine them into a programme that matches where your team is today and where your codebase needs to go.
Symfony fundamentals
Routing, controllers, Twig, forms, and the request lifecycle, explained from the HttpKernel up so the framework stops feeling like magic.
Advanced Symfony
The service container, autowiring, events, Messenger, Security voters, and caching, the parts that decide whether an application stays maintainable as it grows.
Doctrine ORM
Entity mapping, value objects and custom types, migrations, query performance, and the N+1 problems that hide in every growing application.
Testing strategy
Unit, integration, and functional tests with PHPUnit and Foundry, a test suite your team actually maintains, and how to safely test code you did not write.
API Platform
Resource design, state providers and processors, serialisation, filters, security, and versioning for APIs that frontend, mobile, and partner teams can rely on.
Modern PHP and code quality
PHP 8 features, strict typing, PHPStan at high levels, Rector for automated refactoring, and coding standards enforced in CI.
Clean architecture and DDD
Bounded contexts, aggregates, value objects, and clear boundaries, applied pragmatically inside a Symfony application rather than as theory.
Symfony upgrades
Deprecation handling, Rector rules, and a repeatable process for moving between Symfony major versions without freezing feature work.
AI in Symfony applications
Adding AI features to an existing Symfony app with retrieval, MCP servers, evaluation, and the security boundaries that make them safe to ship.
Oskar Stark
General Manager, SensioLabs Germany
Devtide is the partner we call when a Symfony project needs senior depth from day one. They ship work we are happy to put our name behind, and that is why we keep coming back.
How it works
From skills assessment to lasting habits
A training is only worth it if the practices survive the next deadline. That is what the process is built around.
01
Assess
A short call and a skills assessment to understand your team, your codebase, and what is slowing you down.
02
Plan
A tailored curriculum and format proposal with clear learning goals, agreed before any session is booked.
03
Train
Hands-on sessions, on-site or remote, built around exercises and, where possible, your own code.
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Follow up
Optional code reviews and follow-up sessions after the training, so new practices stick in day-to-day work.
FAQ
Training questions
What engineering leaders usually ask before booking a training.
01Is Devtide a SensioLabs Partner?
Yes. Devtide is a SensioLabs Partner. SensioLabs is the company behind Symfony, and we work alongside SensioLabs on client projects and team coaching across Europe. Our training is led by a Symfony Certified Developer.
02Can the training be tailored to our codebase?
Yes, and we recommend it. After a skills assessment we build the exercises around your domain and, where your security policies allow it, your own repository. Teams retain far more when the examples look like their real work.
03Do you train on-site or remote?
Both. We run live remote sessions for distributed teams and travel to client offices within the EU for on-site workshops. Many teams combine an on-site kick-off with remote coaching afterwards.
04Who is the training for?
Developers new to Symfony, experienced PHP engineers moving to modern Symfony, and senior teams that want to go deeper into architecture, testing, or API Platform. We group content by level so nobody sits through what they already know. Training is available in English and German.
05Do you prepare developers for the Symfony Certification?
Yes. We run structured preparation for the official Symfony Certification exam, led by a Symfony Certified Developer. The exam itself is taken through SensioLabs, and we make sure your engineers arrive prepared.
06What does a Symfony training cost?
It depends on the format, the number of days, the group size, and whether it runs on-site or remote. Tell us about your team through the contact form and we send a tailored proposal.
Get started
Ready to level up your Symfony team?
Tell us about your team, your codebase, and what you want to improve. We reply with a proposed format and curriculum.
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Oskar Stark General Manager, SensioLabs Germany