Julian Somesan

Julian started writing software in 2005, going from Visual Basic to PHP.
He is a Zend Certified Engineer, member of the Technical Steering Committee at Laminas Project and Dotkernel, and currently he is the CTO at Apidemia.
He enjoys spending time with his four shepherd dogs.

twitter: @@juliansomesan

Articles

Middleware Dominates MVC

By Julian Somesan

In this article, we intend to prove that the event-driven, heavyweight, controller/action-centric MVC is outmatched by the pipeline-driven, lightweight, handler-centric middleware. by Julian Somesan

Published in PHP Secrets, September 2025