In this episode, Scott talks with Jamison Bryant about what sets CakePHP apart from Laravel and Symfony, the plugin ecosystem, and how he moved TicketSauce from CakePHP 2 to 5 with the strangler fig pattern.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• CakePHP – https://cakephp.org/
• CakePHP on GitHub – https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp
• Bake console – https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/bake.html
• CakePHP plugins directory – https://plugins.cakephp.org/
• Awesome CakePHP – https://github.com/FriendsOfCake/awesome-cakephp
• SwaggerBake plugin – https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-swagger-bake
• CakePHP Preloader (OPcache) – https://github.com/cnizzardini/cakephp-preloader
• CakePHP Authentication – https://github.com/cakephp/authentication
• CakePHP Authorization – https://github.com/cakephp/authorization
• CakePHP app template – https://github.com/cakephp/app
• Strangler Fig Application by Martin Fowler – https://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerFigApplication.html
• CakePHP 5.0 migration guide – https://book.cakephp.org/5/en/appendices/5-0-migration-guide.html
• CakePHP upgrade tool – https://github.com/cakephp/upgrade
• Rector – https://getrector.org/
• Cake Software Foundation – https://cakefoundation.org/
• CakeDC – https://www.cakedc.com/
• Passbolt – https://www.passbolt.com/
• TicketSauce – https://www.ticketsauce.com/
• XKCD Dependency – https://xkcd.com/2347/
• Longhorn PHP – https://www.longhornphp.com/
• php[tek] – https://phptek.io/
• I Built a CakePHP Plugin From My iPhone While Packing for a Trip – https://www.phparch.com/article/2026-08-i-built-a-cakephp-plugin-from-my-iphone-while-packing-for-a-trip/

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• LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamisonbryant/
• GitHub – https://github.com/jamisonbryant

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