Symfony is a set of PHP Components, a Web Application framework, a Philosophy, and a Community — all working together in harmony A framework is a collection of universal, reusable programs that accomplish particular tasks to facilitate the development of software applications. A framework is a pledge of quality, upgradability and maintainability of applications at lower cost. Applications developed using a framework are interoperable with market standards.

Symfony provides a relatively small piece of the puzzle. Its biggest contribution: the gapi services (and other remote APIs) are configured with server-to-server service account access. Sym3 provides an endpoint that returns a svc acct access token that's - in turn - used by Ng2 to authorize the remote services.

Microsoft has done an incredible job of keeping the .NET Framework powerful and stable. It is well designed and keeps getting more robust with each release. It isn't the most popular technology in this space, but I think a good case can be made to use .NET in many new projects.

As we started on Windows Phone we use C# and .NET for most of our apps and sites. Being a small team of 2, using .NET enables us to work on each part of the service without having to switch to different languages.

I use .NET alongside with C# since my university studies, and I really enjoy it. Especially .NET Core, which is the best thing that happened to Microsoft since... ever.

Server side development language and frameworks: ASP.Net MVC 4, Asp.Net WebApi 2, Razor View engine, Moq, Entity Frameworks, etc.

We developed our ERP with Symfony, then we use this framework and its components in e-commerce customization.

The RESTful backend for Hilenium was built using the Symfony2 framework.

Solid components backed by a great community and visionary company (sensio labs).