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Have you ever wondered how to go from a completely blank machine to a fully functional, production-ready PHP application? Maybe you inherited an empty VPS, or your team wants to spin up a greenfield service without spending weeks assembling tooling. In this article, I'll walk you through the entire ByJG PHP ecosystem—a comprehensive set of tools and components that work together seamlessly to help you build modern PHP applications with confidence.

Whether you're working with Laravel, Symfony, or building from scratch, these components can help you accelerate development while maintaining production-grade quality. Think of it as a curated pit crew: each utility is lightweight on its own, yet designed to snap together when you need the whole pipeline.

What We'll Cover​

• Standing up a workstation on a blank Linux machine (or WSL) in minutes
• Understanding the PHP component catalog and when to reach for each piece
• Using the PHP REST Reference Architecture to bootstrap an API
• Selecting hardened Docker images for production workloads
• Operating a realistic workflow from day zero to ongoing maintenance

Maintaining more than 30 open source projects is a bit like conducting an orchestra alone.
Each project has its own particularities, dependencies, pipelines, documentation, and tests — and yet all of them need to work in harmony.

In a company with 30 microservices, it’s common to have something like 2 to 4 DevOps, 3 to 5 Product Owners, and 50 to 100 developers.
I do this mostly by myself.

It sounds impossible, but it isn’t.
Let’s walk through how this ecosystem works — and how automation, standardization, and good use of Artificial Intelligence make it not only viable, but actually enjoyable.