Symfony2 is awesome, but can be overkill for some applications. During this talk, you will hear about a use case for using the Silex microframework for web and the Cilex microframework for CLI, and how these frameworks combined became the glue to the components of the media transcoding application that powers the majority of on-demand adaptive streaming for the Dutch public broadcasting organization NPO.

 

http://youtu.be/EszN0csiv10?list=PLmmVKoOOmweMrNQzziuGLP4ay9nrw8mQQ