Symfony supports Doctrine ORM integration with many databases including MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
Heroku, AWS, DigitalOcean and other PaaS options are common.
MVC is core but can adapt to other like hexagonal architecture. Design Patterns like Dependency Injection are core concepts.
Most popular IDEs are PHPStorm, Visual Studio Code with Symfony Plugin. Development servers like built-in server, Nginx.
Unit testing with PHPUnit, functional testing via PHPSpec. Integration testing with Panther.
