I was tasked with an issue to build a component that would require several filters all displayed in a grid. After I had finished that, there were several design changes that the product owner wanted to see, to make the select boxes much more usable for the end-user.

In the [previous blog post]({% post_url 2015-01-21-divide-and-conquer-part-1 %}) we shared how we implemented the first part of our problem in Drupal and how we decided that splitting our project into discrete parts was a good idea. I'll pick up where we left off and discuss why and how we used Symfony to build our web service instead of implementing it in Drupal.

It isn't just about Drupal here at ActiveLAMP -- when the right project comes along that diverges from the usual demands of content management, we get to use other cool technologies to satisfy more exotic requirements.