Almost at the same time, I silently celebrate the first birthday of my blog. My first article appeared a little over a year ago. It is great to see how Symfony2 has become more and more popular during these twelve months. Your comments and visits encourage me to keep posting articles. So, thank you all! And thanks, Dennis, for contributing.

GridFS is a specification for storing large files in MongoDB. In this post I will explain how you can easily upload a file to GridFS and then retrieve it from the database to serve it to the browser.