The Bob Bloom Show
The Bob Bloom Show
Monthly commentary on PHP and serverless platforms.

All Episodes

#35 - Climbing the AI Coding Ladder

March 10, 2026 · 00:13:30

Anthropic decided that they had had enough of me for the week, and cut me off.Instead of availing myself of their entreaties to buy pay-as-you-go credits, I decided to take a break from my new custom application, for my PHP Serverless News podcas

#34 - Fueled By Passion: 15 For 29

January 1, 2026 · 00:14:55

Researching general podcasting, and the state of PHP podcasting, was a new, and eye-opening experience. My podcasts impart more inherent value to my potential Umbrella Sponsors than I assumed.

#33 - Bullish On PHP's Long Term Success

December 1, 2025 · 00:15:21

I am bullish on PHP. On its current state. On its long term success. There are substantive reasons underlying my bullishness. One reason is the four year old PHP Foundation, which is successfully fulfilling its mission to provide financial support an

#32 - Go Modules, The Net-http Package, Go Compilation

November 1, 2025 · 00:15:20

This is my third of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about Go's first-party net-http package, Go Modules, and Go's compilation.

#31 - Threads Within A Thread: Goroutines

October 15, 2025 · 00:14:38

This is my second of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. FrankenPHP relies on goroutines, an essential feature of Go. This episode is about goroutines.

#30 - High Level Hostility, Low Level Breakthrough

October 1, 2025 · 00:21:21

This is first of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about my resistance, and resentment, having to delve into The Low-Level Stuff. And, about ChatGPT power

#29 - Did AI Make My PHP Serverless Project Obsolete - Redux?

September 1, 2025 · 00:11:14

Seeing a video of an integrated AI code generation and deployment platform, triggered a panic attack that AI did indeed make my PHP Serverless Project obsolete. I had examined this last month, in my Update podcast this very question, and my conclusio

#28 - Threading The Process

August 1, 2025 · 00:21:00

Getting down to bedrock with the question: "what is a process?". An important ancillary question arises: "what is a thread?".

#27 - My Nova Upgrade Trashed My Custom App, And Significant Announcement About WordPress

July 1, 2025 · 00:26:50

Nova's use of Fortify did not play nicely with my custom Laravel authentication guard. My regularly scheduled life was held in abeyance for a couple of weeks while I sorted this out, refreshed my apps, and moved all my apps back to Forge from Cloudwa

#26 - Low Level PHP

June 1, 2025 · 00:17:06

I take a look at the min-trend of exploring PHP's low level roots, which are based on the language PHP is written in: C.

#25 - The Seven Things About Serverless That I Think

May 1, 2025 · 00:10:03

I have a rather unique viewpoint of serverless in general, and of PHP serverless in particular. A viewpoint that I express in my podcasts, and in my PHP Serverless Project. I have not yet explicitly expressed this viewpoint in one concise podcast, so

#24 - Sponsorship Update, And Journeying Into The Classics

November 1, 2024 · 00:21:37

I am thrilled, and frankly, somewhat relieved, that there is progress with my PHP Serverless Project sponsorship. This podcast show is part of this "umbrella" sponsorship. Also, my journey into PHP application servers has brought me to a classic Unix

#23 - Revisiting PHP-FPM, Visiting Laravel Funding

October 1, 2024 · 00:27:39

Lamenting the state of the content creation industry, when re-visiting PHP-FPM materials. Causing me to conclude that the materials I seek, I will have to create myself. And, finding myself worried that Laravel's new venture funding might affect its

#22 - Hitting The Wall. Variably Priced

September 1, 2024 · 00:16:13

A key aspect of serverless platforms is it variable pricing. Also, coming to the realization that my technical understanding of PHP application servers has hit a brick wall. To overcome, I need to do something different.

#21 - The Sponsored PHP Serverless Efforts That I Want To Do

June 1, 2024 · 00:39:38

Let's take a break from my journey into PHP application servers, to talk about the PHP serverless efforts that I am about to, finally, seek sponsorship for.

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Luke Galea is a veteran technology leader who began coding professionally during the dot-com boom. While Ruby, Elixir, and Erlang are his tools of choice, PHP has remained a constant thread throughout his two-decade career spanning healthcare, dating, nutrition coaching, education, and workforce management. His journey includes scaling high volume consumer facing sites HotOrNot and Ashley Madison where PHP powered the core infrastructure. Even when working with other technologies, Luke has consistently leveraged PHP for marketing technology, community forums, and developer resources. A committed community builder, he founded Toronto's Erlang user group and actively supports the Toronto Elixir and GTA PHP communities. Currently focused on leadership coaching and technology advisory, Luke loves solving hard problems with smart people. Call him if you want to riff on something awesome.
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Tolga Ercan is an accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience leading high-performing engineering organizations across SaaS, fintech, and consumer technology sectors. He currently serves as Director of Engineering at Vetster, a veterinary telehealth platform redefining access to pet care through innovative digital solutions. Tolga has built a career scaling engineering teams, driving cloud migration strategies, and delivering resilient, scalable systems. His leadership experience includes senior roles at Instagram, Edmunds, and early-stage startups, where he has consistently championed technical excellence, operational efficiency, and cultural growth. He has also leveraged technologies such as Laravel to build and scale modern, customer-facing applications in startup environments, applying best practices in software architecture and agile development. As a supporter of the open source community, Tolga believes in the importance of open innovation and actively backs initiatives that advance software transparency, interoperability, and access. He is committed to fostering the future of technology through mentorship, organizational leadership, and community engagement.
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