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#28 - Threading The Process

August 1, 2025 · (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 · (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 · (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 · (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 · (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 · (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 · (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 · (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.

#20 - Axiomatic Shibboleths And Heresies Of PHP Serverless

May 1, 2024 · (15:34)

It's been quite a journey learning about serverless and PHP application servers. I held many preconceived notions, which have turned out to be wrong. Let look at some of them.

#19 - PHP Developer's Guide To PHP Servers And Serverless: Part Three - Further Prelude With Go

April 1, 2024 · (16:14)

This third episode of my journey into PHP application servers, I look deeper into Go. An intriguing language, I do my first Go "Hello World", and look at the docs and code samples more as to do some first programs with Go, rather than just to learn G

#18 - PHP Developer's Guide To PHP Servers And Serverless: Part Two - Working Towards Go

March 1, 2024 · (31:30)

The second episode in my journey into PHP servers and serverless. Having gone back in time and looking at mod_php and php-fpm in the first of this series, now it is time to look under the hood of what powers modern PHP application servers. The Go lan

#17 - PHP Developer's Guide To PHP Servers And Serverless: Part One - MOD_PHP And PHP-FPM

February 1, 2024 · (18:40)

To understand today's PHP application servers, and PHP serverless offerings, I went back in time. To really take a look at the MOD_PHP module for Apache. And at PHP-FPM. This look is to presage a look at "workers" in todays PHP app servers, and at PH

#16 - Our Local Toronto Area PHP Groups

January 1, 2024 · (20:22)

In this episode, I want to thank everyone involved, past and present, who make our local PHP groups happen. And, I want to answer a question posed in the December 2023 issue of PHP Architect Magazine. And, I want to make a suggestion about directly c

#15 - Independently Register Domains

December 1, 2023 · (10:18)

Independently register your domains. Register your domains at a domain registrar. And do nothing else with that domain registrar.

#14 - Peak PHP Monolith, And The Rise Of The Lambda Reseller

May 1, 2023 · (20:56)

The rise of the Lambda, compute service, and general serverless resellers will slowly contribute to moving PHP away from monolithic development. This is the era of Peak PHP Monolith. An epiphany from long contemplation, watching a re:Invent video, an

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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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