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#20 - Axiomatic Shibboleths And Heresies Of PHP Serverless
May 1, 2024 · 00:15:34
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 · 00:16:14
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 · 00:31:30
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 · 00:18:40
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 · 00:20:22
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 · 00:10:18
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 · 00:20:56
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
#13 - Native Lambda: Doing It Ourselves Is An Answer
April 1, 2023 · 00:17:52
Incredibly, AWS is not keeping up with its native Lambda runtime updates. One answer is take a page from PHP developers: do it yourself. Yes, it is an answer.
#12 - Conceptualizing Do It Yourself Serverless
March 1, 2023 · 00:13:42
Playing with type one hypervisor software gave me a better sense of cloud servers. So playing with compute service software should give me a better sense of serverless. In the absence of such an out-of-the-box software, instead I conceptualized what
#8 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part Two: Server Less. Literally
October 1, 2022 · 00:28:01
A frustrating aspect of understanding of "serverless" is the term itself. This term conveys what the technology is not, rather than encapsulating what the technology is. There is a silver lining. This term, when taken literally, by describing wha
#7 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part One: PHP, Where Art Thou?
September 1, 2022 · 00:14:08
Amazon Web Services does not directly support PHP for Lambda. PHP devs eager to use Lambda have a shockingly challenging road to travel with Lambda. I say shocking because AWS has directly supported using PHP with its services, but has decided not to
#6 - Seeking PHP Serverless Project Sponsors
July 25, 2022 · 00:15:35
Seeking fifteen sponsors to fund seven months of intensive effort to publish much needed free and open source materials about Lambda+PHP, setting up and managing repos for PHP code deployed to serverless platforms, and for the new Digital Ocean Funct
#5 - Subverting Query Language
April 1, 2021 · 00:14:05
History of DyanmoDB gives important context to understanding it today.
#4 - Gifting A Contract
March 1, 2021 · 00:10:05
The common practice of developers seeking project sponsorship offering consulting type of inducements for sponsorship makes me nervous. I talk about why I do not offer any inducements in my GitHub Sponsors' sponsorship tiers.
#3 - The Interview Interview
November 30, 2020 · 23:41
Your host spends some personal time with... your host.
