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#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

#13 - Native Lambda: Doing It Ourselves Is An Answer

April 1, 2023 · (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 · (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

#11 - Smells Like A Duck, Tastes Like Chicken

January 1, 2023 · (08:32)

Lambda is very accommodating to running PHP monolithic apps. The Lambda home page uses server terminology to describe what it is not. It is very logical for PHP devs to assume that Lambda is a server by another name. However, it is still not a server

#10 - Lambda PHP Runtimes: Bootstrapping APIs

December 1, 2022 · (11:11)

What is Lambda's Runtime API's "bootstrap" file? To get a first-hand feel for what this vital file really is, I messed around with it. There is a lot of API action going on. And, surprisingly, there is access to the actual Lambda folder and file s

#9 - Lambda PHP Runtimes: Internally Yours

November 1, 2022 · (11:54)

Diving down the Lambda PHP Runtime Rabbit Hole brought me square into something that I have successfully avoided in my two decades of enjoying PHP as my primary language of choice: PHP Internals. And not just avoided, but consciously and actively

#8 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part Two: Server Less. Literally

October 1, 2022 · (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 · (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

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