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#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
#6 - Seeking PHP Serverless Project Sponsors
July 25, 2022 · (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 · (14:05)
History of DyanmoDB gives important context to understanding it today.
#4 - Gifting A Contract
March 1, 2021 · (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.
#2 - FOSS And COMMS
November 16, 2020 · (13:04)
Wanting to use AWS Lambda with the Laravel Framework in a "micro-services" fashion, I am starting open source projects to use Bref, DynamoDB, and lightweight form generation. To raise the profile of these projects in the dev community, I will do vide
#1 - The Bob Bloom Show Is On The Air Again!
September 15, 2020 · (06:48)
After an extended hiatus, I am re-igniting my Bob Bloom Show. Introductory show. Go over some history. Splitting my podcast into two separate shows. The format of this show. Musings about sponsorships.
