#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 open source software negatively, based on industry precedent.
Links
- WordPress: Funding, Buyback, and Hiring
<div>In February of this year, Automattic closed a new primary funding round of $288M.</div>
- WP Engine, a managed WordPress platform, raises $250M from Silver Lake
<div>WP Engine, which claims to be one of the world's largest WordPress hosts, has raised $250 million in funding led by Silver Lake.</div>
- GNU GPL Software Freedoms
- Laravel: Accel invests $57M into Laravel Products & Open-Source Framework
<div>tl;dr - Laravel took a $57M Series A investment from Accel.</div>
- Accel: Announcing Accel XVI: Our Latest Early-Stage Fund
- Accel: Our Series A Investment in Laravel: The Future of Shipping
- Vercel: Vercel completes $250 mln Series E round at $3.25 bln valuation
- GitHub: Local Toronto PHP Groups
<div>GitHub Organization that acts in lieu of an actual website for our PHP Groups.</div>
- WordPRess: YouTube video -- The WordPress Situation is Crazy (Oct 2024)
<div>Wordpress and Automattic started what was initially a fairly reasonable complaint against WP Engine.</div>
Attributions
Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, Op.21:
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- https://imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_No.1,_Op.21_(Beethoven,_Ludwig_van)
Beethoven's Symphony No.9, Op.125: