PHP Serverless News Podcast
Serverless news with a PHP point of view.
With an eye on overall trends.
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#24 - PHP Async, DigitalOcean Partners With Laravel, Prices Continue Trending Downward, New Releases, Interesting FrankenPHP Discussion, Vercel Series F, Bolt's New Phase Of Vibe Coding
October 07, 2025 (19:27)
I have 10 items to bring to your attention. The PHP True Async RFC's development is progressing. DigitalOcean announces their Strategic Partnership with Laravel's Forge. There are serverless price lowerings, without being outright price drops....
#23 - Staying With Weekly, Vote For PIE, VibeSDK Is Open Source
September 30, 2025 (10:44)
Weekly news and nuggets. Abstentions are now a thing with PHP RFC voting, PIE is adopted, VibeSDK is now open source....
#22 - Azure's Automatic Kubernetes, Vercel Scales To One, AWS Previews CDK CLI Refactors, AWS Adds Two Regions To Its Second Generation Outpost Racks
September 23, 2025 (08:04)
Azure announced AKS Automatic is GA. Vercel offers "scale to one" for Pro and Enterprise plans, AWS CDK CLI Refactor is in preview, and AWS Outposts available in two new regions....
#21 - Another Lambda Trio, Vercel Pro pricing changes, and a PSA
September 16, 2025 (05:26)
Another Lambda Trio, Vercel Pro pricing changes, and an npm supply chain attack....
#20 - Various price changes, AWS CDK Blueprint, and DigitalOcean SeaStack
September 09, 2025 (06:33)
Tracking various price changes, the new-ish CDK Blueprint, and the new DigitalOcean SeaStack....


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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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Tolga Ercan is an accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience leading high-performing engineering organizations across SaaS, fintech, and consumer technology sectors. He currently serves as Director of Engineering at Vetster, a veterinary telehealth platform redefining access to pet care through innovative digital solutions. Tolga has built a career scaling engineering teams, driving cloud migration strategies, and delivering resilient, scalable systems. His leadership experience includes senior roles at Instagram, Edmunds, and early-stage startups, where he has consistently championed technical excellence, operational efficiency, and cultural growth. He has also leveraged technologies such as Laravel to build and scale modern, customer-facing applications in startup environments, applying best practices in software architecture and agile development. As a supporter of the open source community, Tolga believes in the importance of open innovation and actively backs initiatives that advance software transparency, interoperability, and access. He is committed to fostering the future of technology through mentorship, organizational leadership, and community engagement.
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