PHP Serverless News Podcast
Serverless news with a PHP point of view.
With an eye on overall trends.
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#31 - LocalStack changing course, Models as a Service
December 23, 2025 (07:19)
Beginning in March 2026, LocalStack for AWS will be delivered as a single, unified version. Models-as-a-Service is a serverless trend, but not about deploying PHP code....
#30 - Open source framework to create AI agents in PHP
December 16, 2025 (04:30)
A very slow week. I did come upon an interesting open source repo for creating and orchestrating AI agents using PHP, called neuron-ai....
#29 - Crucial news about RAM, Serverless Framework fork, a few re:Invent 2025 items
December 09, 2025 (09:09)
Micron is leaving the consumer RAM market. Shout out to the ongoing love the serverless framework v3 fork is getting. re:Invent 2025 Lambda, EKS, and Multi-cloud announcements....
#28 - Nginx Unit, Market Share, AWS Interconnect
December 02, 2025 (08:55)
Nginx Unit is archived. DigitalOcean announces app cloning and environment support for its App Platform. AWS' market share is decrementing. Rust is now a Lambda native language. AWS Interconnect Multicloud announced at re:Invent 2025....
#27 - The 2025 Datadog State Of Containers And Serverless Survey
November 25, 2025 (09:54)
Talking about the 2025 DataDog State of Containers and Serverless survey....


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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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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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