PHP Serverless News Podcast
Serverless news with a PHP point of view.
With an eye on overall trends.
Hosted by Bob Bloom.

#10 - Internal Scaling
March 26, 2025 (19:36)
In this episode I talk about Spatie's Fork package, the Laravel Framework's recent concurrency Illuminate package, the recently accepted 'Add persistent curl share handles' PHP RFC, and Vercel's new Fluid product....
#9 - Free And Open Source Authentication, Concurrency Injection
October 15, 2024 (15:59)
The Serverless Framework is changing their licensing for version 4. Version 3 is approaching EoL. PHP devs using the Serverless Framework will have to decide what they want to do. I will have more to say about this in my upcoming Commentary podcast....
#8 - Evolving This Podcast
August 15, 2024 (12:24)
Starting in September, publishing three episodes per month. One episode for each sub-format: news, profiles, and industry trends....
#7 - Surveying PHP Serverless
May 15, 2024 (17:12)
Time to something that I have yet to do: survey PHP serverless vendors and projects....
#6 - IBM, DigitalOcean, And OpenWhisk
April 15, 2024 (16:49)
IBM and DigitalOcean's serverless offerings have something in common: the free and open source OpenWhisk software. Let's take a brief look at this history....
#5 - Writing Your Own Custom PHP Runtimes For Lambda
March 15, 2024 (20:24)
I want to talk about three specific things about Amazon Web Services' Lambda: Graviton, the Execution Environment, and the bootstrap file. The context is writing your own custom PHP runtimes for Lambda....
#4 - Linking Capital Expenditures With Serverless Innovation
February 15, 2024 (20:12)
This is a catch-up episode of sorts, as I have a bunch of notes for this episode that I want to get to. A macro look at the serverless industry, a look at the hyper-clouds focusing on their core primitives, and a look at the linkage between capital e...
#3 - A Serverful Of Serverless Mish-Mash
January 15, 2024 (14:49)
Cloudways introduces managed WordPress hosting that very much looks like Kubernetes on their serverless platform....
#2 - Profiling Bref
April 06, 2023 (21:46)
In this episode, I profile The Bref Project, with an eye on its recent major release of version 2.0, which was tagged on March 14th. I will touch on Bref's history, PHP runtimes, Serverless Framework plugin, intermediation code, documentation, and th...
#1 - PHP Serverless Market Size
March 01, 2023 (17:37)
Welcome to my inaugural episode of my PHP Serverless News podcast. To kick things off, I am taking a bird's eye view of PHP serverless....

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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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