All Episodes
#16 - AWS Changes Its Free Tier, Serverless-ish AI Platforms, CloudFlare Containers How-To Example, And Private Serverless
July 29, 2025 · (07:39)
AWS announces major changes to its free tier, DigitalOcean announces a serverless-ish sounding AI platform, how-to Cloudflare posts, and private serverless.
#15 - IBM Object Storage, Google Cloud Run Workers, MCP Servers On Lambda
July 22, 2025 · (09:46)
IBM announces its Cloud Object Storage One Rate Plan, reinforcing an industry trend to lower object storage costs. AI is the impetus, and serverless is the beneficiary. Google announced Cloud Run Worker Pools to enable non-request serverless workload
#14 - Cloudflare Containers, CDK Telemetry, And Chasing The News
July 15, 2025 · (09:25)
Cloudflare containers in beta accommodate any language. AWS announces telemetry for the Cloud Development Kit in August. And, I ask how it came to be that I am chasing for news every week when there does not seem to be PHP serverless news going on, i
#13 - AWS Serverless MCP Server
June 24, 2025 · (05:20)
The new AWS Serverless MCP Server was launched on May 29, 2025.
#12 - The New PHP Installer For PHP Extensions
June 17, 2025 · (07:36)
There is a new way of handling PHP extensions in the works. The pressure is on to get a release out sooner than later, because the current way is failing under the newer PHP 8 releases. The new PHP Installer for Extensions ("PIE") is under develo
#11 - PHP Foundation Officially Supports FrankenPHP
June 10, 2025 · (04:36)
The PHP Foundation announced that it is officially supporting FrankenPHP. IMO, this makes FrankenPHP the de facto standard for PHP application servers.
#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 6, 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
