Serverless news with a PHP point of view. With an eye on overall trends. Hosted by Bob Bloom.
#31 - LocalStack changing course, Models as a Service
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
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
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
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
Talking about the 2025 DataDog State of Containers and Serverless survey....
#26 - JetBrains CI/CD, PHP, And Ecosystem 2025 Surveys
Going over a trio of 2025 JetBrains surveys: CI/CD, Developer Ecosystem, PHP....
#25 - Lambda Is SWIFT To Recognize The Value Of PHP
Using the AWS announcement that Swift runtimes for Lambda is moving to the AWSLabs GitHub organization, as a pre-text to refute notions that somehow PHP not being Lambda native is indicative of PHP's decline. By taking a look back at Lambda's histor...
#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
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
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
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
Another Lambda Trio, Vercel Pro pricing changes, and an npm supply chain attack....
#20 - Various price changes, AWS CDK Blueprint, and DigitalOcean SeaStack
Tracking various price changes, the new-ish CDK Blueprint, and the new DigitalOcean SeaStack....
#19 - A Trio Of Lambda Summer Releases
This summer, AWS released a trio of Lambda features of significance to PHP developers....
#18 - Bref's Serverless Framework v3 fork is updating to AWS PHP Javascript v3
A major effort to migrate to AWS SDK Javascript v3 gives me occassion to bring Bref's fork of the Serverless Framework v3 to your attention....
#17 - Amazon's 2024 10-K: Trickle Down Pressure On Lambda
Amazon's 2024 10-k suggests continued addiction to AWS operating income. And perhaps suggests pressure on AWS to expand revenue and margins to help internally fund AI spending. This could inspire expanding the AWS Partner network, and signing more de...
#16 - AWS Changes Its Free Tier, Serverless-ish AI Platforms, CloudFlare Containers How-To Example, And Private Serverless
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
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
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
The new AWS Serverless MCP Server was launched on May 29, 2025....
#12 - The New PHP Installer For PHP Extensions
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
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
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
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
Starting in September, publishing three episodes per month. One episode for each sub-format: news, profiles, and industry trends....
#7 - Surveying PHP Serverless
Time to something that I have yet to do: survey PHP serverless vendors and projects....
#6 - IBM, DigitalOcean, And OpenWhisk
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
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
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
Cloudways introduces managed WordPress hosting that very much looks like Kubernetes on their serverless platform....
#2 - Profiling Bref
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
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....