PHP Serverless Project
A wide ranging PHP serverless project encompassing podcasts, runtimes, guides, software, videos.
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Latest "The Bob Bloom Show" Podcast

The Bob Bloom Show
#34 - Fueled By Passion: 15 For 29
January 01, 2026
Researching general podcasting, and the state of PHP podcasting, was a new, and eye-opening experience. My podcasts impart more inherent value to my potential Umbrella Sponsors than I assumed....
The Bob Bloom Show
#33 - Bullish On PHP's Long Term Success
December 01, 2025
I am bullish on PHP. On its current state. On its long term success. There are substantive reasons underlying my bullishness. One reason is the four year old PHP Foundation, which is successfully fulfilling its mission to provide financial support an...

Latest "PHP Serverless News" Podcast

PHP Serverless News
#31 - LocalStack changing course, Models as a Service
December 23, 2025
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....
PHP Serverless News
#30 - Open source framework to create AI agents in PHP
December 16, 2025
A very slow week. I did come upon an interesting open source repo for creating and orchestrating AI agents using PHP, called neuron-ai....

Latest "PHP Serverless Profiles" Podcast

PHP Serverless Profiles
#6 - Plain English Look At FrankenPHP
December 17, 2025
This is my podcast version of my Laravel Toronto presentation of the same name. This is an attempt to summarize my learning so far about FrankenPHP, in a way that does not use a lot of tech talk....
PHP Serverless Profiles
#5 - PHP-FPM: Bringing Out Linux's Inner Child
December 10, 2025
Before continuing my journey into FrankenPHP, it is important to tie up my loose ends of not understanding PHP-FPM. In this episode, I finally tie up this loose end, starting with the Linux child process....

Latest "PHP Serverless Project Updates" Podcast

PHP Serverless Project Updates
#6 - A Frustrating 2025 Concludes On A High Note
December 26, 2025
2025 was supposed to be a year of smooth podcast production and publication. That is not how it turned out. I introduced a new podcast show. I had to build new features for my custom podcast platform to support my shows. I messed up my shows with ove...
PHP Serverless Project Updates
#5 - Over The Hump With Over The Hump
November 27, 2025
My "over the hump" syndrome reared its ugly head again, after an innocuous genesis. I am now back to producing my full slate of podcasts. And, I have a plan for cauterizing the seeds of this syndrome, to ensure the primacy of my podcast schedule....
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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.
Luke Galea
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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.
(Luke Galea's website)
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.
Tolga Ercan
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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.
(Tolga Ercan's website)