PHP Serverless Project
A wide ranging PHP serverless project encompassing podcasts, runtimes, guides, software, videos.
My wonderful sponsors are the reason why everything is freely available/FOSS for our amazing worldwide PHP Community.

Latest Videos

PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - June 22, 2025
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - June 22, 2025
June 22, 2025
In this fifth monthly PHP Serverless Project update video, I talk about AI, moving my apps back to Forge, an active podcast publishing month, updating my RSS feed files, kick-starting my Lambda+PHP FOSS project, and publishing my sponsorship videos....
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - May 28, 2025
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
In this fourth PHP Serverless Project update video, I talk about wrapping up my 13 part video series for potential Umbrella Sponsors, how liberating it feels to get this done, having lavished too much time editing the NativePHP for Mobile video, modi...
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - APRIL 23, 2025
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - APRIL 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
In this third PHP Serverless Project update video, I talk about my AWS Open Source Credits, Basecamp, the reality of creating sponsorship materials, and this month feels like a true demarcation for my PHP Serverless Project....
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Latest "The Bob Bloom Show" Podcast

The Bob Bloom Show
#32 - Go Modules, The Net-http Package, Go Compilation
November 01, 2025
This is my third of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about Go's first-party net-http package, Go Modules, and Go's compilation....
The Bob Bloom Show
#31 - Threads Within A Thread: Goroutines
October 15, 2025
This is my second of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. FrankenPHP relies on goroutines, an essential feature of Go. This episode is about goroutines....

Latest "PHP Serverless News" Podcast

PHP Serverless News
#27 - The 2025 Datadog State Of Containers And Serverless Survey
November 25, 2025
Talking about the 2025 DataDog State of Containers and Serverless survey....
PHP Serverless News
#26 - JetBrains CI/CD, PHP, And Ecosystem 2025 Surveys
November 24, 2025
Going over a trio of 2025 JetBrains surveys: CI/CD, Developer Ecosystem, PHP....

Latest "PHP Serverless Profiles" Podcast

PHP Serverless Profiles
#3 - Boosting Deployments
August 27, 2025
Vercel's new v0.app platform inspired my imagination to conjure up a future direct connection between generating Laravel Framework based coding with Laravel Cloud. Plus, I do not consider the v0.app a strictly serverless platform....
PHP Serverless Profiles
#2 - A Look At Bref Cloud
June 15, 2025
The FOSS Bref Project was critical in getting me over-the-hump with figuring out how to use PHP with Lambda. This success with PHP+Lambda got me into PHP Serverless.I am eager to profile serverless platforms and technologies not named Amazon/Goog...

Latest "The Bob Bloom Interviews" Podcast

The Bob Bloom Interviews
#4 - Guide For Guests
March 25, 2023
How I want to go about my interviews. This is the last of four introductory episodes....
The Bob Bloom Interviews
#3 - Terms Of Directories
January 01, 2023
Continuing my updates. I listed my podcasts on a handful of podcast directories. The terms of service were similar, and interesting....
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They took a chance on me, to benefit our worldwide PHP Community!
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
Basecamp subscription sponsor
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)