A wide ranging PHP serverless project encompassing podcasts, runtimes, guides, software, videos.
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Latest Videos

March 29, 2025
In this second PHP Serverless Project update video, I talk about my inaugural PHP Serverless Profiles podcastd, publishing my 10th "News" podcast, thoughts on my Lambda+PHP project, and more....
March 10, 2025
Every three weeks or so, I will get in front of the camera with my notes, and talk to you about what is happening with my PHP Serverless Project....
April 09, 2023
I am not sure why I thought that Bref's PHP runtimes could be used on their own. But, it was instructive working through it for a video. I traced my failure. I thought it would be helpful to share what I found....

Latest "The Bob Bloom Show" Podcast

November 01, 2024
I am thrilled, and frankly, somewhat relieved, that there is progress with my PHP Serverless Project sponsorship. This podcast show is part of this "umbrella" sponsorship. Also, my journey into PHP application servers has brought me to a classic Unix...
October 01, 2024
Lamenting the state of the content creation industry, when re-visiting PHP-FPM materials. Causing me to conclude that the materials I seek, I will have to create myself. And, finding myself worried that Laravel's new venture funding might affect its...

Latest "PHP Serverless News" Podcast

March 26, 2025
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....
October 15, 2024
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....

Latest "PHP Serverless Profiles" Podcast

March 26, 2025
In this inaugural episode of my PHP Serverless Profiles, I talk about my initial impressions of the recently launched Laravel Cloud....

Latest "The Bob Bloom Interviews" Podcast

March 25, 2023
How I want to go about my interviews. This is the last of four introductory episodes....
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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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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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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