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

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....
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - MARCH 29, 2025
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - MARCH 29, 2025
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....
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - MARCH 10, 2025
PHP SERVERLESS PROJECT UPDATE - MARCH 10, 2025
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....
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Latest "The Bob Bloom Show" Podcast

The Bob Bloom Show
#24 - Sponsorship Update, And Journeying Into The Classics
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...
The Bob Bloom Show
#23 - Revisiting PHP-FPM, Visiting Laravel Funding
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

PHP Serverless News
#10 - Internal Scaling
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....
PHP Serverless News
#9 - Free And Open Source Authentication, Concurrency Injection
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

PHP Serverless Profiles
#1 - Impressions Of Laravel Cloud
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

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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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)