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 "The Bob Bloom Show" Podcast

The Bob Bloom Show
#35 - Climbing the AI Coding Ladder
March 10, 2026
Anthropic decided that they had had enough of me for the week, and cut me off.Instead of availing myself of their entreaties to buy pay-as-you-go credits, I decided to take a break from my new custom application, for my PHP Serverless News podcas...
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....

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
#8 - Cooked A Website, Continuing My Hiatus, Custom Application For My News Podcast Is Progressing Well
February 24, 2026
Going from zero to AI in a few weeks with my custom application for PHP Serverless News, that will help me expand my coverage significantly. Which has made my extended podcasting hiatus immensely worthwhile. I have formally closed down my CookingRunt...
PHP Serverless Project Updates
#7 - Hiatus To Work On New Sponsorship Site, And Doing A New AI Application
January 29, 2026
Taking a hiatus from podcasting to work on my new sponsorship site. I curated my own list of PHP podcasts and YouTube channels, and it is an interesting list. I looked into general podcast sponsorship and advertising for the first time, which was an...
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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)