We should be back with a new season of the podcast after the Summer but will let you know, exactly, when that will be when we have a firm date set. Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter . Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email podcast@tideways.com . This podcast is produced by Tideways. Don't look further for an all in one Monitoring,...
Apr 17, 2020•2 min•Ep. 10
Samuel shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including: The common challenges with background processes and PHP? Why background processes & workers can be an important aspect of PHP applications? What angel processes are How to handle failed background processes How to handle memory in PHP with long-running processes Plus loads load more! Links Tideways Blog: Five Challenges Running Reliable Background Jobs in PHP Solid (by Sir Tim Berners...
Mar 03, 2020•30 min•Ep. 9
Arne shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including: What PHP-FPM is What differentiates PHP-FPM from Apache/mod_php? NGINX's different pool types (dynamic, static, and ondemand) How to configure PHP-FPM for high-performance and throughput Using multiple PHP-FPM pools in the same application? Plus loads more! Links Slides: Optimizing PHP-FPM for Production (PDF) Tideways blog: An Introduction to PHP-FPM Tuning PHP-FPM Configuring PHP-FPM in P...
Feb 18, 2020•29 min•Ep. 8
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Jordi Boggiano about logging in production applications as well as logging best practices. We also talk about logging formats, filtering log messages, Monolog and loads more! Jordi shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including: How to get started with logging How to integrate logging into an existing application Options for parsing log files once they're available How many log lines to use per ...
Feb 04, 2020•33 min•Ep. 7
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Matthieu Napoli about Shared-nothing and Shared Everything Architectures. We also talk about Bref, Swoole, ReactPHP and loads more! Matthieu shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including: What Shared-nothing and Shared Everything architectures are The advantages and disadvantages of both architecture types Why PHP is the language which is most suited to Serverless and FaaS (Function as a Servic...
Jan 21, 2020•28 min•Ep. 6
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Nils Adermann about integrating with third-party APIs in PHP. Nils shares some excellent advice, including: Handling retries and timeouts Efficiently and effectively working with multiple API vendors How to work with vendors when their actions break your apps Different types of responses ( the good and the bad ) Writing tests Using incremental backoffs Working with rolling rate windows Plus loads load more — including some vendor horror stories! Li...
Jan 07, 2020•25 min•Ep. 5
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Bastian Hofmann about handling retries and timeouts in PHP. Bastian shares a load of great advice, including: Having dedicated hosts for certain traffic Distinguishing between normal users and admin users Offloading work to asynchronous jobs Default socket timeouts and max execution times Automatic retries Tuning settings and rules of thumbs as to how to do so Tooling for monitoring Circuit breakers Integrating monitoring into legacy codebases Plus...
Dec 17, 2019•24 min•Ep. 4
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Robert Douglass and Larry Garfield from Platform.sh about running PHP applications on multiple servers. Robert and Larry share a load of excellent advice, including: - Why you need to use Load Balancers (along with what they are and some of the key options) - How PHP is exceptionally well suited to being deployed across multiple servers out of the box - How you can start deploying your PHP apps on multiple servers today - How to properly share file...
Dec 03, 2019•46 min•Ep. 3
In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Marco Pivetta (ocramius) about: PHP 7.4's new preloading feature: what it is, how it works, the benefits and drawbacks of using it The speed differences between different versions of PHP (especially in 7.x) The difference between OPcache and Preloading How Composer's autoloader may soon be a thing of the past Notable Quotes Composer is the mother of all frameworks. The (Composer) autoloader will gradually disappear. You wouldn't build a house and ...
Nov 12, 2019•30 min•Ep. 2
Thanks to PHP being an interpreted language and it that it has a garbage collector, PHP developers don't often have to think about memory management. Unlike developers in compiled languages, such as C/C++, we don't have to give that much thought to memory allocation and deallocation. However, it's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications. In this episode, Benjamin and ...
Oct 29, 2019•25 min•Ep. 1
Welcome to the introductory episode of The Undercover ElePHPant . This is the welcome episode, where we give you the rundown on what the podcast is about, who we, your lovely podcast hosts, are and what you can expect to hear. So, let's get started. This podcast aims to do three, core, things: Uncover details and secrets of scaling PHP and how to maximise its performance. Discuss different strategies to deploy PHP applications and scripts in production. Provide helpful tips and tricks to keeping...
Oct 07, 2019•3 min
