Monthly commentary on PHP and serverless platforms.
#35 - Climbing the AI Coding Ladder
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
#34 - Fueled By Passion: 15 For 29
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.
#33 - Bullish On PHP's Long Term Success
I am bullish on PHP. On its current state. On its long term success. There are substantive reasons underlying my bullishness. One reason is the four year old PHP Foundation, which is successfully fulfilling its mission to provide financial support an
#32 - Go Modules, The Net-http Package, Go Compilation
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.
#31 - Threads Within A Thread: Goroutines
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.
#30 - High Level Hostility, Low Level Breakthrough
This is first of three episodes understanding the Go programming language's vital importance to the FrankenPHP app server. In this episode, I talk about my resistance, and resentment, having to delve into The Low-Level Stuff. And, about ChatGPT power
#29 - Did AI Make My PHP Serverless Project Obsolete - Redux?
Seeing a video of an integrated AI code generation and deployment platform, triggered a panic attack that AI did indeed make my PHP Serverless Project obsolete. I had examined this last month, in my Update podcast this very question, and my conclusio
#28 - Threading The Process
Getting down to bedrock with the question: "what is a process?". An important ancillary question arises: "what is a thread?".
#27 - My Nova Upgrade Trashed My Custom App, And Significant Announcement About WordPress
Nova's use of Fortify did not play nicely with my custom Laravel authentication guard. My regularly scheduled life was held in abeyance for a couple of weeks while I sorted this out, refreshed my apps, and moved all my apps back to Forge from Cloudwa
#26 - Low Level PHP
I take a look at the min-trend of exploring PHP's low level roots, which are based on the language PHP is written in: C.
#25 - The Seven Things About Serverless That I Think
I have a rather unique viewpoint of serverless in general, and of PHP serverless in particular. A viewpoint that I express in my podcasts, and in my PHP Serverless Project. I have not yet explicitly expressed this viewpoint in one concise podcast, so
#24 - Sponsorship Update, And Journeying Into The Classics
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
#23 - Revisiting PHP-FPM, Visiting Laravel Funding
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
#22 - Hitting The Wall. Variably Priced
A key aspect of serverless platforms is it variable pricing. Also, coming to the realization that my technical understanding of PHP application servers has hit a brick wall. To overcome, I need to do something different.
#21 - The Sponsored PHP Serverless Efforts That I Want To Do
Let's take a break from my journey into PHP application servers, to talk about the PHP serverless efforts that I am about to, finally, seek sponsorship for.
#20 - Axiomatic Shibboleths And Heresies Of PHP Serverless
It's been quite a journey learning about serverless and PHP application servers. I held many preconceived notions, which have turned out to be wrong. Let look at some of them.
#19 - PHP Developer's Guide To PHP Servers And Serverless: Part Three - Further Prelude With Go
This third episode of my journey into PHP application servers, I look deeper into Go. An intriguing language, I do my first Go "Hello World", and look at the docs and code samples more as to do some first programs with Go, rather than just to learn G
#18 - PHP Developer's Guide To PHP Servers And Serverless: Part Two - Working Towards Go
The second episode in my journey into PHP servers and serverless. Having gone back in time and looking at mod_php and php-fpm in the first of this series, now it is time to look under the hood of what powers modern PHP application servers. The Go lan
#17 - PHP Developer's Guide To PHP Servers And Serverless: Part One - MOD_PHP And PHP-FPM
To understand today's PHP application servers, and PHP serverless offerings, I went back in time. To really take a look at the MOD_PHP module for Apache. And at PHP-FPM. This look is to presage a look at "workers" in todays PHP app servers, and at PH
#16 - Our Local Toronto Area PHP Groups
In this episode, I want to thank everyone involved, past and present, who make our local PHP groups happen. And, I want to answer a question posed in the December 2023 issue of PHP Architect Magazine. And, I want to make a suggestion about directly c
#15 - Independently Register Domains
Independently register your domains. Register your domains at a domain registrar. And do nothing else with that domain registrar.
#14 - Peak PHP Monolith, And The Rise Of The Lambda Reseller
The rise of the Lambda, compute service, and general serverless resellers will slowly contribute to moving PHP away from monolithic development. This is the era of Peak PHP Monolith. An epiphany from long contemplation, watching a re:Invent video, an
#13 - Native Lambda: Doing It Ourselves Is An Answer
Incredibly, AWS is not keeping up with its native Lambda runtime updates. One answer is take a page from PHP developers: do it yourself. Yes, it is an answer.
#12 - Conceptualizing Do It Yourself Serverless
Playing with type one hypervisor software gave me a better sense of cloud servers. So playing with compute service software should give me a better sense of serverless. In the absence of such an out-of-the-box software, instead I conceptualized what
#8 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part Two: Server Less. Literally
A frustrating aspect of understanding of "serverless" is the term itself. This term conveys what the technology is not, rather than encapsulating what the technology is. There is a silver lining. This term, when taken literally, by describing wha
#7 - The Hater's Guide To PHP Serverless Part One: PHP, Where Art Thou?
Amazon Web Services does not directly support PHP for Lambda. PHP devs eager to use Lambda have a shockingly challenging road to travel with Lambda. I say shocking because AWS has directly supported using PHP with its services, but has decided not to
#6 - Seeking PHP Serverless Project Sponsors
Seeking fifteen sponsors to fund seven months of intensive effort to publish much needed free and open source materials about Lambda+PHP, setting up and managing repos for PHP code deployed to serverless platforms, and for the new Digital Ocean Funct
#5 - Subverting Query Language
History of DyanmoDB gives important context to understanding it today.
#4 - Gifting A Contract
The common practice of developers seeking project sponsorship offering consulting type of inducements for sponsorship makes me nervous. I talk about why I do not offer any inducements in my GitHub Sponsors' sponsorship tiers.
#3 - The Interview Interview
Your host spends some personal time with... your host.
#2 - FOSS And COMMS
Wanting to use AWS Lambda with the Laravel Framework in a "micro-services" fashion, I am starting open source projects to use Bref, DynamoDB, and lightweight form generation. To raise the profile of these projects in the dev community, I will do vide
#1 - The Bob Bloom Show Is On The Air Again!
After an extended hiatus, I am re-igniting my Bob Bloom Show. Introductory show. Go over some history. Splitting my podcast into two separate shows. The format of this show. Musings about sponsorships.