The Undercover ElePHPant is a podcast about scaling and optimizing your PHP applications. Each week, Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter sit down with an expert from the PHP community to discuss a specific aspect of highly performant PHP applications.
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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 performa…
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Talking Background Processes and Workers in PHP With Samuel Roze
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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 l…
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Talking about PHP-FPM Tuning with Arne Blankerts
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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? Pl…
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Talking Logging for Production Applications + Best Practices with Jordi Boggiano
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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 …
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Talking Shared-nothing and Shared Everything Architectures + Bref with Matthieu Napoli
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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…
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Integrating with Third-Party APIs with Nils Adermann
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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…
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Retries and Timeouts with Bastian Hofmann
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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 re…
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How to Run PHP Applications on Multiple Servers
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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 be…
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PHP Performance with Marco Pivetta (ocramius)
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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…
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Talking Garbage Collection with Derick Rethans
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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 garbag…
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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 ma…
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