The Bob Bloom Show is my monthly commentary podcast devoted to PHP, published on the first of the month.

My main focus is pairing PHP with serverless platforms.

March 01, 2024 (31:30)
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...
February 01, 2024 (18:40)
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...
January 01, 2024 (20:22)
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...
December 01, 2023 (10:18)
Independently register your domains. Register your domains at a domain registrar. And do nothing else with that domain registrar....
May 01, 2023 (20:56)
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...