Commentary podcast about PHP software development. Hosted by Bob Bloom
March 01, 2023
(13:42)
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...
January 01, 2023
(08:32)
Lambda is very accommodating to running PHP monolithic apps. The Lambda home page uses server terminology to describe what it is not. It is very logical for PHP devs to assume that Lambda is a server by another name. However, it is still not a server...
December 01, 2022
(11:11)
What is Lambda's Runtime API's "bootstrap" file? To get a first-hand feel for what this vital file really is, I messed around with it. There is a lot of API action going on. And, surprisingly, there is access to the actual Lambda folder and file s...
November 01, 2022
(11:54)
Diving down the Lambda PHP Runtime Rabbit Hole brought me square into something that I have successfully avoided in my two decades of enjoying PHP as my primary language of choice: PHP Internals. And not just avoided, but consciously and actively...
October 01, 2022
(28:01)
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...
September 01, 2022
(14:08)
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...
July 25, 2022
(15:35)
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...
April 01, 2021
(14:05)
History of DyanmoDB gives important context to understanding it today....
March 01, 2021
(10:05)
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....
November 30, 2020
(23:41)
Your host spends some personal time with... your host....
November 17, 2020
(13:04)
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...
September 15, 2020
(06:48)
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....