PHP Serverless News

Beginning in March 2026, LocalStack for AWS will be delivered as a single, unified version. Models-as-a-Service is a serverless trend, but not about deploying PHP code. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-erc...

A very slow week. I did come upon an interesting open source repo for creating and orchestrating AI agents using PHP, called neuron-ai. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: h...

Micron is leaving the consumer RAM market. Shout out to the ongoing love the serverless framework v3 fork is getting. re:Invent 2025 Lambda, EKS, and Multi-cloud announcements. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/t...

Nginx Unit is archived. DigitalOcean announces app cloning and environment support for its App Platform. AWS' market share is decrementing. Rust is now a Lambda native language. AWS Interconnect Multicloud announced at re:Invent 2025. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bi...

Talking about the 2025 DataDog State of Containers and Serverless survey. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: https://phpserverlessnews.com/episode/php-serverless-news-ep27-...

Going over a trio of 2025 JetBrains surveys: CI/CD, Developer Ecosystem, PHP. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: https://phpserverlessnews.com/episode/php-serverless-news-e...

Using the AWS announcement that Swift runtimes for Lambda is moving to the AWSLabs GitHub organization, as a pre-text to refute notions that somehow PHP not being Lambda native is indicative of PHP's decline. By taking a look back at Lambda's history. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke...

I have 10 items to bring to your attention. The PHP True Async RFC's development is progressing. DigitalOcean announces their Strategic Partnership with Laravel's Forge. There are serverless price lowerings, without being outright price drops. Some release announcements. Vercel Series F funding round. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless P...

Weekly news and nuggets. Abstentions are now a thing with PHP RFC voting, PIE is adopted, VibeSDK is now open source. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: https://phpserverle...

Azure announced AKS Automatic is GA. Vercel offers "scale to one" for Pro and Enterprise plans, AWS CDK CLI Refactor is in preview, and AWS Outposts available in two new regions. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in...

Another Lambda Trio, Vercel Pro pricing changes, and an npm supply chain attack. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: "https://phpserverlessnews.com/episode/php-serverless-ne...

Tracking various price changes, the new-ish CDK Blueprint, and the new DigitalOcean SeaStack. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: "https://phpserverlessnews.com/episode/php-...

This summer, AWS released a trio of Lambda features of significance to PHP developers. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web page: "https://phpserverlessnews.com/episode/php-serverl...

A major effort to migrate to AWS SDK Javascript v3 gives me occassion to bring Bref's fork of the Serverless Framework v3 to your attention. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: • Episode's web pa...

Amazon's 2024 10-k suggests continued addiction to AWS operating income. And perhaps suggests pressure on AWS to expand revenue and margins to help internally fund AI spending. This could inspire expanding the AWS Partner network, and signing more deals with third-parties. The pressure to keep Lambda prices where they are might encourage competitors to decrement their serverless prices. It is with...

AWS announces major changes to its free tier, DigitalOcean announces a serverless-ish sounding AI platform, how-to Cloudflare posts, and private serverless. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tolga-ercan Links: •...

IBM announces its Cloud Object Storage One Rate Plan, reinforcing an industry trend to lower object storage costs. AI is the impetus, and serverless is the beneficiary. Google announced Cloud Run Worker Pools to enable non-request serverless workloads. A fantastic blog post by an AWS Serverless hero describes his journey running MCP servers on Lambda. It is with deep gratitude that I express my th...

Cloudflare containers in beta accommodate any language. AWS announces telemetry for the Cloud Development Kit in August. And, I ask how it came to be that I am chasing for news every week when there does not seem to be PHP serverless news going on, in any given week. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a...

Launched in late May, 2025, the new AWS Serverless MCP Server gives AI coding assistants knowledge of serverless patterns, best practices, and Amazon services, acts as an intelligent companion, guiding developers through the entire application development lifecycle, from initial design to deployment, offering contextual assistance at each stage. As development progresses, the MCP server assists wi...

There is a new way of handling PHP extensions in the works. The pressure is on to get a release out sooner than later, because the current way is failing under the newer PHP 8 releases. The new PHP Installer for Extensions ("PIE") is under development, under the auspices of The PHP Foundation. PIE is a modern take on distributing and installing PHP extentions. With a big inspiration from Composer....

In my opinion, something very profound just happened: the PHP Foundation announced that it is officially supporting FrankenPHP. IMO, this makes FrankenPHP the de facto standard for PHP application servers. It is with deep gratitude that I express my thanks to my intrepid sponsors of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of: • Luke Galea: https://bit.ly/LukeGalea • Tolga Ercan:...

In this episode I talk about Spatie's Fork package, the Laravel Framework's recent concurrency Illuminate package, the recently accepted 'Add persistent curl share handles' PHP RFC, and Vercel's new Fluid product. A very special thank you to my first two intrepid supporters of my PHP Serverless Project, of which this podcast is a part of. Tolga Ercan and Luke Galea. It is not easy being first. Tha...

The Serverless Framework is changing their licensing for version 4. Version 3 is approaching EoL. PHP devs using the Serverless Framework will have to decide what they want to do. I will have more to say about this in my upcoming Commentary podcast. Vercel's new in-function concurrency feature is very interesting.

Starting in September, publishing three episodes per month. One episode for each sub-format: news, profiles, and industry trends.

Time to something that I have yet to do: survey PHP serverless vendors and projects.