The Bob Bloom Show

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. With more serverless platforms being introduced into the marketplace, it is important to understand exactly what these technologies are, and to unde...

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 structure. There appears to be no actual bootstrap stuff going on, in the traditional server sense of the word.

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 avoided. But, now, there is really no way to avoid getting involved in the PHP Internals, in some way, when it comes to doing your own PHP Runtimes for L...

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 what the technology is not, profoundly conveys the cultural divide this technology represents.

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 do so with Lambda.

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 Functions.

Found a context with which to understand DynamoDB when I learned about its history.

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.

Your host spends some personal time with... your host.

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 videos, screencasts, streaming, and podcasting.

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.