PHP on serverless, how it works under the hood
summary
Explains how PHP runs in serverless on AWS Lambda using the open-source Bref runtime (started 2017), describing Bref’s internals and how it interacts with AWS Lambda infrastructure down to the bare-metal servers. Draws on public documentation plus seven years of operating and maintaining Bref, and reports practical findings and surprises about the runtime and Lambda platform.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00PHP serverless intro
- 4:57Scaling Lambda demo
- 7:25AWS Lambda internals
- 10:54Firecracker and microVMs
- 13:00Instance startup details
- 17:55Latency and execution model
- 22:07Cold starts and costs
- 28:48Non-HTTP events
- 33:39Use cases and examples
- 39:17Who serverless is for
- 47:03Q&A
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