Give your PHP apps superpowers with FrankenPHP
summary
FrankenPHP is a Go-based application server that replaces nginx + PHP‑FPM by embedding the PHP engine and Caddy web server into a single binary, shipping automatic HTTPS, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, Prometheus metrics and a built‑in Mercure hub. Benchmarks show worker mode yields multi‑fold gains (reports >6× efficiency vs PHP‑FPM for some workloads). It supports HTTP 103 Early Hints, on‑the‑fly caching for WordPress, packaging apps as one distributable binary, and works with existing Symfony and Laravel stacks.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00FrankenPHP introduction
- 3:19What is FrankenPHP
- 8:44How FrankenPHP works under the hood
- 16:39Key features
- 23:57Worker mode for performance
- 30:51Benchmarking alternatives
- 36:29HTTP 103 Early Hints
- 40:31Real-time with Mercure
- 43:54Single binary packaging
- 47:03Q&A
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