The Undercover ElePHPant

Benjamin Eberlei, Matthew Setter

The Undercover ElePHPant is a podcast about scaling and optimizing your PHP applications. Each week, Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter sit down with an expert from the PHP community to discuss a specific aspect of highly performant PHP applications.

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Talking Background Processes and Workers in PHP With Samuel Roze

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03/03/20 • 29 min

Samuel shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including:

The common challenges with background processes and PHP?
Why background processes & workers can be an important aspect of PHP applications?
What angel processes are
How to handle failed background processes
How to handle memory in PHP with long-running processes
Plus loads load more!

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Guests: Samuel Roze

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you'd like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].

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Taking a Summer Break

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04/17/20 • 2 min

We should be back with a new season of the podcast after the Summer but will let you know, exactly, when that will be when we have a firm date set.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Talking about PHP-FPM Tuning with Arne Blankerts

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02/18/20 • 28 min

Arne shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including:

What PHP-FPM is
What differentiates PHP-FPM from Apache/mod_php?
NGINX's different pool types (dynamic, static, and ondemand)
How to configure PHP-FPM for high-performance and throughput
Using multiple PHP-FPM pools in the same application?
Plus loads more!

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Guests: Arne Blankerts

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Talking Logging for Production Applications + Best Practices with Jordi Boggiano

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02/04/20 • 32 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Jordi Boggiano about logging in production applications as well as logging best practices. We also talk about logging formats, filtering log messages, Monolog and loads more! Jordi shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including:

How to get started with logging
How to integrate logging into an existing application
Options for parsing log files once they're available
How many log lines to use per request
How to create meaningful log records
Jordi's logging best practices
Some privacy points to be aware of in the context of the GDPR, CalOPPA, HIPPA, etc.
Plus loads load more!

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Guests: Jordi Boggiano

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Talking Shared-nothing and Shared Everything Architectures + Bref with Matthieu Napoli

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01/21/20 • 27 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Matthieu Napoli about Shared-nothing and Shared Everything Architectures. We also talk about Bref, Swoole, ReactPHP and loads more! Matthieu shared a load of excellent advice that you can start using today in your PHP applications, including:

What Shared-nothing and Shared Everything architectures are
The advantages and disadvantages of both architecture types
Why PHP is the language which is most suited to Serverless and FaaS (Function as a Service)
A little of the right mindset for developing Serverless code in PHP
Some of the challenges ahead for PHP
Where PHP could go in the future with respect to Shared-Nothing architecture
Plus loads load more!

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Bref (Build Serverless PHP Applications)
Serverless PHP News
Serverless PHP applications with Bref (YouTube)
FaaS (Function as a Service)
Swoole
Roadrunner
ReactPHP

Guests: Matthieu Napoli.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Integrating with Third-Party APIs with Nils Adermann

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01/07/20 • 24 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Nils Adermann about integrating with third-party APIs in PHP. Nils shares some excellent advice, including:

Handling retries and timeouts
Efficiently and effectively working with multiple API vendors
How to work with vendors when their actions break your apps
Different types of responses (the good and the bad)
Writing tests
Using incremental backoffs
Working with rolling rate windows
Plus loads load more — including some vendor horror stories!

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Guests: Nils Adermann.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

Retries and Timeouts with Bastian Hofmann

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12/17/19 • 23 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Bastian Hofmann about handling retries and timeouts in PHP. Bastian shares a load of great advice, including:

Having dedicated hosts for certain traffic
Distinguishing between normal users and admin users
Offloading work to asynchronous jobs
Default socket timeouts and max execution times
Automatic retries
Tuning settings and rules of thumbs as to how to do so
Tooling for monitoring
Circuit breakers
Integrating monitoring into legacy codebases
Plus loads load more!

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Guests: Bastian Hofmann.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

How to Run PHP Applications on Multiple Servers

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12/03/19 • 46 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Robert Douglass and Larry Garfield from Platform.sh about running PHP applications on multiple servers. Robert and Larry share a load of excellent advice, including:

Why you need to use Load Balancers (along with what they are and some of the key options)

How PHP is exceptionally well suited to being deployed across multiple servers out of the box

How you can start deploying your PHP apps on multiple servers today

How to properly share files, data, cache, and sessions

Why sticky sessions are, often, a bad idea

How to handle workers and Cron jobs

Plus loads load more!

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Guests: Robert Douglass and Larry Garfield.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

PHP Performance with Marco Pivetta (ocramius)

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11/12/19 • 29 min

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Marco Pivetta (ocramius) about:

PHP 7.4's new preloading feature: what it is, how it works, the benefits and drawbacks of using it
The speed differences between different versions of PHP (especially in 7.x)
The difference between OPcache and Preloading
How Composer's autoloader may soon be a thing of the past

Notable Quotes

Composer is the mother of all frameworks.The (Composer) autoloader will gradually disappear.You wouldn't build a house and not check it for 10 years. It should be the same for software projects.Everything (in software development) is a trade-off.

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Guests: Marco Pivetta.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.

Thanks for tuning in to the Undercover ElePHPant. If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast or know someone very knowledgeable in writing highly performant and scalable PHP applications, email [email protected].

Talking Garbage Collection with Derick Rethans

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10/29/19 • 25 min

Thanks to PHP being an interpreted language and it that it has a garbage collector, PHP developers don't often have to think about memory management. Unlike developers in compiled languages, such as C/C++, we don't have to give that much thought to memory allocation and deallocation.

However, it's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.

In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew, talk with Derick Rethans about:

The basics of how garbage collection works in PHP
About how Xdebug and garbage collection in PHP came about
About some of the functions available for interacting with it
How to get the most out of garbage collection

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Guests: Derick Rethans.
Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei, and Matthew Setter.

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How many episodes does The Undercover ElePHPant have?

The Undercover ElePHPant currently has 11 episodes available.

What topics does The Undercover ElePHPant cover?

The podcast is about Php, Podcasts, Technology and Programming.

What is the most popular episode on The Undercover ElePHPant?

The episode title 'Taking a Summer Break' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Undercover ElePHPant?

The average episode length on The Undercover ElePHPant is 25 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Undercover ElePHPant released?

Episodes of The Undercover ElePHPant are typically released every 14 days, 6 hours.

When was the first episode of The Undercover ElePHPant?

The first episode of The Undercover ElePHPant was released on Oct 7, 2019.

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Benjamin Eberlei, Matthew Setter

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