Hi! Iām Matthieu Napoli, open-source developer and consultant.
Iām the creator of Bref, the serverless framework for PHP, author of the Serverless Visually Explained course, and AWS serverless hero.
I believe running modern applications should be simpler, and Iām trying to do my part!
Bref runs PHP applications on AWS Lambda. Its runtime is the code that receives AWS Lambda events and passes them to your application, and it is written in PHP. While working on Bref v4, I wanted to know if rewriting it in Rust would make things faster. The answer is no, because the PHP code in Bref takes almost no time. This article is based on my notes from that experiment.
I've been hitting the 2,000 free minutes/month limit on GitHub Actions for my private repos. Instead of paying for more minutes, I set up self-hosted runners on my Mac Mini M4 running as a server at home. CI jobs are now 4x faster and I have unlimited minutes.
Celebrating 40 billion executions per month
This article is based on my notes after experimenting with caching as much as possible before deploying a Laravel application to AWS Lambda using Bref. The goal was to optimize AWS Lambda cold starts, without slowing down warm invocations.
Bref Cloud is built with Laravel and Inertia.js. Inertia.js connects Laravel with Vue.js, making everything related to routing, auth, state management, and more, much easier to handle. Inertia.js is awesome. However, there is one thing that I really dislike about it: how it handles server errors.
You can use FFmpeg with PHP on AWS Lambda. Here is how to do it with Bref.
