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Getting Started with Serverless PHP
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2 Heya! 2 I’m Carl Alexander @twigpress carlalexander.ca
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“Servers. Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them.” - PHP developer (when a server blows up)
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Server management
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Still responsible
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Platform as a service
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Still need to over provision
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Serverless addresses these problems
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1 What Is Serverless?
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“Are there really no servers with serverless!?” - Literally everyone I mention serverless to
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Marketing term
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Functions as a Service
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On-demand computing
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Upload code to a cloud provider
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Code gets executed in response to an event
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No mention of servers
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Outside your sphere of concerns
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2How Serverless PHP Works
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PHP with a web server
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How does serverless PHP compare?
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Both run code in response to an event
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So what’s different?
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Not just PHP that runs without a server
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Everything is serverless
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Service based architecture
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PHP runtime?
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Unique element of serverless PHP
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What does it do?
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Processes lambda event
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Figures out what the event wants
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Sends a result back (HTTP response)
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Mimics a web server
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Request a file, returns a file
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Creates FastCGI request, sends it to PHP-FPM
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Also manages the PHP-FPM process
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Stops the Lambda function after X requests
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Only one PHP-FPM worker
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Lambda only handles one event at a time
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Why PHP-FPM?
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Faster to have a running PHP process
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3Advantages of serverless PHP
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No servers to manage
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Not everyone is comfortable with servers
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Still responsible
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PaaS solves this issue
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New problem. Scaling.
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Slow or not automated
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Each Lambda function is a PHP worker
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Scaling in seconds not minutes
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Need to plan for the worst with servers
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How much would that cost?
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None of that with serverless
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Usage based pricing
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Pay when your workers run
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Charged by the millisecond
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externals.io
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$50/m -> $~17/m ($16/m is RDS)
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4Drawbacks of Serverless PHP
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Less predictable cost
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Paying for a server feels safe
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$X/month
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Need more performance? Pay more!
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How many requests? Average duration?
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Stressful and harder to budget for
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Costs less
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What happens with constant load?
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Serverless not as attractive
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Possible to maximize server usage
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Optimal server might cost less
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AWS lock-in
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Why not Azure or GCP?
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Not interchangeable
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Not just Lambda
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Need other services
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Equivalent ≠ Same
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Energy with AWS
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Final note
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Tempting to only compare cost
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“Serverless is expensive. I could just get a $5/month droplet from DigitalOcean.” - Someone comfortable with servers
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Dishonest
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Intangible costs
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Mental health
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Your time
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Be honest when you evaluate both options
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?Questions
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5Tools and Projects
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Where do you start?
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98 Bref 7 https://bref.sh
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Open source project
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Mathieu Napoli
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PHP runtime
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Integrates with Symfony & Laravel
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Deploy with Serverless framework
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Extensive documentation
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105 Laravel Vapor 7 https://vapor.laravel.com
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Builds off Bref
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Deploys serverless Laravel applications
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Manages your entire serverless infrastructure
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Good documentation
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serverlesslaravelcourse.com
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Paid product ($39/m + AWS bill)
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113 7 Ymir https://ymirapp.com
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- Carl Alexander 👋 “This is amazing! I need to build this for WordPress.”
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Vapor for WordPress
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Does WordPress specific things
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HTML caching at edge
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Image optimizing CDN
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Same cost as Vapor
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120 Sidecar 7 https://github.com/ hammerstonedev/sidecar (Bonus!)
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6Back to Simplicity
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PHP is so easy to use
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Hosting used to be simpler
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Serverless is deploy and forget
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Levels playing field
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?Questions
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127 Thank you! 2 @twigpress carlalexander.ca joind.in/talk/f8b79