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Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Jul 24, 2015

Multi-Process PHP

Let’s talk about asynchronous PHP code. There are more ways to make PHP code execute asynchronously and in parallel than there are reasons you can think of for wanting to do it in the first place.

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Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Mar 21, 2015

Reactive PHP Events

Distributed. Asynchronous. Magical.

A few days ago, our lovely Development Manager asked me to share at Show and Tell. It’s a Friday-event where a couple of people, here at SilverStripe, talk a bit about some of the recent work they’ve done.

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Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Mar 27, 2015

Co-operative PHP Multitasking

When is an array like an adventure?

Last week I got the opportunity to share recent work with my colleagues, at SilverStripe. I was going to present Async PHP today, but since I covered ReactPHP last week; I decided to talk…

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Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Dec 29, 2014

Sockets In Your API

Given the case for asynchronous PHP, you may be keen to try it but unsure where to start. Perhaps you’ve been working on an API, and you want to add socket support. Let me show you how!

You can find the code on Github. You can find the discussion on Reddit. You should…

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Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Aug 18, 2015

Event Loops

Multi-Process PHP

The post is going to be a bit of a mixed bag. I’ve been working on a parallel-execution library, and I want to look at how it can be used with an event loop. Before that though, I want to look at a few parallel-execution libraries intended to be used…

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Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Dec 30, 2014

Gearman In Your Sockets

Creating reactive applications is hard. As a community, we PHP developers have been writing blocking code behind web servers like Apache and Nginx, for ages. We’re just not used to using the event-loop and reducing/removing blocking IO.

Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Dec 28, 2014

A Case For Async PHP

As PHP developers, we’ve been conditioned to fear sockets. “PHP scripts should die quickly”; some say. Still others; “Why don’t you use Node for that?”.

The problem is that these arguments shut down any attempts to evolve core PHP, and the surrounding ecosystem.

Christopher Pitt in Async PHP

Aug 15, 2015

Multi-Process PHP

Grouped Execution

A while ago I wrote about using exec and shell commands to manage multiple PHP processes. One of the questions that came up was; “how does this differ from what’s out there?”

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