Bref vs. Laravel Vapor for building serverless apps in PHP | ft Matthieu Napoli

Ep #109 of the Real-World Serverless podcast

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In this episode, I spoke with Matthieu Napoli about the Bref framework for developing serverless applications in PHP - how it works, why PHP and how it compares with Laravel Vapor.

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Bref framework https://bref.sh

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Sections:
0:00 Intro
1:10 Matthieu's journey to serverless
3:24 PHP's request life cycle
5:37 Does Bref ship with a custom PHP runtime?
7:58 Demo of Bref
15:09 Sponsor message
15:51 Does Bref support Lambdaliths?
24:30 Bref vs. Laravel Vapor
39:39 What's the observability story with Bref?
43:33 PHP's cold start performance
48:43 How traffic patterns determine cold start frequency
52:00 Outro