PHP Serverless Profiles Podcast
Serverless profiles with a PHP point of view.
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#6 - Plain English Look At FrankenPHP
December 17, 2025 (30:34)
This is my podcast version of my Laravel Toronto presentation of the same name. This is an attempt to summarize my learning so far about FrankenPHP, in a way that does not use a lot of tech talk....
#5 - PHP-FPM: Bringing Out Linux's Inner Child
December 10, 2025 (27:58)
Before continuing my journey into FrankenPHP, it is important to tie up my loose ends of not understanding PHP-FPM. In this episode, I finally tie up this loose end, starting with the Linux child process....
#4 - FrankenPHP: Working through Frustration
December 03, 2025 (13:58)
I discovered that my frustration with FrankenPHP is shared. Now, I do not feel so bad about my frustrations. If you are frustrated too, join the club. Let us go then, and make our journey....
#3 - Boosting Deployments
August 27, 2025 (09:13)
Vercel's new v0.app platform inspired my imagination to conjure up a future direct connection between generating Laravel Framework based coding with Laravel Cloud. Plus, I do not consider the v0.app a strictly serverless platform....
#2 - A Look At Bref Cloud
June 15, 2025 (06:55)
The FOSS Bref Project was critical in getting me over-the-hump with figuring out how to use PHP with Lambda. This success with PHP+Lambda got me into PHP Serverless.I am eager to profile serverless platforms and technologies not named Amazon/Goog...


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Luke Galea is a veteran technology leader who began coding professionally during the dot-com boom. While Ruby, Elixir, and Erlang are his tools of choice, PHP has remained a constant thread throughout his two-decade career spanning healthcare, dating, nutrition coaching, education, and workforce management. His journey includes scaling high volume consumer facing sites HotOrNot and Ashley Madison where PHP powered the core infrastructure. Even when working with other technologies, Luke has consistently leveraged PHP for marketing technology, community forums, and developer resources. A committed community builder, he founded Toronto's Erlang user group and actively supports the Toronto Elixir and GTA PHP communities. Currently focused on leadership coaching and technology advisory, Luke loves solving hard problems with smart people. Call him if you want to riff on something awesome.
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Luke Galea is a veteran technology leader who began coding professionally during the dot-com boom. While Ruby, Elixir, and Erlang are his tools of choice, PHP has remained a constant thread throughout his two-decade career spanning healthcare, dating, nutrition coaching, education, and workforce management. His journey includes scaling high volume consumer facing sites HotOrNot and Ashley Madison where PHP powered the core infrastructure. Even when working with other technologies, Luke has consistently leveraged PHP for marketing technology, community forums, and developer resources. A committed community builder, he founded Toronto's Erlang user group and actively supports the Toronto Elixir and GTA PHP communities. Currently focused on leadership coaching and technology advisory, Luke loves solving hard problems with smart people. Call him if you want to riff on something awesome.
(Luke Galea's website)
Tolga Ercan is an accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience leading high-performing engineering organizations across SaaS, fintech, and consumer technology sectors. He currently serves as Director of Engineering at Vetster, a veterinary telehealth platform redefining access to pet care through innovative digital solutions. Tolga has built a career scaling engineering teams, driving cloud migration strategies, and delivering resilient, scalable systems. His leadership experience includes senior roles at Instagram, Edmunds, and early-stage startups, where he has consistently championed technical excellence, operational efficiency, and cultural growth. He has also leveraged technologies such as Laravel to build and scale modern, customer-facing applications in startup environments, applying best practices in software architecture and agile development. As a supporter of the open source community, Tolga believes in the importance of open innovation and actively backs initiatives that advance software transparency, interoperability, and access. He is committed to fostering the future of technology through mentorship, organizational leadership, and community engagement.
Tolga Ercan
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Tolga Ercan is an accomplished technology executive with over two decades of experience leading high-performing engineering organizations across SaaS, fintech, and consumer technology sectors. He currently serves as Director of Engineering at Vetster, a veterinary telehealth platform redefining access to pet care through innovative digital solutions. Tolga has built a career scaling engineering teams, driving cloud migration strategies, and delivering resilient, scalable systems. His leadership experience includes senior roles at Instagram, Edmunds, and early-stage startups, where he has consistently championed technical excellence, operational efficiency, and cultural growth. He has also leveraged technologies such as Laravel to build and scale modern, customer-facing applications in startup environments, applying best practices in software architecture and agile development. As a supporter of the open source community, Tolga believes in the importance of open innovation and actively backs initiatives that advance software transparency, interoperability, and access. He is committed to fostering the future of technology through mentorship, organizational leadership, and community engagement.
(Tolga Ercan's website)