White Blue • 7/24/2019

Cloud native, container-ready PHP

This article defends PHP 7 as a robust, high-performance language for building cloud native applications, despite its historical criticisms. It highlights performance improvements over PHP 5, widespread usage, and design principles based on the 12-factor app methodology. The author discusses statelessness, horizontal scalability, containerization, and deployment on serverless platforms like Azure and AWS. It also addresses common anti-patterns in legacy PHP apps and offers guidance for writing modern, container-ready PHP code suitable for 2019 and beyond.

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