Barcelona PHP Talks #5: What’s Next for PHP?

🚀 Roman Pronskiy, Executive Director of the PHP Foundation, is coming to town. Hear firsthand what’s next for PHP—from the man steering its future.

🔧 Max Fomichev, Infrastructure Engineer at Manychat, will walk us through an advanced, real-world case study: slashing memory consumption by 50% in long-running PHP CLI apps. Expect deep insights into pcntl_fork(), Linux internals, and the quirks of php-cli.

Whether you're building the next high-performance app or just care where PHP is headed—this is the room to be in.

Details

⏰ June 26th
🗓 Starting 6:30 pm
🇬🇧 Talks in English
🎟 Free
📍 WeWork, Paseo de Gracia: Passeig de Gràcia, 17, 08007 Barcelona

1. Topic: Slashing PHP-cli Memory Consumption: Proven Techniques for High-Performance Applications
Speaker: Max Fomichev, Infrastructure Engineer at Manychat

Struggling with high memory usage in long-running PHP CLI processes? While php-cli is great for bulk data handling, it lacks the memory optimizations of php-fpm—or does it?

This session explores PHP internals, shared memory, and Linux's copy-on-write to uncover surprising optimization opportunities in php-cli. Through a real-world Manychat case study, you'll see how we cut memory usage by 50% using pcntl_fork()—and how you can do the same. We'll also highlight key pitfalls to avoid when applying these techniques.

About the Speaker
Max has decades of experience in IT, primarily focused on programming in PHP and running Unix servers. For the past six years, he has been working at Manychat, a leading chat-marketing platform, where I combine the roles of an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, and developer, optimizing systems and ensuring reliability.

2. Topic: The PHP Foundation and What’s Next for PHP
Speaker: Roman Pronskiy, Executive Director at The PHP Foundation

More information to come soon.

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– Learn more about Manychat Engineering

– Careers at Manychat

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