Barcelona PHP Talks #6: AI in PHP. FrankenPHP

🚀 Artem Terekhin, Senior Backend Engineer with 10 years of experience

🔧 Adrián Pastén Lagos, I'm a developer with 10 years of experience working right now with PHP with Symfony and Laravel backend , VueJs and Angular in the frontend.

Details

⏰ November 27th
🗓 Starting 6:30 pm
🇬🇧 Talks in English
🎟 Free
📍NN Working. Carrer de Pau Claris, 194, L'Eixample, 08037 Barcelona (4th floor)

1. Topic: From Assistants to Function Calls: The Evolution of AI in Our PHP Product
Speaker: Artem Terekhin, Senior Backend Engineer at Manychat

A practical account of evolving our PHP–OpenAI integration from Assistant API to Completion API with Function Calls. Focus on architecture choices, sync/async trade-offs, and how simplification reduced cost and improved reliability.

About the Speaker
I am passionate about solving complex problems and building efficient processes. In my free time, you can find me playing my guitar, travelling, gaming or enjoying art.

2. Topic: How Fast Can the Monster Go? FrankenPHP Performance & Scalability on Kubernetes (k6 Benchmarks)
Speaker: Adrián Pastén Lagos, Software Engineer at Apiumhub

FrankenPHP promises to revolutionize PHP performance with its modern Go-powered architecture. But how fast can it really go?
In this talk, we'll deploy FrankenPHP on Kubernetes and put it through its paces using k6 load testing. Expect real benchmarks, scalability tests, and practical insights on whether this "monster" lives up to the hype.
Bring your questions—we're testing performance, not theories!

About the Speaker
I'm a self-taught person with a lot interest in new technologies learning about Web Apps and Electronics devices, so I'm always open to learn new things doesn't matter what it is, is more important what are you are using for.

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