php

In the last couple years RPC started to become popular again as a communication mechanism for web-based APIs. It’s not a new concept at all, but it changed a lot over the years: the technology evolved, new IDLs and frameworks (like protobuf and gRPC) appeared. TwirPHP tries to bring this new tech to PHP by porting Twirp, Twitch’s “simple RPC framework built on protobuf”.

Recently I was tasked with deploying and operating a Symfony application on Kubernetes. Since PHP is not my primary area of work anymore, I was hoping to find some up to date guide and/or best practices about the topic, but sadly that wasn’t the case at all, so I decided to write about the process of containerizing the application, building up the infrastructure and deploying it on Kubernetes.

It’s been almost a year since we released the first stable version of HTTPlug so I felt like it’s time to look back on what we’ve done so far and what’s still ahead of us.