Name: AmsterdamPHP Special PHPVerse Edition
Start: 2025-06-17T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-17T20:30:00+02:00
Location: Café-Restaurant Dauphine

*\- And we have a waiting list\! \-*
*Don’t worry and **sign up anyway**. We typically see about 25% of attendees drop out in the days leading up to the event, so if you join the waiting list now, there’s a very good chance you’ll get a spot.*

**🎉 Special AmsterdamPHP Meetup – June 17th, 2025**

Right after **[PHPVerse 2025](https://lp.jetbrains.com/phpverse-2025/)**, we’re keeping the momentum going with two of the speakers at a special edition of AmsterdamPHP! Join us for an evening of community, code, and conversation, featuring some of the most influential voices in the PHP ecosystem.

🧁 *We’re also celebrating 30 years of PHP!* Come raise a slice of pizza to the language that keeps on shipping.

*Please note: this special AmsterdamPHP is organized on Tuesday the 17th, not our usual third Thursday.*

**📍 Location:**
Café Restaurant Dauphine
Prins Bernhardplein 175, 1097 BL Amsterdam

**🕒 Program:**

* 18:30 — Doors open (food is served)
* 19:20 — Event start
* 19:30 — First talk
* 20:10 — Panel discussion: *The Past and Future of PHP*
* 21:00–22:00 — Socials

**🎤 Guests include:**

* *Nils Adermann* (Co-Founder, Packagist)
* *Nicolas Grekas* (Core Developer, Symfony)
…and other familiar faces from PHPVerse!

This is a **free event**, open to everyone.

**🍕 Pizza, great conversations, and PHP history in the making.** Don’t miss it!

**First talk: The Manychat Story: Scaling Facebook webhooks from zero to 25,000 requests per second with PHP**

Every great platform starts with a small idea and grows into something extraordinary. In this talk, I'll share the inspiring journey of Manychat and how we scaled Facebook webhook handling from very humble numbers to a system processing 25,000 requests per second — all powered by PHP, all while operating on minimal resources. Whether you're working on a startup or managing a high-traffic system, this session will inspire you to see the full potential of PHP in scaling your own projects.

*Aleksandr Nasedkin, Engineering Lead (Backend) at Manychat*

**Second talk: Panel discussion about the past and future of PHP**
Nils Adermann, Nicolas Grekas ....

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**Thanks to our sponsor: [Manychat](https://manychat.com/)**
*Manychat is a leading Chat Marketing platform. As an official Meta Business Partner, we help businesses engage with their customers on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Telegram.*

*Sharing knowledge — it’s how we grow, learn, and give back to the engineering community. From speaking at meetups and conferences to supporting The PHP Foundation and hosting PHP Talks meetups in Europe.*

*Learn more about Manychat's engineering team [here](https://careers.manychat.com/team/engineering).*

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