AmsterdamPHP Special PHPVerse Edition

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🎉 Special AmsterdamPHP Meetup – June 17th, 2025

Right after 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
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.