PHP Talks #4: Hardcore

Let's gather to grow the Barcelona PHP Talks community together 🚀.

Join the community of professional PHP developers at the meetup featuring two engineering topics.
Details
⏰ March 13th
🗓 Starting 6:30 pm
🇬🇧 Talks in English
🎟 Free
📍 WeWork, Paseo de Gracia: Passeig de Gràcia, 17, 08007 Barcelona

Talks
1. Topic: Achieving High-Performance HTTP in PHP Without Threads: Simulating Parallel Requests

Speaker: Max Fomichev, Manychat
Your PHP app talks to multiple APIs, but its single-threaded nature keeps you waiting. What if you could handle thousands of requests in parallel—without threads, extra processes, or switching languages?
In this session, I’ll show you how to bend PHP to your will with cURL, Guzzle, and smart state management. We’ll dive into non-blocking requests, state serialization, and efficient response handling—all within PHP’s native ecosystem.
Struggling with slow APIs, rate limits, or wasted resources? This talk will change how you think about PHP concurrency.

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: Escalate microservices with gRPC and PHP
Speakers: Lucas Giovanny, Worksome
This talk dives into how gRPC can enhance communication and scalability in microservices. We’ll explore the seamless integration of gRPC into PHP, showing practical ways to build high-performance, scalable microservices. Expect actionable insights and techniques to take your microservices architecture to the next level.

About the Speaker
Lucas is an experienced software engineer with over a decade of experience in PHP and frameworks such as Laravel and Symfony. He is passionate about contributing to open-source projects and has made significant contributions to well-known packages and frameworks like Laravel Core, Pest PHP, and Filament PHP. In addition to his open-source work, Lucas has had the opportunity to speak at meetups and conferences such as 🇵🇹 Laracon EU 2023, 🇬🇧 Laravel Live UK 2023, 🇧🇪 FullStack EU 2023, 🇩🇰 Laravel Live DK and the upcoming 🇮🇳 Laracon India 2025.

Thanks to Manychat to host the meetup
– Learn more about Manychat Engineering
– Careers at Manychat