PHP Talks #5

## Details

### 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
⏰ June 26th
🗓 Starting 6:30 pm
🇬🇧 Talks in English
🎟 Free
📍 WeWork, Paseo de Gracia: Passeig de Gràcia, 17, 08007 Barcelona
#### Talks
1. Topic: Slashing PHP-cli Memory Consumption: Proven Techniques for High-Performance Applications
Speaker: Max Fomichev, Infrastructure Engineer at Manychat
Struggling with high memory usage in long-running PHP CLI processes? While `php-cli` is great for bulk data handling, it lacks the memory optimizations of `php-fpm`—or does it?
This session explores PHP internals, shared memory, and Linux's copy-on-write to uncover surprising optimization opportunities in `php-cli`. Through a real-world Manychat case study, you'll see how we cut memory usage by 50% using `pcntl_fork()`—and how you can do the same. We'll also highlight key pitfalls to avoid when applying these techniques.
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: The PHP Foundation and What’s Next for PHP
Speaker: Roman Pronskiy, Executive Director at The PHP Foundation
More information to come.
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