Asynchronous PHP in examples

#slideless

Denys Bulakh

• Web Software Developer since 2002
• CTO at Regiondo GmbH
• Principal Engineer at Jochen Schweizer Mydays Group

Regiondo

• Booking software for Leisure activity providers
• PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Magento
• NodeJS, ReactJS, Kafka, k8, AWS

PHP is synchronous

• Responsiveness
• Multiprocessing
• Performance
• Concurrent requests
• Blocking I/O
• DB deadlocks

Solution?

• Queuing

• message broker

• Gearman, RabbitMq, Amazon SQS

• Promises

• event loop

• child processes

• coroutines

• multiprocessing

• ReactPHP

• Swoole

Example project

• Synchronous
• Simple dummy Booking system
• Generates bookings, tickets and registers tickets within external providers

Target state

• Asynchronous execution
• Parallel execution of concurrent external requests

Contact

• denys@bulakhweb.com
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/denisbulakh/
• https://github.com/denisbulakh