Barcelona PHP Talks #4: Hardcore

Join the community of professional PHP developers at the meetup featuring two engineering topics.

Details

⏰ March 6th
🗓 Starting 6:30 pm
🇬🇧 Talks in English
🎟 Free
📍 WeWork, Paseo de Gracia: Passeig de Gràcia, 17, 08007 Barcelona

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
I'm Max. I have decades of experience in IT, primarily focused on programming in PHP and running Unix servers. For the past six years, I've been working at Manychat, a leading chat-marketing platform, where I combine the roles of an Infrastructure Engineer, SRE, and developer, optimizing our systems and ensuring reliability.

2. Topic: TBA
Speakers: TBA

Useful Links:

– Learn more about Manychat Engineering

– Careers at Manychat
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Pg. de Gràcia, 17, 17 Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona, Spain