Asynchronous PHP

Series of examples to demonstrate asynchronous PHP for the talk State of Async PHP.

Running the examples

After running composer install, in the terminal just type in: php examples/{your-prefered-example-file.php} This will run the given example.

For Laravel Octane Server Demo

Github Link.

For Swoole Examples

Install Swoole from here.

Presentation Video Link

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j04kDO7kVFY

Presentation Slide Link

Slides: https://slides.com/saadbinamjad/state-of-async-php

Benchmarking Tool

wrk - a HTTP benchmarking tool wrk.

Awesome Resources

I highly recommend these resources on Asynchronous Programming and Asynchronous PHP. You can go through these video and reading materials for having more in-depth knowledge on this topic, this is a growing list:

• PHP 25 years: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/php-25/
• Guzzle: https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/
• Spatie: https://github.com/spatie/async
• ReactPHP: https://reactphp.org/
• Amp PHP: https://amphp.org/amp/
• Swoole: https://www.swoole.co.uk/how-it-works
• Roadrunner: https://roadrunner.dev/
• Octane: https://github.com/laravel/octane

Youtube Videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKQcUDEo-ZI
• https://youtu.be/2vKnGX-bIu0
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhP0XWakCSo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpmnVDYwr_g&t=223s
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_nGKTxpXR4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoDBtz5P8q8
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEKjSzIwAdA

Articles:

• https://divinglaravel.com/asynchronous-php
• https://nodejs.org/en/docs/guides/dont-block-the-event-loop/
• https://www.backblaze.com/blog/whats-the-diff-programs-processes-and-threads/
• https://www.perforce.com/blog/qac/multithreading-parallel-programming-c-cpp
• https://eloquentjavascript.net/11_async.html
• https://www.zend.com/blog/swoole
• https://php.watch/versions/8.1/fibers
• https://sergeyzhuk.me/2021/03/03/myths-about-asynchronous-php/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Asynchronous/Concepts
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2011/october/asynchronous-programming-async-performance-understanding-the-costs-of-async-and-await
• https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/208469/benchmark-of-asynchronous-code
• https://engagedphp.com/2019/03/multithreaded-processing-with-swoole/
• https://medium.com/trendyol-tech/concurrency-and-channels-in-go-bbc4dea75286
• https://medium.com/@itIsMadhavan/concurrency-vs-parallelism-a-brief-review-b337c8dac350

Misc:

• Ramsay's 10 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrNLvCO2tE4