Custom Runtimes on AWS Lambda: My experience doing Serverless PHP by Ben Ellerby

When people think serverless they often associate it with Python and Javascript. The native support for languages on services like AWS Lambda has grown, but more excitingly innovative additions to serverless offerings like AWS Lambda Layers had allowed any language runtime to be used for a serverless service.

Recently I’ve architected the rebuild of a 10-year legacy system with a team unwilling to move from PHP. The main pains of the old system were the complex environment management, high AWS cost and lack of application code testing (that is a whole talk in itself!). To eliminate the complex operational complexity and AWS cost, a serverless architecture was been used (on AWS), using Lambda Layers to provide efficient performance of a PHP runtime.

In this talk, I will discuss the benefits and challenges of custom runtimes in the context of AWS lambda and how traditional PHP developers found the transition to serverless.

In addition to the runtime elements, I will discuss the architectural decisions of the project, ranging across endpoint granularity, error logging, testing, code sharing and deployment.

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