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• PHP's Oddities
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2026

  Try https://reactphp.org/ for job running. Use apc or memcached for persistent storage. Don't run jobs through web. Queuing things (you can start with a basic rdbma for your queue storage) and have a job runner fire them from a job runner. Can all be done in PHP. Have scaled it to billions per 24 hours.

• PHP async: event loop, Fibers and the limits of single-threading
  3 projects | dev.to | 13 May 2026

  ReactPHP is the library that implements this model in PHP. The simplest example to understand the mechanics:

• PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2026

  > What if you need to call multiple external APIs at once with complex json?

  A few years ago, I had a PHP project that had grown by accretion from taking a single complex input and triggering 2-3 external endpoints to eventually making calls to about 15 sequentially. Processing a single submission went from taking 5-10 seconds to over five minutes.

  This was readily solved by moving to ReactPHP (https://reactphp.org/), which implements async via event loops. I was able to reduce the 15 sequential external API calls to four sequential loops (which was the minimum number due to path dependencies in the sequence of operations). That reduced the five minutes back to an average of 20-30 seconds for the complete process.

  It wasn't using true multithreading, but in a situation where most of the time was just waiting for responses from remote servers, an event loop solution is usually more than sufficient.

• PHP: Do you need async?
  1 project | dev.to | 14 Nov 2025

  The Event Loop is not built-in. You either need to implement it or use a framework, such as ReactPHP.

• The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2025
• Exploring Coroutines in PHP
  1 project | dev.to | 5 Jul 2025

  Note: Because coroutines simply yield their control, you need a manager that determines which coroutine runs next. This is often implemented with something called an Event Loop, which will manage and schedule coroutines based on I/O events and timers. Out of the box, PHP does not provide this, but there are various projects like Revolt and ReactPHP that do. We will touch on them in a different post.

• Is PHP dead? No, it's evolving!
  1 project | dev.to | 5 Apr 2025

  Asynchronous programming: Natively, PHP now allows asynchronous approach with the use of Fibers. It lets you pause and resume functions or sections of a code without blocking your application. Fibers let you run concurrent PHP code unlike the traditional synchronous PHP code, where codes are run from top to bottom. ReactPHP is also an excellent library to write event-driven, asynchronous PHP code.

• Concurrency and parallelism in PHP (part 1)
  5 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2024

  Even though this Generator's side is quite obscure for most PHP developers, it has been extensively explored by well-known libraries, such as ReactPHP and AMPHP, which we will see later on.

• ReactPHP – Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2024
• ReactPHP: Event-driven, non-blocking I/O in pure PHP
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2024
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