Bref

Bref is 4 years old today! ▸ 118 contributors ▸ 118 releases ▸ 300 community members in Slack ▸ 3k downloads/day ▸ 1 billion requests processed each week PHP + AWS Lambda = ❤️

.@brefphp v3😮

Bref 3 is released 🎉 Since its creation, Bref has served 1.2 trillion requests and jobs! ▸ simpler & lighter runtimes ▸ PHP 8.5 ▸ improved observability (logs & tracing) ▸ simpler Laravel onboarding ▸ postgres & redis built-in and more ⤵ bref.sh/news/03-bref-3…

Working on Bref v3 release for tomorrow 🤞

Improved Bref docs on a quick win: cleanup the AWS SDK before deployment #reducing-package-size" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bref.sh/docs/deploy#re… (btw could also be useful if you deploy your app on a server)

New UI to configure private networks in bref.sh/cloud credits to @nunowar for the page design

thank you @depotdev for all the build time saved 🙏

I created the Serverless Visually Explained course 6 years ago. It's now free! If you want concrete JS and PHP examples, with live animations, and no-bullshit explanations on what serverless is, you can click and read. serverless-visually-explained.com

Improving the UX/UI for @brefphp. The new Network page is shaping up good 🎨✨

Application diagrams are live in Bref Cloud ✨ They'll help understand how serverless applications run in AWS: - CloudFront CDN - S3 for assets - PHP runs on Lambda - SQS queues… Metrics are live: requests, latency, scaling, errors… beautiful design by @nunowar!

Loved designing and implementing these Vue.js diagrams for @brefphp. Building them was the perfect way to dive deeper into the serverless world.

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I often get asked about the differences between serverless and containers/servers I updated @brefphp docs to be much more upfront about what to expect to migrate to serverless. Am I missing something? What's unclear?

From a concept designed in @figma to a live implementation with @tailwindcss and @vuejs. Enjoying working with @matthieunapoli on this project for @brefphp 🌤️✨

That moment when you learn that one of the most well known and respected company on the internet uses Bref… but that they don't allow sharing the name 🥹

New: run Laravel Tinker in AWS Lambda 🎉

New post: Optimizing Laravel cold starts on AWS Lambda I looked into pre-compiling opcache before deploying mnapoli.fr/optimizing-lar…

That moment when you finally merge a 2 year old pull request 👨‍🍳 github.com/brefphp/aws-la…

I've been deep into @brefphp v3 refactors, migrations, improvements… Feels so good when benchmarks show cold starts keep getting shorter 😌

I am sure glad that GitHub has a generous free tier for open-source, and that @depotdev is graciously sponsoring @brefphp builds… and making them 10 times faster 💙💙

A common mistake with migrations to Bref is setting AWS access keys in env variables. That's not needed: AWS Lambda automatically provides access keys. It's more secure as these creds are granular, temporary, and rotated. Documented that in a new page: bref.sh/docs/environme…