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 = ❤️

I have a Laravel app running serverless with @brefphp and generating PDF via chrome on Lambda. I added X-Ray to visualize it: 1 - the HTTP route (Laravel controller) invokes the pdf function synchronously and passes it a URL to render 2 - the "pdf-renderer" function starts chromium, opens the URL, exports it to PDF, and uploads it to S3 3 - the HTTP route returns a temporary signed URL to the S3 file This specific scenario is synchronous (~1s) because the PDF is live generated. When possible the PDF is generated asynchronously in a Laravel job. With that approach I write PDF templates with blade, it renders exactly the same locally or in Lambda (easy to test), never have to worry about scaling, and pay per PDF generated (about 0.004 cents/PDF)

TIL about @brefphp's CloudWatch log formatter, 👋 Monolog's built in JSON formatter.

New UI in Bref Cloud to go through Laravel failed jobs: list, retry, clear…

New Bref documentation page: Cold Starts bref.sh/docs/environme… (should have done it years ago but better late than never)

.@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…