Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop (worker-owned cooperative). Creator of API Platform, FrankenPHP, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and of some Symfony components.
Mercure 1.0 is here in its first public preview, and it is the biggest release in the project s history! Mercure powers mission-critical real-time communication across hundreds of production deployments. It delivers Server-Sent Events over plain HTTP without requiring client SDKs. Version 1.0 maintains this architecture while modernizing core capabilities using newly established web standards:…
Mercure v0.23.5 just landed, and the dominant theme is the Helm chart. If you run hubs on Kubernetes, this release tightens defaults and adds the kind of policy templates that previously required forking the chart or templating policies outside it. The story behind the release: we audited a production Kubernetes cluster. The findings were straightforward... The post Mercure 0.23.5: Helm chart…
If we want to discuss Developer Experience (DX) in 2026, we have to talk about instantaneous feedback and coding agents. At SymfonyLive Paris 2026, I presented Coding at the Speed of Thought: Symfony DX in 2026 , where I detailed the bleeding-edge features we have brought to the PHP and Symfony ecosystems. To make this vision... The post Coding at the Speed of Thought: The New Era of Symfony…
It’s happening! I am thrilled to announce the immediate availability of official Windows support for FrankenPHP. Since the project s initial release, this has been by far the most requested feature. While many of you have been successfully running FrankenPHP on Windows via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), native support was the white whale we’ve been... The post Windows Support for FrankenPHP:…
Ho ho ho! 🎅 I’m thrilled to announce the immediate availability of FrankenPHP 1.11! We have a special gift for the PHP community to unwrap this Christmas Eve. This release is laser-focused on improving the Developer Experience (DX) and deepening the integration between PHP and the Go ecosystem. Here is what we put under the... The post Merry Christmas! FrankenPHP 1.11: Hot Reload, Structured…
I m thrilled to announce a brand-new feature I unveiled today during my opening keynote at the API Platform Conference: an experimental extension for FrankenPHP that brings gRPC support to PHP! 🚀 This extension allows you to build high-performance gRPC servers using PHP, Go, or even a mix of both. It leverages the power of FrankenPHP s... The post The Best of Both Worlds: Go-Powered gRPC for Your…
It s alive! After months of meticulous stitching, we re thrilled to announce the official release of the FrankenPHP elePHPant plushie! This isn t your average plushie—it s a grotesque yet charming creature, a patchwork of code and fluff, and the perfect companion for those late-night coding sessions. Dare to adopt this creature of the night? Here’s how to... The post Unleash the Monster: The…
FrankenPHP has just reached 10,000 ⭐️ on GitHub! This important milestone was reached just a few months after the project joined the PHP Foundation, thanks to the hard work of the maintainers and contributors, those who spread the word about the project, and everyone who tested it and reported bugs. A big thank you to... The post FrankenPHP has reached 10,000 stars: the elePHPant plush toy is…
FrankenPHP 1.5 and 1.6 (released today) contain many major features and fixes that greatly improve the usability and performance of the project! Let’s review some of them. Thread Autoscaling Until now, it was necessary to statically define the number of threads that FrankenPHP uses to handle PHP requests. By default, FrankenPHP starts two times more... The post FrankenPHP’s New Features: Thread…
FrankenPHP, a modern high-performance PHP application server created by Kévin Dunglas and sponsored by Les-Tilleuls.coop, is now officially supported by the PHP Foundation. FrankenPHP integrates PHP directly into Go and Caddy, simplifying deployment, improving performance, and reducing costs. It powers real-time features, supports advanced hosting scenarios, and offers a performance-boosting…