Software Engineer in Test. I search for the harmony between form and context, which is a fancy way of saying I build software to fit in the world I’m in and all the forces around it.

In the specific, my areas of expertise are testing, architecture and distributed computing.

@giorgiosironi

Talk: Long running PHP processes (Lightning)

PHP has outgrown being a simple Apache module, being used on the command line not just for development tools but also in production. Long-running PHP processes may live for hours or days consuming messages from queues or background jobs to execute; this talk will guide you through several years of tweaks to make them reliable and performant. There are many things that can go wrong when leaving a PHP process around on your servers, but it is possible to solve the problems of crashing, memory leaks, interruptions, lost logs, or monitoring. The goal of having smooth operations has to be kept in mind - scaling your servers and traffic without scaling the people needed to look after them.