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Mastering PHP 7

You're reading from   Mastering PHP 7 Design, configure, build, and test professional web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785882814
Length 536 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The All New PHP FREE CHAPTER 2. Embracing Standards 3. Error Handling and Logging 4. Magic Behind Magic Methods 5. The Realm of CLI 6. Prominent OOP Features 7. Optimizing for High Performance 8. Going Serverless 9. Reactive Programming 10. Common Design Patterns 11. Building Services 12. Working with Databases 13. Resolving Dependencies 14. Working with Packages 15. Testing the Important Bits 16. Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling 17. Hosting, Provisioning, and Deployment

Using Iron.io IronWorker


Iron.io is a serverless job processing platform designed for high performance and concurrency. Built around Docker containers, the platform itself is language-agnostic. We can use it to run pretty much any programming language, including PHP. There are three main features of the Iron.io platform:

  • IronWorker: This is an elastic task/queue-like worker service that scales out processing
  • IronMQ: This is a message queueing service designed for distributed systems
  • IronCache: This is an elastic and durable key/value store

While we cannot run real-time PHP within the Iron.io platform, we could utilize its IronWorker feature for task/queue-like type of applications.

Assuming we have an Iron.io account opened and the Ubuntu server with Docker installed, we'll be able to follow the next steps outlining the IronWorker workflow.

We start by clicking the New Project button under the Iron.io dashboard. This opens up a simple screen, where all we need is to punch in the project name...

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