Re: Discussion - PHP with distributed programming features.

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:38 PM juan carlos morales <dev.juan.morales@gmail.com> wrote: > > Imagine a request comes to NgInx, then we process the request in PHP > .... suddenly while execution of PHP is running, we dont have more > resources in the server , so we need to process that PHP code on other > server with more resources. > > How can we "move" the complete PHP process to another server with more > resources and then send back the result ? > > this is like having a distributed php infrastructure, behaving in a dynamic way. > > how can we achieve something like this? > > or maybe one piece of code needs to run in another server because of > resources or something like that, like a function for example, only > running one function in a different host and then come back to the > mother one. > > My question is .... what do we need to provide PHP some functionality > like the distributed programming languages? > > It could be achieve with long running PHP instances and using MPI for > example (I imagine) but ... ideas on this ? Maybe I am crazy > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: https://www.php.net/unsub.php > You mean, like an API call to an instance running on another machine? I imagine that's the simple, non-technical solution. To what you're imagining (I think), I've been working on DurablePHP (https://github.com/bottledcode/durable-php) which can already kinda do that (using fibers to execute code elsewhere, then return back -- or not). It's nowhere near production-ready, but its a fun project and already running some interesting toy-projects around the house. But it has a number of issues left to iron out (particularly around the serialization of exceptions and migrating workloads from hot-shards). For an MVP/POC of the idea, it works pretty well. Robert Landers Software Engineer Utrecht NL