Introduction For 32 years now, the venerable HTTP protocol has been at the heart of the Web. This protocol enables “resources” (anything that can be named can be a resource, but these are often documents) to be retrieved from a server using their unique identifier: their URL. Since 1991, the Web has exploded in popularity,…
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The PHP Revolution Is Underway: FrankenPHP 1.0 Beta
I’m very proud to announce the immediate availability of FrankenPHP 1.0 beta. FrankenPHP is a brand-new application server for PHP, written in Go and built on top of Caddy, that dramatically simplifies the deployment of PHP apps, and brings new features to PHP such as: FrankenPHP is available as a Docker image (Debian, Alpine, PHP…
Mercure 0.14: Major Performance Improvement and New Features
I’m very pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Mercure.rocks hub version 0.14. Mercure is a free and open-source solution for real-time communication. With Mercure, securely push data to all your connected users with a simple POST request. No third-party library or SDK is required: the browser (or any other type of client) receives…
Introducing Edge Side APIs (#APIPlatformCon Keynote)
Here are the slides I presented during my keynote at the API Platform Conference. I introduced a new API architecture inspired by Jamstack: Edge Side APIs (ESA). My colleague Antoine Bluchet gave another talk giving more details about how API Platform started implementing ESA: The talks have been recorded. They will be published in the…
The Mercure.rocks Hub is now based on Caddy Web Server
I’m very happy to announce the immediate availability of the Mercure.rocks Hub version 0.11! The Mercure.rocks Hub is a free software implementing the Mercure specification, an open protocol for fast, reliable and battery-efficient in-browser real-time communications. Version 0.11 is a major milestone for the project! As you may know, the Mercure.rocks Hub is written in…
Say Hello to Mercure 0.10!
I’m very excited to announce the immediate availability of the version 6 of the Mercure Internet Draft as well as of the version 0.10 of the reference implementation! Mercure is a real-time protocol built on top of Server-sent Events and leveraging HTTP/2+. It allows to push messages to JavaScript webapps, mobile apps or IoT devices…