PHP UK Conference 2014 - Ian Barber/Mandy Waite - Building Scalable PHP Apps With Google App Engine

This talk delves into the new PHP language runtime introduced for Google App Engine at Google I/O 2013. The speaker explores building and running highly scalable PHP applications on the App Engine platform, highlighting the differences between applications on App Engine and a typical LAMP stack. Key topics include deploying popular PHP frameworks, utilizing asynchronous calls for I/O requests, and leveraging App Engine services like task queues, memcache, and mail. Additionally, the speaker discusses how to compose applications using Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud SQL.