In this episode, Benjamin and Matthew talk with Bastian Hofmann about handling retries and timeouts in PHP. Bastian shares a load of great advice, including:

• Having dedicated hosts for certain traffic
• Distinguishing between normal users and admin users
• Offloading work to asynchronous jobs
• Default socket timeouts and max execution times
• Automatic retries
• Tuning settings and rules of thumbs as to how to do so
• Tooling for monitoring
• Circuit breakers
• Integrating monitoring into legacy codebases
• Plus loads load more!

Links

• SysEleven GmbH
• DataDog
• NewRelic
• statsd
• Istio
• linkerd
• Kubernetes

Guests: Bastian Hofmann.

Hosted By: Benjamin Eberlei and Matthew Setter.

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