Johan Janssens

Johan Janssens

Johan is a passionate enterprise architect, web developer, platform engineer and free software advocate. He is driven to create through building, connecting, and automating “things” to design fun powerful new digital experiences using open technologies.

Johan is most known as co-founder of Joomla and he was lead developer of Joomla 1.5. In the past 20 years Johan has spent most his time creating and advocating free and open source software and helping evolve the world wide web.

Montreal 2023 sessions

Asynchronous programming with PHP and OpenSwoole

English session - Intermediate

OpenSwoole is a PHP extension that allows to build high-performance, async multi-tasking web services with PHP. It offers a very lightweight Coroutine API to that allows to create thousands coroutines within one Linux process.

It offers a range of multi-threaded I/O modules (HTTP Server, WebSockets, TaskWorkers, Process Pools) out of the box and support for popular PHP clients like PDO and CURL.






Multiprocess PHP Containers with S6 Overlay

English session - Advanced

In the pre-container era, the most common way of running PHP applications was with Nginx + PHP-FPM, with containers this is harder as you need two processes: Nginx and PHP-FPM.

S6 Overlay can help to manage multi-process applications in a container - it takes the burden of security aspects, signal handling, configuration and log management off your shoulders & make your code more readable!