February 25-27, 2026
Montreal, Canada
Parallel Futures: Unlocking Multithreading in PHP
Ever faced a heavy computational task and thought, "Maybe PHP isn't the right tool for this"? Think again! With `ext-parallel`, multithreading is a reality in PHP. In this session, I'll show you how to use it to tackle demanding tasks, scale your applications, and unlock performance you didn’t think was possible, all without leaving PHP behind.
Florian Engelhardt
Datadog
Florian is married with five kids and likes to play table tennis, table football, chess, and MTG. He is also a software engineer and builds a PHP profiler at Datadog.
He started writing software on an IBM PS/2 30 286 in GW-BASIC back in 1993, throughout the 90s he learned HTML, JavaScript, Perl, C, and a bit of Assembler. It was September 2000 when he was introduced to PHP and he thought nobody would ever need it, but boy he was wrong.
