Liam Hammett
Future
I am a tech lead at Future plc, where I help manage millions of weekly requests for one of the largest publishing companies in the world. I deeply love the PHP ecosystem and am passionate about crafting tools and solutions that make all developers’ lives easier. Whether it’s improving the tooling you use to write your code, contributing to open source, or sharing the knowledge I learn day-to-day, my mission is to simplify complex workflows and improve productivity for development teams everywhere.
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Beyond Requests: Supercharging API Monitoring with Guzzle Middleware
Porter Tun - 11.15
Handling millions of API calls in production can be overwhelming. Everyone uses Guzzle, but in this talk we'll deep dive into using its underutilised middleware for efficient API monitoring. We’ll dive into logging with Kibana, error enhancement with Sentry, tracing with OpenZipkin and Jaeger, and making use of Prometheus metrics with Grafana, Alertmanager and KEDA. Drawing from my experience building an application that makes millions of API calls each week, you'll leave with actionable insights to keep your microservices and third-party APIs stable under pressure.