Building a blazing fast gRPC Service with PHP

In early 2022 we decided to use gRPC for building a server API for a new desktop application project. A perfect opportunity to evaluate a new PHP framework called Spiral and its ecosystem driven by Roadrunner, an application server written in Go. We were absolutely astounded by the framework's concepts and code quality. Not to mention the speed – server requests take less than 2 ms, and that's including database queries.

This talk gives you a quick rundown of the Spiral framework's concepts and demonstrates how easy it is to build a gRPC endpoint with Spiral and go from the first Protobuf file to a fully working service.