International PHP Conference

08/09/2026

🏗️ Want to make better architecture decisions — and know how to explain them?

The Software Architecture Camp prepares you for the iSAQB® CPSA-F® certification while giving you practical skills you can use directly in your projects.

Your trainers Richard Wallintin and Markus Geiger bring hands-on software architecture experience directly into the camp.

💡 Understand architecture fundamentals
🧩 Design modular & maintainable systems
📐 Explore DDD, Microservices & Design Patterns
📝 Document decisions effectively
🔍 Evaluate architecture quality

The four-week program is fully online and designed to fit alongside your job.

📅 September 14 – October 9, 2026 | 🌐 Online

👉 Take the next step toward becoming a stronger software architect:
https://devm.io/software-architecture-camp/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sales

An intensive camp for developers and architects. Learn modern software architecture through hands-on sessions and real-world scenarios.

08/09/2026

🚀 Don’t let CI/CD slow down your AI-powered development

LLMs can generate code at incredible speed — but that also means more changes, more pipeline runs and more noise.

At Munich, Arne Blankerts shows you how to reshape CI/CD for the age of AI:
⚡ get valuable feedback earlier
🔄 shorten iteration loops
🧠 reduce redundant work
🚀 keep delivery moving at AI speed

📅 Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | 🕘 11:00 - 11:45 | IPC | 📍 Munich

👉 Discover the session:
https://phpconference.com/trends-gen-ai/ai-development-llm-ci-cd/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

07/09/2026

🎙️ How do you protect the PHP ecosystem after 30 years of evolution?

Michael Dowden sits down with Sebastian Bergmann in this Signals episode to talk about what’s next for PHPUnit — and why secure dependencies are becoming essential for every developer.

🧪 Fighting flaky tests with PHPUnit 13.3
🔐 Improving dependency hygiene
⚠️ Tackling software supply chain threats
🐘 Looking at PHP after 30 years

▶️ Watch “30 Years of PHP: Guarding the Core Infrastructure” on devmio:
https://devm.io/signals-podcast/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

07/09/2026

🔥 Your legacy PHP app doesn’t need a risky rewrite

Modernization can happen step by step — without stopping development or replacing everything at once.

In “Modernizing PHP Legacy Apps: Strangler Fig, ACL & Parallel Models” on devmio, Leszek Prabucki shows you how proven patterns can help you:
🌱 replace legacy functionality gradually
🛡️ keep old models out of your new architecture
🔄 run old and new solutions side by side
🧪 make modernization safer with tests

👉 Discover a more pragmatic way to tackle legacy PHP:
https://devm.io/php/php-legacy-apps-modernize?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

Rewriting your whole legacy PHP application can be really risky and heroic. With PHP 8 and a handful of well‑proven modernization patterns, you can evolve safely while the business keeps running. This article outlines a pragmatic approach I’ve used in production—Strangler Fig, Anti‑Corruptio...

04/09/2026

🤖 Did your AI agent get better — or just different?

At Munich, Tobias Schlitt shows you how to evaluate agentic CLIs with harbor and spot regressions before they reach your workflow.

🧪 run reproducible evaluations
🔍 uncover regressions
📊 compare agent performance
⚙️ build more reliable AI-powered workflows

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

👉 Discover the session:
https://phpconference.com/devops-continuous-delivery/agentic-cli-regression-testing/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

04/09/2026

🛡️ AI is finding more vulnerabilities. But can you trust the reports?

LLM-based security analysis is creating new opportunities — and new challenges for PHP maintainers.

At Munich, Volker Dusch takes you behind the scenes of the PHP Foundation’s Ecosystem Security Team and shows you:
🤖 how LLM-generated security reports are changing vulnerability management
🔍 how to improve the quality of security findings
🛡️ what the team has learned about securing the PHP ecosystem

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

👉 Discover what PHP security looks like in the LLM age:
https://phpconference.com/web-security/securing-php-llm-age/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

03/09/2026

🧱 Who keeps the open-source infrastructure you rely on running?

In the latest Signals episode, Sebastian Bergmann talks with Michael Dowden about what it really takes to maintain the foundations of the PHP ecosystem.

You’ll learn more about:
🧪 PHPUnit 13.3 and flaky tests
🔐 Dependency hygiene and supply chain security
🤖 AI-generated security reports
🧠 The impact of AI on developer skills
💸 Sustainable funding for open source

🎥 Watch the full conversation here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plAdMkGzOaM&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

02/09/2026

🧩 Make legacy PHP less scary

How do you improve old code without breaking everything?

In this hands-on workshop, Jose M. Valera Reales & Roman Frolov take you straight into the code:
🧪 secure existing behavior with tests
🔧 refactor in small, safe steps
🤝 solve problems through pair programming
💡 build skills you can use in your own projects

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/php-core-coding/refactoring-workshop-modernizing-legacy-php-pair-programming/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

01/09/2026

🔎 What if your PHP search actually understood the question?

At Munich, Valerio Barbera takes you beyond traditional keyword matching and shows you how to build semantic search in PHP.

You’ll discover how to:
🧠 create embeddings from your content
📐 find results based on actual meaning
⚙️ store and query vectors
🛠 build a solution you can reuse in your own applications

📅 October 26 - 30, 2026 | IPC |📍Munich

Plus: is part of Agentic Web Week — bringing together developers, architects, and product teams to explore the next era of AI-native web development.

🔗 https://phpconference.com/trends-gen-ai/semantic-search-php/?loc=mun&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=program

31/08/2026

🤔 Monolith or microservices? Maybe you’re asking the wrong question.

Because switching to microservices doesn’t magically eliminate coupling—it can simply move it somewhere else.

In “Make Better Architecture Decisions,” Mike Lehan looks beyond the architecture debate and shows you how to build systems that stay maintainable as they grow.

🧩 Create clear domain boundaries
🔗 Reduce hidden coupling
🛰️ Combine monoliths with satellite services
🗄️ Make smarter decisions about your data

Before you plan that big architecture rewrite, give this a read. 👇

🔗 https://phpconference.com/blog/monolith-vs-microservices-reduce-coupling-architecture/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=content

How coupling and communication shape architecture decisions. Compare monoliths and microservices and build more maintainable systems.