3 years ago

Category: Laravel, PHP, api

Some time ago, I wrote about creating a simple serverless API based on the Lumen micro-framework and DynamoDB: In that post, I used the Stackery custom runtime to deploy the PHP application. In this new post, I’m creating a similar application, but with the following differences: Bref, developed by Matthieu Napoli on top of the Serverless Framework, is a tool that makes it very easy to run serverless PHP applications on AWS Lambda. Laravel is an expressive and elegant web application framework for PHP written by Taylor Otwell and, to date, is the backend framework with [most starts] on Github.

This diagram shows the architectural components of this sample application: Here you can find all the involved languages and frameworks: Here is a list of tools that should be installed and configured on your development workstation: I recommend downloading the local version of DynamoDB, so you can try locally before deploying to the cloud.

It can connect to both the cloud and local instances of DynamoDB.