PHPxIbadan - October 2025 Meetup

Pragmatic PHP: Integrations, Abstractions & Infrastructure.

First meetup of the PHPxIbadan group 🎉

Schedule

• 03:00 - Doors open & snacks
• 03:20 - Introducing PHPxIbadan
• 03:40 - From AWS Bills to PHP + FFmpeg: My First Task at Selar by Ariyo Ayomide
• 04:00 - Standardizing Multiple Third-Party Providers in PHP: The Power of Clean Abstractions by Mojeed Olarewaju
• 04:20 - Building beautiful API integrations using Saloon by Paul Adams
• 04:40 - Social drinks
• 05:00 - Approx. closing time

Talks

1. From AWS Bills to PHP + FFmpeg: My First Task by Ariyo Ayomide

When your first ticket is “our cloud spend is hurting,” you learn fast. Ariyo walks through how a scrappy PHP + FFmpeg pipeline went from “it works on my laptop” to cost-aware, production-ready media processing. You’ll see profiling tactics, smart queueing, and storage/CDN choices that cut waste without killing performance. Expect candid tradeoffs, before/after numbers, and a blueprint you can reuse the next time video or audio threatens your budget.

2. Standardizing Multiple Third-Party Providers in PHP: The Power of Clean Abstractions by Mojeed Olarewaju

Integrations multiply; chaos shouldn’t. Mojeed shows how contracts, adapters, and small interface-driven boundaries tame wildly different third-party providers. Learn how to decouple business logic, swap vendors in minutes, and test without hitting the network. He’ll demo real refactors from tangled conditionals to elegant patterns, plus tips on versioning, failure isolation, retries, and observability. After this talk, “just integrate it” won’t terrify your team.

3. Building beautiful API integrations using Saloon by Paul Adams

Great integrations feel invisible. Adams dives into crafting API clients with Saloon that are readable, testable, and a joy to maintain. You’ll explore request/response classes, middlewares, auth strategies, pagination, and resilient error handling—wrapped in a DX that speeds up teams. Live examples show how to go from raw endpoints to a clean, reusable integration layer that scales with your product and your roadmap.