# kraken-php/framework

Asynchronous & Fault-tolerant PHP Framework for Distributed Applications.

Repository: https://github.com/kraken-php/framework
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kraken-php-framework
Homepage: http://kraken-php.com
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: php, asynchronous, fault-tolerance, supervision, async-library, multi-process, multi-thread, async, stream, microservices, service-oriented
Last push: 2017-07-21T18:22:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3905, "days_push": 3330, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1104, forks 56 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:36.290316+00:00)

## What it is
Kraken is a PHP framework for building asynchronous, multi-processed, multi-threaded, and fault-tolerant distributed applications. It provides an event loop, promise-based API, message-driven process/thread containers, and local/remote supervision hierarchies for self-healing systems.

## Use cases
- build distributed applications in PHP
- write fault-tolerant microservices in PHP
- create multi-threaded or multi-process PHP daemons
- build socket servers handling thousands of connections
- implement supervision hierarchies that self-heal
- run service-oriented architectures across multiple hosts
- build schedulers or agent-based models in PHP

## When to choose
- you need concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance in PHP
- you want event-driven, promise-based async programming in PHP
- you are building daemons, socket servers, or SOA systems in PHP

## When to avoid
- you need a framework with active maintenance and recent releases (last release 2017)
- you are building a traditional synchronous web application or CRUD site
- your team is not comfortable with async, multi-process architectures

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-framework, concurrency, microservices, message-queue, rpc
- domain: microservices, backend, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: php, cross-platform, cli
- tags: fault-tolerance, supervision, multi-process, multi-thread, event-loop, promise-based, actor-model, ipc, service-oriented-architecture, linux

## Member repositories
- kraken-php/framework (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.290316+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:45:28.420234+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kraken-php/framework (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:36.290316+00:00, sha 4281317e8e5b)
  - homepage: http://kraken-php.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:48:07.096852+00:00, sha 4c0cf0de282d)
  - site_page: https://www.kraken-php.com/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T12:48:07.106195+00:00, sha 776e1be811bc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.