RoadRunner

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server and process manager written in Go, extensible through a plugin system. It runs PHP applications as persistent worker processes and ships plugins for HTTP/2/3, gRPC, queues, KV storage, WebSockets, and observability.

Use cases

• replace nginx + php-fpm with a faster php application server
• serve php http apps with psr-7 workers
• run a php grpc server
• process background jobs with rabbitmq, kafka, or sqs from php
• run temporal workflows from php
• add websockets to a php app via centrifuge
• supervise and auto-scale php worker processes

When to choose

• you need high-throughput php serving without per-request bootstrap overhead
• you want an all-in-one server with queues, kv, grpc, and metrics built in
• you use Laravel, Symfony, Yii, or Spiral and want long-running workers

When to avoid

• you rely on shared-hosting or apache mod_php deployment
• your app depends on per-request state assumptions of classic php-fpm
• you need a pure PHP solution without a Go binary

Facets

application · maturity stable

http-server rpc message-queue caching monitoring websocket middleware workflow-automation cli backend web-development developer-tools self-hosted apis performance windows go php cross-platform php-application-server process-manager worker-pool psr-7 grpc temporal nginx-fpm-alternative plugin-system opentelemetry linux macos docker kubernetes

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