Cascadia PHP
14 - 15 Sep 2018 at University Place

Talk was absolutely awesome as a ramp up tool for anyone wanting to get started on the subject.

One small request, could you remove the link portion from the slide url?

What Matt lacks in height, he definitely makes up in humor. His API spec talk was exactly the right tone for an end of day talk.

He kept things moving as he showed an example spec and the tooling that could turn it into documentation, language specific SDKs, mock APIs, etc.

Probably could have gone a bit deeper, but it was a short talk.

Which, let's be honest, is fitting.

Excellent example of refactoring in action!

This talk gave me some great ideas, I loved the info about how to make PHP run on Amazon Lambda, and Matthieu included a lot of info about the pros and cons. Very thorough and helpful!

I loved this talk, Michael had such great examples, and I felt like I came away with a much better understanding of some of the hot buzzwords people throw around when talking about ML.

Great talk, but I do think the latter was a bit heavy-handed. I mean, I completely agree with the views presented, but I felt like we went from Ethics for Developers to instead Political Considerations of Technology. We were skating Godwin's for quite a while there.

Great talk, somewhat amazing amount of info for a 25 minute slot. Only reason I give 4 instead of 5 is that Steve's verbal examples seemed to conflict significantly with the content of the slides. In particular, he used a lot of direct "you/you're" examples that were bordering on accusatory ("you're just wrong" or something to that effect). I think Steve was being casual and "real world" but especially in light of the preceding talk (The Monster on the Project) I experienced some cognitive dissonance during Steve's talk.

+1 on Steve's comment. Not only did Matthieu present this in an understandable manner, he was reasonably thorough in addressing implementation concerns and realistic about some of the tradeoffs involved with the serverless paradigm.

This talk was one of the highlights of the conference for me. It got me thinking completely differently about modernizing our legacy apps. Sammy is obviously very a practiced speaker, his style is engaging and clear. The only thing I would change about the talk is to have a little less emphasis on the _why_ and a little more on the _how_ but that's honestly a quibble in the context of a 50 minute talk.

Really useful talk for me personally, looking at ML at a level I've not done before. Took some key points away that I now need to go and spend more time investigating - thanks Michael!