Dutch PHP Conference 2018
7 - 9 Jun 2018
at RAI amsterdam
Talk comments
Very good talk! One of the top talks I've seen this conference
Rafael is a really good speaker, a respected professional and an all-round good guy.
I was disappointed with the end result of this talk and told him why: I was expecting a Prometheus talk, not a "here's my experience with metrics talk that happens to have a tiny bit of Prometheus included".
I was planning to give this a 3/5, but that would mean it wasn't a good talk. It was a good talk, but I expected something else. A 4/5 is granted.
This talk could be split up into 2 different talks:
a) A talk about your experiences with metrics
b) A talk about Prometheus (might require a bit of research from your end)
Conclusion: disappointed with the result, but not with the quality of the presentation.
I really liked the explanation about metrics. Good and clear definition on different metrics, different goals and different situations where to use them.
I did find the part of Prometheus, how to use it, a bit short. Which, for me, was the expectation of the talk: how to apply/use Prometheus to get basic relevant application metrics.
It was good that Rafael mentioned this upfront. My feedback on this would be to change the name of the talk to speak about domain metrics as this would be more suitable.
Overall quality of the presentation is very good, as per standard. Rafael is an experienced speaker and you can see this whenever he is on stage.
Thank you!
Excellent talk, great speaker. I'm not too familiar with the history of computer science and networking, so that was an eyeopener for me.
Not what I expected at all but informative no the less.
Have a new tool I can use now, that's easy to explain to my team of developers.
Usefull and fun, the keywords for this talk.
We had a blast and we got to see people grow (in speaking up) in the relax and open space provided by Kenneth. The end felt a bit unfinished, but there was room for discussions and I liked that.
Kenneth was open for the examples of the group when we suggested a different form for the game he provided.
Maybe you can take a look at these games for future workshops: concept, codenames & spyfall. Can also be fun and educational like time's up. I used them a few times for communication workshops.
Slides:
https://www.slideshare.net/dominikzogg/chubbyphp-deserialization
Libraries:
https://github.com/chubbyphp/chubbyphp-deserialization
https://github.com/chubbyphp/chubbyphp-serialization
Demo / Sample usage:
https://github.com/dominikzogg/deserialization-serialization-sample
It was good and informative talk about browser API's and got me some inspiring ideas. Superhero slides was imho well chosen, and the best part was interaction with the robot and actions with tweets.
I think Thijs did an amazing job performing on stage. It was energetic, engaging and at times very funny. And yet I did not leave the room feeling inspired. I felt conflicted about the message that was being sent from stage:
"Don't complain, do something about your situation" - but with a video stating "fuck all the hours you don't spend achieving your goals"
"Work harder" - with an anecdote about someone who did 100 emails before breakfast, and doesn't spend time with his family?
"don't hero-worship" - but with a call for applause for someone who "lives on the road" and "survives on coffee" and "smokes to get good deals" (I don't mean to put that person down, but I do feel this is probably not a lifestyle we should be advocating for)
Dafuq. It was just really confusing. I think a lot of this talk is based on a pre-set notion of "success" that I don't share.
So I'll give Thijs the benefit of the doubt and assume he's aiming for "luck favors the prepared", and also assume he means "work hard - but at a sustainable pace". But only because I think I've seen a lot of community things happening only because Thijs is putting in the work - and that is amazing. Thanks your for that Thijs, and I'll skip on the road to success that you paint.
As a heavy Behat user even I learned a couple of new things about it! The talk was nicely structured, well presented. I think the introduction to the material was spot on.