Dutch PHP Conference 2022 - Online Edition
24 Jun 2022 at Online

Awesome story how you got to where you are right now. Lots of lessons learned

Thanks so much for braving the early morning and being so encouraging!

Nice talk. You broke down the complexity of the matter into understandable blocks. The end of the talk was not as clear as the rest, but the concept is harder too and the time was almost expired. I hope you could give the last part of the talk some more attention (or manage the time better) so even this part is more clear to your audience.

Great you took the time to stand up and share your experiences. I was not really into it, but keep on speaking. I'm sure you have inspired other people today.


I know how hard it is to express yourself in a different language without repeating to you familiar phrases (especially when nerves kick in). Next time try to say similar things in a different way, to keep listeners more engaged.
f.i. not let me tell you a or another story but let me share what I have experienced

Also you had 4 "rules" about being happy at your job and you said it was not true. Better show lust the one you debunked or debunk all 4.

thank you for clear (numbered) slides, standing up & being engaging (:
switching between slides was useful
I think the term "widgets" comes from WordPress's sample posts

bit much on microservices for a talk about monoliths, felt a little defensive, but I think it was appropriate for some of the more "trendy" opinions.

++ for reiterating basic concepts or pointing to more info
loved the SO programming languages graph

Great talk Diana! The explanation, slides and examples were perfect! I think it's a very important topic and I'll consider your suggestions to think about my career. Congrats!

It's been a great talk. Thanks to share that we can have a well-designed system without going to microservices. It's true that it depends on the context, because if the company has so many teams working on the same codebase it might be much easier to split the code based on the teams we have. But it's a difficult decision where there're too many things to take into account.

Good talk. Loved hearing about both sides of the coin. Very good advice on what to use (spoiler: it depends).

Awesome talk. Speaker was very clear and easy to follow. Slides were amazing and very easily readable.
The contents of the talk were insightful and helpful. And very recognisable in some cases.

Insightful talk! I found myself in such kind of situation to bugfix my career one year ago and I totally agree with the conclusion of the talk: that you are not forced to work in something that you don't like (especially in tech and we are lucky for this) and always make a switch to love again what you do!