Lone Star PHP 2016
7 - 9 Apr 2016 at Addison Conference Center

Good primer for Redis. Was going to pick memcached for an upcoming project, but will now instead use Redis.
Especially liked how you handled that troll in the audience.

So I walked into this one with more intrigue than interest and I'm sincerely glad I did..

I default to loops most of the time because they're a nice hammer that I know. Using map reduce concepts to collapse and simplify loops is a powerful approach that I hadn't considered.

This is one of the few decks I've bookmarked to come back to later.

I'm glad to have horrified all of you. :)

I was expecting a more strategic view of launching a platform as opposed to the specific tactics but the content and approach were great.

In terms of additions, I'd love to see what adoption looked like pre/post the current version and how these lessons improved those numbers. Even if you can't share numbers, magnitude/scale would be useful.

The coffee drinks were great. :)

Good talk with some actionable steps and information that could be applied almost immediately.

Overall, I enjoyed this talk. It was informative and useful in some things to do and avoid.

But I think this could have been a lot more actionable if there were examples showing the concepts in practice.. both good and bad.

A nice intro to Docker with some good caveats. I had no idea about Rancher.

A great & practical example of TDD in Kata. Katas were new to me. Worth attending.

The slide presentation set the standard for the rest of the conference, which no one supplanted. I sincerely appreciated the stance of "I am the product" as a new perspective on how to approach things.

And parts of the talk about being the product/commodity, reminded me of this:
https://youtu.be/VEgu7jdc_fs