A 3-day conference to help PHP developers level up their craft and connect with the larger PHP community, in Austin, TX.

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Thursday, 14th October 2021

Hill Country A Elm Sycamore Scout Room
09:00

Building AWS ECS Stacks with Terraform & GitHub Actions

Joshua Ray Copeland

Git Legit

Pauline Vos

Passing the Technical Interview

Ben Edmunds

09:00
12:00

Lunch

12:00
13:00

The OOP In PHP

Matthew Turland

MySQL Indexes, Histograms, Locking Options, and Other Ways to Speed Up Your Queries

Dave Stokes

Powering Your API Development with OpenAPI

Daniel Abernathy

13:00

Friday, 15th October 2021

Scout Room Hill Country A Elm
09:00

Intro + Announcements

09:00
09:10

The grass isn't greener, it's complicated

Adam Culp

09:10
10:15

Automating Business Rules with JIRA, Gherkin and Behat

Kelley Campbell, Kelly Hitchcock Hochanadel

Becoming a Bug Exterminator!

Joshua Ray Copeland

Refactoring with Patterns and Automation

Christian Thomas

10:15
11:30

Releasing High-Quality PHP Packages

Colin O'Dell

Fiendish Functions: Filtering Fact From Fiction

Camilo Payan

DevCorp: an interactive adventure

Pauline Vos

11:30
12:30

Lunch sponsored by Sentry

12:30
13:30

What Makes a Great Developer?

Matthew Turland

13:30
14:30

Fantastic Bugs and How to Avoid Them

Anna Filina

Practical Security in Web Applications

Chris Holland

PHP & MySQL -- How do PDO, MySQLi, and X DevAPI do what they do

Dave Stokes

14:30
15:45

Is Eight Enough?

Sara Golemon

I never thought I'd be the "test person"

michael kimsal

Attackers want your data and they're getting it from your API

Tim Bond

15:45
17:00

Observability will Kill the Monitoring Star

Scott Ernst

Migrating a monolith to Cloud-Native and the stumbling blocks that you don’t know about

JJ Asghar

Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe - Docker Secrets and DI

Dana Luther

17:00
18:00

Afterparty sponsored by Laravel

18:00

Saturday, 16th October 2021

Scout Room Hill Country A Elm
09:00

Keynote: Taylor Otwell

Taylor Otwell

09:00
10:15

The Web is Inherently Accessible

Rachele DiTullio

Bend Time to Your Will with git

Chris Tankersley

Demystifying Unicode

Colin O'Dell

10:15
11:30

How to analyze your codebase with Exakat using Docker

Dana Luther

More Than Just a Cache: Redis Data Structures

Andy Snell

Level Up Your Code Quality

Joel Clermont

11:30
12:30

Lunch sponsored by Planetscale

12:30
13:30

The Search for Better Glue

Taylor Barnett

13:30
14:30

Strategies for testing complex (or legacy) code

Jason McCreary

How the Sausage Is Made

Sara Golemon

Design First APIs with OpenAPI

Matt Trask

14:30
15:45

Avoid Costly Framework Upgrades

Anna Filina

Bootstrapping a Million dollar PHP SaaS business for a buck a month (per customer)

Brady Wetherington

Leading a Neurodiverse Team

Bryce Embry

15:45
17:00

Socially Engineering Your Pathway to a Better Team

Olivia Liddell

17:00
17:45

Closing Announcements + Prizes

17:45
18:00

Afterparty sponsored by Covie

18:00