Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016 at Hilton Minneapolis

good talk - I'd be interested in seeing some real world examples of graph databases

While the talk title should've been "SQL bad. Graph good! Document and KVs too!" nevertheless I loved the balance of high level concepts and code samples. I'd give this 5 stars, but the presentation was a bit dry and the docker part was a distraction.

The intro needs a redo. I've used splunk at work for a couple years and did a little homework reading about elasticsearch, logstash, and kibana before I went to the talk, but was confused by the first 5 minutes or so. Too many components and concepts too fast; I would pick one of the three or four layers of the ELK (and Beats and Brokers) stack and talk only about it before moving on to another.

I did really appreciate it overall though, because a talk like yours is probably the best and quickest way to get a sense of what you're getting yourself into in terms of time and knowledge commitment with ELK, and the talk as a whole did convey that pretty well.

Awesome working examples and solid practical application advice

Put a lot of emphasis on how to move from anything else to graph, and specifically to neo4j. The whole bit about Docker didn't seem relevant to the presentation at all. Examples throughout didn't feel congruent with each other. Some were about university data, some where shop data... sticking with a single type of data would make the examples clearer.

Would have enjoyed more exploration of different types of database in each category... mysql vs postgres, mongo vs couchdb, etc. Also would like to know more about how to shard the various types of databases, which was only touched on during QA period.

PS: The description of the talk on the joindin page has messed up formatting.

Data structure talks are tough, and not a topic interpreted scripting language devs think about much, so thanks for bringing these fundamentals, and heck, the fact that the SPL is a thing, to the conference.

Agree with others that the Ardent examples aren't useful; mention it's there but an example for each data structure isn't necessary. Use the saved time to show us some of the benchmarks from the benchmark suite you referenced at the beginning, graphs showing speedup are motivators.

Great talk, made me excited for PHP7

I would personally like to see a few more code samples and examples of output from the insepection tools that were mentioned.

Amazing talk, made me want to make the switch tomorrow!

You listed a lot of resources and provided good context and motivation.

Your tone seemed a somewhat muted and it felt a bit like you were just dumping information on us. Your demeanor changed quite a bit once your talk was over and you were individually engaging with folks.

Toward the end, with your "anxious" slide, you listed quite a few ideas which might have benefited from being listed as bullets on a slide (hackathons, small open source project contributions, panel discussions, lightning talks, etc.). This will also help folks downloading slides for your resource lists.

Overall this is a great collection of information and encouragement for new developers and contains plenty of resource reminders for veterans.

Thanks so much for putting this information together and presenting.