Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016 at Hilton Minneapolis

I thought Kayla's backstory was actually quite interesting and she could have spent more time describing her struggle to overcome a poor background and pull herself up by her bootstraps. I appreciate anyone who doesn't just take a handout, but makes it on their own. There's a fine line between raising awareness and making a person feel guilty for unseen privileges. Everyone has their own individual set of advantages and disadvantages that they bring to the table. And sometimes those have nothing to do with gender. I think this session could have been applied more broadly to everyone if the individual challenges were brought into the equation, rather than just gender.

This was a great session that walked through scaling APIs through the various stages of maturity. A very helpful perspective. Thank you!

Awesome presentation. Well thought out and tons of tips and ways to 'find out more'. Especially liked how the presenter began by defining who the presentation is geared for. And even though I've been around for a while, very glad I stuck around! It will be things to share with my fellow devs. Thanks.

Very well presented. I agree with other commentor, use of video for code refactoring was a nice touch. Gave me a lot to think about. One of the most immediately applicable presentation, probably for everyone. Sound level was fine to me and I was standing in the back.

Very well presented, kept me engaged entire presentation. It also was very applicable to my own work so that helped! I liked the simple slides and how Samantha stepped through a real thing she did. And, if you don't mind, I'm going to adopt your trains/terminals analogy..

Well presented, and I fully undestood the concept. Only feedback would be to provide a couple more different examples with specific use cases.

Being a male living in MN Nice-land, I haven't experienced this first hand. Its just pathetic that this is happening. Having a daughter of my own its discouraging to hear the speaker talk about not encouraging hers to be a dev. Very insightful, well presented, definitely engaging. I plan to get our company to adopt and be informed of the code manifesto.

Really in-depth content made this very informative. Not having the key slides pulled out of the longer talk was a bit distracting.

This talk was at a good depth. It gave practical solutions and had real numbers for how caching improves things.

An architectural diagram could have helped everybody fly in from a mile high down into the code.

Motivating, engaging and entertaining. Great closing talk.