Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016 at Hilton Minneapolis

I felt like the first 12-15 minutes of this talk was bogged down in politics. I fully expected the slides to start with the "Your services WILL fail" slide and then build up an argument for doing microservices right.

Many of the ideas could have used diagrams and common nomenclature such as "this is the standard Adapter pattern."

Very clear presentation! The code examples were easily understood and concise. Love the analogies references.

Useful tips and suggestions for how to build better APIs. Very clear presentation!

Eli was a great speaker as usual, the talk however was not as advertised, it was mostly focused on using the memcached api.
In the future, I'd like this talk to cover better caching principles and techniques instead of focusing on API details, some modern OOP code wouldn't hurt too.

Until my talk claim is approved, here is the link to the slides. The recording was cut off a bit at the beginning, but I'll have that up as well.

http://www.slideshare.net/jasonlotito/load-testing-with-php-and-redline13

Cal, This was a great talk. I loved the energy and the tone. The anatomy of a professional programmer as you broke it down and explained it is helpful and the stories and examples were great. Thank you!

What can you say that already hasn't been said about Cal. His presentation skills and motivational ability is top notch. This was a great talk to close out the conference.

Eli covered both real world and theoretical examples to clearly explain some of the common pitfalls of caching. Extremely valuable hour of content!

I'm the first to say that I don't understand as much about load testing as I should. Jason's talk was clear and helped me level up a bit and learn about a new tool.

Beth provides a great landscape view of many of the elements to take your code and career beyond the first stage.