Midwest PHP 2016
4 - 5 Mar 2016 at Hilton Minneapolis

Would have liked more info about the client side. There was only one small client side code sample with "this is all you've gotta do!". I would have liked a much more in depth explanation of the client side and what goes actually over the wire / the protocol in general. Less time explaining React and event driven programming, and more on WebSockets would have been ideal.

Seriously awesome talk. Perfect tone for the closing of a conference. Full of great thoughts.

As a speaker, Eli is confident and entertaining. This talk however should've been simply titled Intro to Memcached, as it mainly consisted of enumerating the various php methods for interacting with memcache, along with some "don't do that" statements - usually with little or no explanation. For example he states that filesystem caching is very common, but a bad idea, and then moves on. I can speculate that this is due to disk i/o speeds, yet I'm skeptical of that in the context of a php application. He didn't even mention Redis, which is often used in place of memcached. His code samples were crazy nested loops and conditionals, which in combination with the examples from Digg gave the talk a feeling of being outdated php4-era information.

Samantha obviously knows this subject thoroughly, and yet she made Elasticsearch seem accessible and easily implemented (at least for exploratory purposes). I'm a huge fan of code in presentations, and especially live coding, and I very much appreciated her use of curl to show what Elasticsearch is doing. Near the end of the talk, I immediately went looking for the slides on her website. I'd love to attend the full workshop version of this talk.

Humorous, energetic delivery of inspirational material.

The NASCAR pit crew discussion provided a good analogy for discussing teamwork.

Thanks for your putting this talk together and for all of your work with the community.

It was very dry, but hey, so is the subject matter. Volume wasn't an issue for the front row but I suspect it might've been for the rear of the room. Slides were fantastic, though I would've preferred more emphasis on the zend-crypt (or other vetted libs) and a firmer suggestion against rolling one's own using the lower level APIs, but that's personal preference. If you want to encrypt stuff or send messages securely and privately over the interwebs, this talk is a fantastic starting point. Enrico did disclaim early on that the talk level was advanced and that certainly applied when various vocabulary was assumed (e.g., symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption). Enrico clearly knows his stuff and it shows.

It only takes a couple of minutes to realize Samantha wouldn't need her slides or notes to give this talk (though her slides will double as a good reference book), as she clearly knows the subject matter incredibly well. The jumping between slides and CLI robbed time and continuity, but I'd prefer that to just slides. As someone who has used ES for simple(r) use-cases, I learned a lot.

Good example presented clearly made what may be a difficult topic for some a relative breeze. Good job all around.

Came for a succinct primer on new stuff in PHP 7 and that's what I got. Hugs were optional.

Interesting, valuable information presented clearly and energetically.

A little long on content. Note sure it's necessary to explain each method in such detail.