Northeast PHP Conference 2015
22 - 23 Aug 2015 at Microsoft NERD Center

Excellent talk. Most talks on SOA focus on what SOA is and how to create a Service, but fall down in providing any insight into how you can realistically transition from a monolithic architecture to a service oriented one. This is where Kiran's talk shined, and there was a strong focus on how you can plan, prepare, and transition to SOA.

Very good topic with a fun and engaging delivery. Though he didn't give the exact code to write microservices with, he mapped out how it could be done (not just with PHP) fairly well. Overall a great speech, definitely got me thinking.

I agree with the comments here. The talk abstract emphasized PHP and I wasn't able to get nearly enough PHP into the talk. I made the decision to stay high-level and not go into the weeds and lot went unanswered because of it. I have received a lot of encouragement offline from people saying they got a lot out of that approach but I understand many people wanted something with more meat.

I have many pages of notes and code that I had to cut from the talk because I couldn't fit it in 45 minutes. I will think on how best I can get that out into the community.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to pick my brain on PHP or Microservices (or both at once) please feel free to reach out to me and I'd love to help.

Hey Edward, Please find the link of my slides for the talk. Feel free to ping me if you are looking for any additional information. I'm happy to share my experience. I appreciate your ratings.

I found this talk to be incredibly helpful. The questions I had regarding project plan and organizational implementation (not technical questions) were answered.

Susie delivered a talk on Diversity, a subject that I'm particularly concerned about, so it was great to see it discussed on the NEPHP stage. She had some really good points about "Waste Not, Want Not" and made a good case for not leaving a large percentage of the workforce on the side. I felt that some of her stories lacked a little focus, but it was great that they were clearly very personal.

At the end of the day, one of the best things to have in our arsenals to persuade whole industries to change - or at least to start to change - is data, so it would also have been nice to have seen some studies that spoke to some of the more anecdotal pieces Susie presented.

However, it's clear that she has had a lot of personal experience in this realm, and I would highly recommend this session to anyone, regardless of their background or feelings on the subject.

Scaling PHP is a bit outside my area, but it was clear that the talk presented a unique perspective and engaged the audience was engaged, Martin handled advanced questions with confidence.

I enjoy demos at this type of talk and wish there was one here. However, the history was very interesting and the flow of data from the sensor to interface was presented well. Great talk.

Yes, there was no example micro-service built, but I can't imagine fitting that in the 45 minute time slot due to the breadth of the topic. So yes, the description could have been more accurate. But the note that attendees didn't need to be pro software architects suggested this would be a higher level conceptual talk. What micro-services are and why they are used were explained, as promised. I feel like I have a better sense now of what approaches should be taken to write one in PHP. The decision to emphasize the potential pain points of writing these types of apps was a good choice.

Fascinating look at not only the new features in PHP 7, but also the community process that created them.