Pacific Northwest PHP (PNWPHP) Conference
10 - 12 Sep 2015 at Impact Hub Seattle

This talk opened my eyes to a number of vulnerabilities I didn't know about before. Great Job!

I really enjoyed the 'head-to-head' format and would like to see this done at other conferences. Frameworks? CMS? Convince the people!

There was tons of great information about Cassandra, MySQL JSON, and MongoDB packed into this talk, and I especially appreciated Jeremy's mini-presentation that gave an overview of NoSQL, the different storage methodologies, and how different database systems are categorized.

"When something goes wrong, calm down, make a plan, and execute it." --my paraphrased takeaway from Eryn's talk.

This was a wonderful presentation with a lot of common sense ideas that can be easy to forget when you're in the hot seat of a client situation. The best suggestion? When something goes wrong, don't just start writing code - it's the easiest way to exacerbate the issue, which only further highlights the importance of things like planning, peer review, and checklists.

Eryn has given this talk at a few other events, and I'm glad I had the chance to see it. You should too, if you get the opportunity.

Fantastic presentation. Even after losing ~20 minutes to projector issues, Samantha was still able to cruise through and complete her slide deck in a focused, coherent manner, which says as much about her preparation as it does about the content contained within the slides (thanks for putting them online!).

As someone who's just starting to work with APIs more frequently, I appreciated the strong overview on the background of REST, its terminology, and verb and status code use cases. I've been reading Phil Sturgeon's book on APIs, and thought this presentation was an excellent companion piece. I'd highly recommend anyone who's looking for more background on REST to see this talk at a future conference if they get the opportunity.

As a presentation focused primarily on the features of Azure Cloud, I thought this was an informative talk that helped me understand some of the potential benefits I could gain from considering the platform for future client projects. Ben discussed some of the challenges they encountered with scaling a particular project, one of which briefly strayed from the Azure portion to discuss the pros and cons of modifying the WordPress core, so I got to learn about a new-to-me plugin, Persistent Database Updater, which I'm excited to check out.

Heavy topic for the after lunch slot!!!!

Inspiring.

Overall, I thought this was an enjoyable talk, with lots of audience participation (if prompted by the promise of receiving a plush MySQL dolphin), and as someone less on the DBA side of things, I learned some new tricks about MySQL that I can look into and apply next time I'm writing queries.

I will agree with others that the question posed by the talk's title never directly really got answered, though I think it's inferred - databases are difficult because of the myriad little pieces of knowledge that are needed to properly construct your tables and write optimal queries. Perhaps a bit more explicit focus on answering that question (and, I agree - lessening the amount of text on individual slides) will help make this a talk a home run.

Great introduction to some of the features of the platform. Great even for those who already use some of them.

Very interesting case study.