Manually adding data to our development environment is tedious and boring, not being sure on what changes will be applied to production database after deployment can be dangerous. To battle this issues, developers decided to load gigabytes of production data on their machines or run queries manually before or after deployment. In the world of crazy fast changes, working with more and more team mates and on more complex projects, automation and reliabilty are becoming a must have. Fixtures will give you opportunity to have small yet relevant data set so you dont have to import production data or enter testing data into the system your self, every time system changes. By using migrations we can easily transfer database changes amongst the team and get the confidence on the changes that will be applied to staging/production. In my case, both concepts helped communicate changes better and allowed us to modify the system with more confidence and at a faster pace. While some popular frameworks and ORM's dont ship with fixtures or migrations support by default, there are great extensions to provide this. I will showcase ones for Symfony and Doctrine but talk is more about their concepts and not the implementations.

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Pim Elshoff at 18:48 on 27 Oct 2018

Roll with whatever the demogods throw at you! There was really no issue, it all happens. Content was good, even for Laravel users and nothing users. For 5/5 you need to pretend it's all part of the plan and hold on to the clicker :p

Miro was good as always. He kept his coolness even when his clicker flew across the room

hbea2014 at 20:54 on 28 Oct 2018

Very practical and clearly explained, great!

Miro Svrtan (Speaker) at 21:16 on 31 Oct 2018

Yeah, there is an army saying in Croatia: "Nothing should surprise us" and I might need to get into that groove :)

Thank you all for your feedback!