PHP Serbia Conference 2019
24 - 26 May 2019
at Belgrade
Talk comments
For me, this was a great talk, having so many different architectural models shown I felt a bit overwhelmed but would not have changed anything.
I feel that maybe this talk is just not meant for everyone, I guess some years ago I would have been completely overwhelmed, not being able to follow the details. Watering it down to try to cater for less experienced crowd would make it uninteresting for more experienced ones, I would love to see more speakers doing 'advanced' topics like this, not being affraid cause it might fly over some peoples heads.
Saying that, this talk would probably be more appropriate for the smaller room on the conference, some people might have wondered in to main track thinking this will be more generalistic approach.
Great talk, very good connections between theory and speaker experiences!
@Alexander: Idea was not to define what `senior` is as much as share knowledge and lessons with attendees on how to become 'senior', what to look out, etc.
When speaking to younger generations, due to high misuse of 'senior' term, I often get asked what it is, how they can achive it, what to do and how to get there. Sorry if that wasn't clear from the abstract and the topics we tried to cover, will work on that for hopefully next iterations of this panel.
@Misa: Hm, sorry to hear that as I really tought we covered those very well. Will wait for videos to look at the whole panel and will try to improve the idea if I decide to repeat something similar.
While I disagree with some ideas and premises speaker started with, I think this was a rather nice talk altogether. It had a really confusing start, with a strangely looking title it took first 15 minutes of me being confused if I'm on the right talk or did Srdjan pull a 'lets do another talk'.
It was nice to see Srdjan 'rant' levels have dropped down significantly, from the intro I know he was working hard on it and it was visible (as much as he says there will be no rants I do not support this talk is there yet )
For 5* I would:
- suggest working a bit on the business side of the story if speaker belives this is a must part of the talk, it felt like talk had 2 completely different topics
- try to keep on subject, you opened doors at few moments that made me think more about them than what was talked about next
- Hashi Vault part of the story felt like a time filler at moments
- suggest to avoid sarcastic title
As I know Srdjan personally, with my rating beeing between 3* and 4*, I decided to go for 3* just to try to be less subjective (which I know I'm not fair towards him) but I hope to see this talk again (and will give my best to attend it)
Really good talk from a great speaker.. I was amazed by some facts and bit ashamed I was not even aware of them for years (like this is 2nd time JIT is being implemented).
BTW. level of technical details that speaker went to is amazing, he went so deep yet explained all of the things so nicely that while I felt on some topics it swooshed over my head next few minutes covered all of the needed explanations
Superb talk, it would have been fun that it was held before the quiz so we could check our knowledge and what we learnt at the talk
Great concept, it was fun that a little interaction was introduced to the talks.
It was interesting, however a bit too abstract, the speakers did not give any concrete ideas and advice to people walking down this road but rather stuck with the idea that seniority is relative and cannot be generalized. It was interesting to listen to but not particularly useful.
Good talk, excellent examples and tips. Good job!
I've done this quiz some years ago, this time I scored much better (5 out of 14 :)) ).
While it did remind me of lot of nuances PHP has, I'm pretty happy I havent seen to many in my daily life: making me appreciative of codebases I work on.
One small remark, few times speaker looked unprepared (and mentioned it) with post answer setup, I know running different set of questions every time is not easy but please try to rehearse it a bit more (or at least skip mentioning that you forgot something, we might not notice that detail :) )