PHP TEK 2025
20 - 22 May 2025 at Sheraton O'Hare Suites

Easton gave an indepth yet accessible talk on getting started with Filament and demonstrated just how powerful of a tool it is. Great job!!

I had to leave a bit early to take care of an issue, but the part I saw was a nice overview of some of the metrics we can use to.improve our code.

A lot of "I wrote these slides last night" showing through in the code sections... typos, bugs, inconsistencies, etc.

Also a bit of the high level background on event sourcing that was omitted or assumed folks knew which would have made folks new to the concept way more comfortable with some of the otherwise terrifying concepts mentioned. like being able to blow away the database and rebuild it from the event stream. For folks coming from non-event source backgrounds that concept is totally alien.

This was a great talk from Chris, who has a very engaging style and good rapport with the audience. The key takeaway for me is the focus on customer needs and providing value to them: "You are paid to write a useful API for users, not shift work to them."

Every time I see a good API talk, I want to build a new service *just* so I can implement all of the great API knowledge I've just (re-)learned. This talk is no exception: Chris covers the basics of HTTP verbs, status codes, and versioning in a way that pulls from personal experience yet is approachable enough for engineers of all levels.

Nice talk and demo from Florian! Picked a good example of seemingly-simple, uncovered switch statement in PHP source and showed some of the gotchas and structure to work within when writing a test for it.

Loved the talk! I've got the PHP source code repo cloned and am browsing CodeCov. Time to write a test!

Excellent.

Scott does a great job presenting the material. Normal forms and database design aren't something people spend much time on. This was a good refresher for me.

I find asynchrnous programming awkward to implement, even though I understand the need for it. Eric did a great job explaining it, and making it approachable. Now I find myself wanting to dive deeper into Fibers. Nice job!