PHP Tek 2026
19 - 21 May 2026
at Sheraton O'Hare Suites
Talk comments
This was a good talk, and I loved the mini-breakouts, but I feel like the time slot was too short for the time covered. I hope that I will be able to find this talk again online and perhaps rewatch or watch a longer format, if available.
The speaker did a great job of covering the high points of their framework, but I felt like we didn't dive too in-depth on the deep details of each pillar. By way of example, the only salient point I took down in my notes for "the messy middle" was "people need something that feels familiar". It felt like there wasn't enough time to cover the details properly before the speaker had to move on to the next slide.
Overall, a good talk and I look forward to following-up with the speaker and getting to ask some more questions!
A good talk, I have also seen John Congdon's take on Event Sourcing at another conference.
One thing I think was better about other versions of this talk that I've seen is that a bit more time was spent on explaining the vocabulary (Aggregator, Projection, etc.) which is not something you can ignore with Event Sourcing. I know the first time I was introduced to E.S. these terms were very confusing, and I think it would have been the same here had I not been expecting them because there wasn't a breakdown (to my knowledge) of the actual verbs in play.
Hopefully soon the CakePHP community will gain a Event Sourcing plugin as good as Spatie! (I checked, there isn't one.)
Very informative with a lot of interesting and easy-to-follow examples. I especially appreciated the demonstration of both the client AND server approaches, as opposed to focusing only on one.
One thing that could strengthen the corporate interest in this presentation is underscoring the fact that, at least right now, if you want to integrate yoursite.com with most LLM tools, you need an MCP (even if the marketing site doesn't call it that under the hood). This turns MCP from "that cool toy the AI specialist at our company plays with" to "this is how we get our product in Claude Desktop/Google Gemini/etc. as an officially supported app"
Very very useful information, I am excited to take it back to my team and see how it transforms code review.
One bit of feedback I have for the speaker is to work on your pacing just a bit. Unless I missed something, I don't think you introduced yourself at the top. And, I also struggled to keep up a few times, not conceptually but at how fast the slides were flying by! Granted, there was a lot of (VERY GOOD) content and I look forward to reviewing the slides again offline.
Helped me think about how people build authenticity...when normally all I think about is authenticating users :D
Great talk! Told at a good pace and information was digestible. I was worried I'd get overwhelmed but ended up leaving feeling just more informed :)
Try to install the pre requisites beforehand if your on windows as you'll likely run into some errors when setting up!
Alena is a fantastic teacher- willing to answer tons of questions, explains things well and at a good pace. Can't wait for next year!
Solid, concise tour for someone who used the Swagger spec pre-2.0 long ago and never since.
Good talk going into useful features in PHPUnit. Larry was well prepared, and presented the concepts very well. The talk was entertaining, had actionable take aways, and was very pertinent to good software development practices. Good to hear some strong opinions mixed in there.
This is an excellent talk, full of practical tips. I learned a lot about phpunit options which I never knew existed, and Larry's presentation style is entertaining and high energy. An excellent talk!