PHP UK Conference 2012
24 - 25 Feb 2012
at Business Design Center
Talk comments
Great talk, third year in a row I've seen Ian present at PHP UK. He always nails it, taking complex topics and breaking them down into easily digestible talks. After attending a few flakey talks earlier in the day I knew Ian's talk would make the conference worthwhile.
On a side note, I think Virgin must be starving him, Ian seems to be more svelte every year!
One of the better talks I attended, confident speaker. Useful information on decoupling applications to help scale them. Definitely going to investigate Gearman and Supervisord. The former was mentioned in multiple talks during the conference.
I don't know if this was the presenter's first talk? I thought it had gems of useful information in it but they were a little 'spread out'. The presenter started off so confidently only to suffer from nerves half way through.
Some interesting concepts / explanations but this talk needed to be shorter or have additional information added to support some of the lulls. Can't help but feel 15-20 minutes could have covered all that was said here.
I think the overall message was clear in this talk, abstract your persistence layer and don't assume you're going to be running of an SQL database when you need to scale. Sound advice to introduce a seam at this layer in your software.
I thought the speaker was confident but could have used more in depth examples and code to provide weight and clarity about how to implement this abstraction. As one delegate pointed out in the talk, no mention of common persistence patterns like DataMapper or others.
Good fun! OpenOffice FTW!
Good party!
Good talk on mongo today. got ideas wherre to use it just by listening
Great talk. Very well presented
A thought provoking talk from an engaging speaker - given me lots to think about regarding my personal development.