PHP UK Conference 2015
18 - 20 Feb 2015 at The Brewery

I had such high hopes for this, but the delivery lacked enthusiasm and (for me personally) the wrong areas were covered. I know about RESTful state, but not Symphony and this talk went into a lot more detail about REST and assumed you knew a lot about Symphony...

Very inspiring with some useful pointers and ideas. Love the idea of online mentoring, something I have traditionally done in a face to face role

I love performance, so this talk was music to my ears. Can't wait to give HHVM a try and hopefully I wont fall into the any of the problems highlighted by Dan.

I never realised how power PostgreSQL is. As pointed out its not the silver bullet of DB engines, but I can see a number of areas in which it would be be v.useful. Great talk, thanks!

Jenny was enthusiastic and clearly in touch with the community, however by the end of the talk I felt like a scolded child. A bit deflating for a keynote. Sorry :S

Epic talk. I left the talk whiling to jump over the keyboard to start implementing all these things.

As a good point: Crystal clear presentation and live demo.
As a bad point: It went into too much depth when showing the tool's interface.

This was an intermediate talk covering off much of what I already knew, but it had some strong pearls of wisdom (especially on logging filtering in Varnish and how to make nginx play nicely with nodeJS web sockets) so I got what I wanted out of it. The presentation was easy, entertaining, and Thijs was clearly enthusiastic. A winning combination and I look forward to more like this.

Hi Ben Squire

Thanks for the feedback. I briefly mentioned it during the talk but perhaps it was not clear enough, thanks for pointing it out.

The thing is that PHP is not brilliant for micro-services, mostly due to its nature (no threading, not particularly fast, etc...). However, if you don't have really strong speed requirements, you can take a mixed approach similar to what Billie Thompson explained in her talk about "MVVM and Silex - It's the future" having small services being assembled with some asynchronous capable middleware and still have most of your code both written in PHP but ready to be easily replaced when you need to do so.

Anyway, you are right and in case I do this talk again I will surely add a couple of slides making this point clear. Thanks!

Very good talk. The speaker pointed to the most important security issues.

As a good point: Very pleasant talk.
As a bad point: A bit lack of depth.

Great talk!

It made me realise about how many people has worked very hard before I write a single line of code... and they did it altruistically!
It's very impressive to see that before any line of your code is executed, 17M lines of code are already in place.