PHP UK Conference 2019
20 - 22 Feb 2019
at The Brewery
Talk comments
There are some things which we don't deploy on Friday's and this talk didn't change my opinion on that. That said the talk was excellent, it had a lot of valuable information and provided answers to a lot of questions.
Often this topic is discussed in an ideal world scenario and I really liked how the talk spoke about legacy apps and the application of deployment strategies over a variety of different types of projects.
The speaker was engaging and obviously very passionate. It was a great talk to finish off the conference.
Anthony gave an extremely insightful and useful talk on his learnings creating a microservice led environment - absolutely one of my favourite talks of the conference. The style of presentation was great with lots of detailed examples and the technical knowledge behind it all was superb. An hour extremely well spent!
Speaker talks very well and is obviously very knowledgable in this subject. I got more out of this than I expected. While this specific talk focuses on implementations in Symfony, I felt there was a lot to take away, especially on API design and general application struture.
Really good talk if you done this before. The speaker was excellent. If you have used some of these tools then there wasn't a great deal to learn. I was hoping there would be a case study or a bit more time spent on how you would implement the tools to exact maximum value from them.
It is an important topic but I felt the talk didn't have the answers for problems in the workplace. The talk ended with "Be Yourself!" However, the preceding 50 minutes was a lecture to walk on egg shells incase you offend people.
There was also a part about video conferencing. The speaker rightly said that video conferencing is fairly awkward. His solution was for everyone to put on headphones so you have an equally bad time. This doesn't sound reasonable.
I felt perhaps a better talk would have been to approach the other side. How to raise issues and how you yourself can take criticism on board and be a more welcoming colleague.
Great talk which managed to really engage and entertain a tired audience right at the end of the conference! Some excellent thoughts on automation, some of which I wholeheartedly agreed with (and even practice!), others which really made me think about our processes in a way that I hadn't before. Brilliant closing keynote, thank you!
Fantastic talk, great speaker. I will be looking into how I can apply similar ideas at my own business.
The speaker spoke well. I wasn't a particular fan of the content this time round. I felt the talk spent too much time on how to store data rather than why you would store data with each method. I felt a better talk would have covered one or many use cases, the options available and why you may lean towards one more than another.
Great speaker, great content, really motivated me to spend some time to discover what AWS Lambda can offer in my own projects.
It's a shame that this talk didn't quite deliver on the enthusiasm of the description provided by Paul, but I do feel that some of the comments posted here are not particularly helpful in giving valuable feedback to the speaker or encouraging them to improve in certain areas, especially when nerves and language barriers seemed to play a part - it's not in the spirit of this community.
So thank you Paul for touching on a topic that is important. As others have said the Lego angle may have helped with the uniqueness of the talk and given you an anchor point and really focusing the talk on a specific area would have also helped.
I'm a firm believer that the best talks have been given by speakers recounting tales of their direct experiences which from memory seemed to be the strongest part of your talk.
Don't be discouraged by some of the harsher comments!