PHP UK Conference 2016
18 - 19 Feb 2016 at The Brewery

Very informative talk on a complex subject with a good example: shame the "live demo" didn't quite go well. I think the potential for machine learning could have been highlighted a bit more - such as facial recognition/detection (see dlib.net ) or how machine learning can "go wrong" (such as the loyalty card/pregnant girl issue in the states a few years ago).

Code link is https://github.com/choult/enamel everyone ;)

Disappointing that it seemed a high level just "use SOA/Microservices - avoid monolothic" then things such as priming caches, optimising "time to view", inlining CSS/JS, database tweaks etc which I was expecting/hoping for. Few good points though - brining up the 204 trick seemed to be good for the audience, but could have also brought up the 201 Accepted/Retry-After trick and other status codes.

Very well presented and informative - I think one of the most technical talks I went to. Loved the fact you had pre-recorded the command line sequence instead of relying on "luck" during a live-demo: although it could have done with a bit of editing to save "dead time" where you were waiting for it to catch up. Oh, and the continual references to Secret Squirrel stuff made me laugh (especially since I've recently been watching Harvey Birdman with the Secret Squirrel episode). I'm still not sure why I should use Docker instead of Vagrant, but I suspect this talk was designed for people with a bit of experience of Docker.
All in all, an excellent talk!

A really interesting talk on a fascinating topic that was thoroughly informative.

A great talk from Jess that kept everyone engaged first thing in the morning. I think everyone walked away having learnt a lot and with plenty of food for thought.

Awesome talk. I think this was one of my favourite if not the favourite talks of the conference. Great stage presence and really clearly delivered.

Really appreciated the review-like process of going through the progress of different versions of the solution built within AOL.

I struggled with how to rate this. I think this is a pretty common topic for a keynote and talks generally, and I think that this variant was pretty well delivered, but not the best I've ever seen.

I think that there could have been a bit more focus on the benefits of giving 15min, rather than where you can spend it, and I feel it needed an original twist.

Awesome talk. Came into the talk knowing not much about the practical implementation of distributed micro-services and I followed it all and learned a lot.

Very comprehensive and insightful.

Ironically I think the most valuable snippet I took from this talk was the fact composer virtual packages were a thing.

The code samples were great and the coverage of backwards compatible methods of implementing PSR7 messages was really valuable.

Great talk, good insight into how HTTP2 helps solve a lot of issues. The statistics presented on companies measuring how much user engagement/money they lose from millisecond slowdowns really helps drive home how important performance is.

The "UX" part of the title made me assume going into it that there would be coverage of front-end UI practices to help mitigate performance issues, but that's probably just from my own POV and interpretation of UX. Wasnt a big deal.