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

An extremely useful talk which (although specifically focusing on JSON support in MySQL) encroached on some other interesting new features in MySQL 5.7 such as Generated Columns.... while obviously useful for the JSON datatype, they also have practical application more generally; although I'll be even more interested when GIS indexes can be applied without needing STORED.

Presentation was clear and concise, and the pacing was good; though it might have been interesting to see actual hands-on query execution rather than simply timing figures on a slide to appreciate the differences in performance

+1 :)

This was one of the best talks of the conference. I have been using docker for a good while and I was one of the few people who raised a hand when you asked if anyone was using containers in a production environment. I actually only learnt one thing in the talk which was the volumes_from option in docker-compose.yml but the best bit was the reassurance that everything I had done so far was the right way of doing it. It was a blessing for the talk to be delivered so clearly and at just the right pace.

Great talk, made me think a lot about how easy it is to download something, use it and forget about what's going on behind the scenes. Tonight I answered my first question on Stackoverflow. Thank you for your great job and for the talk, you've been an inspiration!

This was a great talk but I felt that it could have benefited from being slightly less broad and focussing in a bit more detail on some of the topics, sometimes it felt like a "whirlwind tour".

Entertaining, thought provoking... those would be the words to describe it. As usual .. yet another great talk from you. Well done.!

This on the whole was a good talk but if there was one easy change you could do to improve it it would be this: Cut out most of the description of what the booking system has to do. Most people in the room will have booked flights before and most people in the room can probably grasp pretty quickly what the typical problems would be and the types of add-on sale that exist

If you can trim the intro then I think it would give you a lot more time to focus on the really interesting technical implementation details. Some people have said the talk was too theoretical but I do not agree with them, I think it is good at a conference to have some talks that give code examples and some talks to give bigger picture architectural views, your talk was definitely architectural and had some interesting points.

Well paced delivery, decent content. Could have pushed the boundary a little.

Loads of info, well presented. Well paced delivery. Only complaint i would have is the lack of practical examples / evidence.

Thank you for reminder about Magento :) I'm sure if you could include more examples and comparisons between Magento 1 and 2 will be more helpful.