PHPBenelux Conference 2019
25 - 26 Jan 2019 at Ter Elst

I loved this talk, there was really great talks on the conference, IMO it's the best talk of #phpbnl 2019.

Thank you for sharing the good & bad with us. Only thing I would like to hear more details: decisions/ideas how to fix the problems at hand (from post-talk conversation I got info they went with microlith, a combination of microservices & monoliths) ..

I had 'Driving Technical Change' book in my reading todo list for quite a while now and was really looking forward to get the quick gist, which moved the book to the top of my list in order to dive bit deeper on the topic.

Speaker was brilliant, only thing I have to remark is not using presenter which forced him to go back and forth, sometimes skipping a slide by mistake.

I think there are few more tips that can be persued (like taking ownership of a project when dealing with time-crunched or cynics).

Also thumbs up for not 'selling' the book but only mentioning it, something I have resented a bit to some other speakers in the past

Great! This talk had me thinking about my colleagues, in ways I'm not going to write here publicly, but it definitely helped give me ideas how to sell my ideas to the crowd ;)

This was a good, informative talk. What missed for the full "great/awesome talk" was to get more of a story out of it. The talk started out great, with the sea and sharing the ideas for the talk, it sounded like story telling so I expected the story to continue. The build-up of the talk didn't live up to the talk itself, which is why I think some of the comments here about "lost me half way" could happen easily.

I would like to see more specific examples of use-cases and how YOU use these features, rather than just the features themselves - And that's what I expected when I came to see this talk.

I'd like less information but with more story and results/demo, you answered the how but not the why.

The rocking back and forth that you do got slightly distracting at times. It wasn't any big deal for me, but I thought I'd point that out for your awareness, in case you want to work on that.

The stability of your voice and speed of talking was perfect.

All in all: Thanks for a good talk! :)

Got a bit depressing at times, but it was always light-hearted. Your definition of legacy being 'code without an owner' was great.

Really liked the idea of using churn vs complexity to identify places which 'really need work' and have already tried that out with a legacy project I'm working with - interestingly it identified a few places I hadn't expected (and several I had).

You're a great presenter Matthias, with obvious in-depth knowledge!

Not really what I expected, but that's probably to do with my expectations and not necessarily with the talk itself. The info about JWT was good, and the possible use cases are also very interesting.

I'd gone in hoping for something more advanced.

While I understood the 'journey' from 'raw' assets to using webpack directly, to encore and the advantages that brings I think that time could have been saved and used to look at some more advanced functionality of encore.

Nice blend of history and the future delivered in a light-hearted and amusing way.

Great range of super tasty food!

Fantastic workshop - the perfect balance of theory and practice.

I really liked the way the exercise was structured as a refactoring of an existing 'working codebase'.
Good to encourage us to pair programme as well - it can be challenging for some to pair with people they don't know, but it definitely helped us to get more from the workshop.