PHP North West 2017
29 Sep - 1 Oct 2017 at Manchester Conference Centre

Really enjoyed this talk, was a good one for the last slot at the conference.

I might be the wrong person to review the talk, as we develop web apps rather than marketing/ecommerce. I think the overall implementation wasn't clear - if you disconnect the Wordpress content db from the front end, what renders the front end, i.e. is it just Wordpress somewhere else and how does that link to the database, or is it static rendering and how does that get carried out? There's really interesting concepts here though - the idea of replacing a dynamic CMS with edit-side CMS and static fast content has been well used at LADBible (they deploy to S3). I also think (again very much based on my background) that a talk about content distribution would have an easy win touching on CDNs, and sort of expected this from the abstract.

Well delivered talk which did what it set out to do, with very nice slide designs too. Very opinionated which is natural in this area, but whilst I disagree with some of the concepts the way you arrived at them and how they work for you was very clearly stated.

Well paced and with a wealth of tools to go away and examine. I think a longer part of the talk showing exploring requests with Blackfire or TIdeways would have increased the "skill-up" nature of the talk. Good to get specific talking about cache performance and Doctrine too.

An essential concept to learn about and a good example to use to teach security. The fault tree analysis was well mapped up to active web development; I thought the aircraft example worked well but would have been interesting to hear more examples of how independent systems could protect PHP security. Additionally, an extension of security from hackers is security from internal actors - I'd love to learn how nuclear power stations protect against that and if there's more we could learn!

Good idea for a talk; I think that a few of the ideas would have been better with more examples. Well explained points though.

Quality talk from the guy who started it all. Was most interested to have learned some of how PHP came about in the early days, but also interesting to see some new optimisations. I think a bit of extra info for those less familiar with how PHP core works would have been useful - i.e. how do these new features come about, who decides what goes where. That's just a request for the next one though!

Such a great talk. A good, positive message to close the conference, and such awesome slides!

As socials go the PHPNW social is always excellent. I loved the band, the slideshare karaoke, the open bar, playing games and ordering pizza at 2:30AM ;)

Excellent introduction into Terraform. After seeing this talk, I have the feeling that I could get started very easily with Terraform. I will look deeper into this, thanks.