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

Amazing talk! Lots of great advice given in a funny and easy to digest way. The chat with the sad CEO on Skype bit had me laughing out loud, that was brilliant! :D :D :D

What a way to end the conference. Short and sweet!

That was a very enjoyable talk. Interesting that the speaker was nervous (his first conference talk) but still went on with a live demo. A very well done :)

It was especially nice to learn about the inner workings of the tool as well as seeing the process of adding new modules.

I found this talk extremely interesting, and covers a cost-effective solution to massively scaling an existing platform, without having to rearchitect the entire thing. Will certainly be easily achievable as frameworks move to be more headless.

An excellent and thoroughly enjoyable session with a fantastic amount packed into the 50 minute session and delivered in an engaging conversational style that. It would have been good to see a fully configured instance at the end just to see that all in action.

Certainly demonstrated compelling solutions for problems with previous versions of Jenkins, and with building pipelines in general that can evolve with the project itself. Will definitely read up more on new features.

Slideshow Karaoke. 5/5 Would do again.

While this is the first time Michael was speaking in a conference (unconf excluded), and that he disclosed it at the beginning of the talk to excuse his stress, I did actually not feel any major stress nor found him reading the slides (I guess passion took over the fear at some point quite soon after the start!).

Education is definitely a very complex topic, and a very good thing Michael did is not trying to cover everything, and demonstrate how PHPSchool is a *possible* answer to *some* of the problems.

In terms of execution, I found it flawless personally, which is really impressive given he was in the main conference room, and really found a way to connect with the attendees that were there I believe.

I did like the controversial aspect of adding Laravel at the end! The one star I removed is because while most PHP devs in a conference probably use PHPStorm, I did found the first part a bit too coupled to it, and I would have loved to see IDE/editor agnostic solutions.
Maybe a sort of live demo at some point would be nice, because... wait for the non-critical critique... the talk is too well rehearsed and polished for me with the smooth demo integrated in the slides :)

Perfect ending for such a conference. Could have been a bit longer but for the content and the story behind it, it felt ok.