php|tek 11
24 - 27 May 2011 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Good talk! The answer to the question about downtime mitigation would be great in the presentation itself, as I think it's one of the greatest fears.

Good overview of using cloud services for applications. This talk is a good starting point for people wanting to get started with cloud stuff. "Make sure your architecture allows for using clouds services" is something that seems so obvious now that you mentioned it, but not something I had explicitly thought about before.

I really enjoyed your talk, especially the portion about PaaS. You mentioned 2 young platforms as a service (phpfog, and orchestra.io). I recently found another one that also looks really interesting, http://www.pagodabox.com, and just thought I would throw it out as another potential option.

Great speech! We got some great tips on how to communicate with our clients. I especially liked the analogy at the end with, Why use the cloud? Do you keep your money in a sock in a drawer?

I very much appreciated the hard, concrete definitions at the beginning of the talk. Thanks!

Excellent talk with lots of great tips and tricks. Slides are a great resource of debugging tools.

Great overview of all the things you need to take into consideration when targeting mobile. Good balance of just enough information to get you headed in the right direction without going too deeply in to each part.

Great,
I really enjoyed it, thanks you !

Overall it was a good presentation. I know a 3 hour tutorial can be a daunting task and a lot of work. It was obvious the presenter was familiar with several NoSQL solutions and their history, and was experienced with CouchDB. I know by the half way mark I was looking forward to haking with CouchDB when I found some time to. You could tell some thought and effort went into the slides by the presenter.

The second half of the presentation, I felt, lost a little bit of the focus. I believe the overall reason for this was because Benjamin knew so many little details about the different nuances of CouchDB, he seemed to talk more about the tiny details instead of staying focused on the primary points and let audience questions bring up some of the tinier nuances. Ultimately, we ran out of time and I had to leave before we could play around with the CouchDB Replication, which would have been fun to experience.

My recommendation to the presenter would be this: Keep the first part the same, it was on point and very informative. Then, figure out the main points you want to discuss in the second half and have pre-built, simplified examples of these points. Let questions control the depth of the explanations. I know it can be a lot of work to get these examples setup, but it pays off in being able to keep the audience's attention and draw out questions. Then, at the end have a more full circle example putting all the principles together. My personal opinion is it is always better to err on the side of finishing earlier than running out of time.

With just a little bit more organization and focus on the second half, this tutorial can go from being good and informative to great and interactive. I hope the presenter doesn't feel offended about my opinion, but rather just some ideas to help focus and improve the presentation.

Thanks Benjamin for the presentation. :)

Very Helpful! Thanks <3