php|tek '12
22 - 25 May 2012 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

Excellent summary of the basics of SimpleDB. We got a little bogged down with questions from the crowd, but that just shows how interested the crowd was with what was being presented.

This was excellent - Ed was super insightful & has clearly thought about how to approach his concerns in a constructive way. I love that his voice is out there in the community, this is a thought-provoking conversation that I'm excited see play out.

Good lookin chap with lots of good things to say.

Great talk. Would have been nice on how to actually setup and run it in production. Otherwise it had some great insights on how to and what to chart and graph.

Excellent talk, and I definitely walked away with some ideas for my team's monitoring stack. I would have liked to have seen more code examples of collecting data from multiple sources, and different types of data, and less about "why" monitoring is important.

Great talk, Neal! It was full of great info on the why and what of Graphite, but I was wishing for more of the how (i.e. practical setup stuff)

Informative introduction. Super awesome slides, and it was cool to see the real-time demo at the end.

Great start to the conference for me—on a philosophical note. I wish people were less defensive of frameworks and more understanding of the message Ed seems to be bringing across. Great thoughts, and a brave stance to take in this over-engineered bloated framework landscape.

This may be his first conference presentation, but Neal is clearly comfortable in front of an audience. He took a variety of questions from the audience, as they arose, and this did not get him off-track during his talk. He knew the subject of his talk thoroughly, but was comfortable asking the audience members what they were doing in terms of performance monitoring, also. He could make this a workshop with no trouble.