php[tek] 2015
18 - 22 May 2015 at Sheraton Gateway Suites O’Hare

great lecture. Appreciated the content

Good content. Right mix of depth and breadth.

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thank you so much for your work on xdebug and for the demo of vld. my team has been talking about "branch/path coverage" for a while now but we never had a name for it. thank you! i'm looking forward to using these tools in the future : )

Great intro-level talk. Hands on exercise were helpful. Perhaps update those and reveal pseudo-code halfway through so learners can check their logic and self-correct. Also, a few of the points would be better represented visually than graphically (e.g. interactions between MVC elements).

good intro to react with a nice demo!

ProTip from Steve: "Just run really fast database queries"!! Great presentation. Thanks!

Very well done and well documented.

Good presentation. Thanks for putting it together.

Some of the slides were a little dense with information and you moved past them quickly. Sometimes it was tough to correlate your narrative with the slides and their structure. The information had good real-world context though.

It seemed like you "gave up" on the relational databases a little easily with respect to handling a variety of schema, though. Couldn't you accept incoming data in a variety of formats with different tables and then stitch the data together for reporting purposes?

Also, you cite the relational database as a single point of failure for data collection, and then mitigated your MongoDB single point of failure by having the relational database receive the data while MongoDB was down. Couldn't you just have had two relational databases, and if the primary went down, have the data access layer store incoming results in temporary relational storage to be moved back to the primary when it came back up?

These are minor quibbles with what was otherwise very informative and interesting. Thanks again.

Can we get a link to your slides?