php[tek] 2024
23 - 25 Apr 2024 at Sheraton O’Hare Hotel

Great talk covering a lot of approaches to optimizing your PHP application to function better at scale. I will begin load testing my apps against 20 quadrillion ants! ^_^

Excellent dive into security concerns. It was easy to follow and very informative.

I think the technical difficulties shook Andy, but the talk was full of great background and clever uses of enums. As usual, Andy knows his stuff!

This talk would have been great for a bunch of soon to be college grads who had minimal experience outside of college - like the presenter - but was a complete mismatch for people who have been in industry for years.

For a specific example, saying "I know what it's like being a software engineer" after one internship is disingenuous at best. As Steve noted below, she spoke as if she had years of experience in the field and did not.

Career advice from someone who hasn't started theirs isn't useful.

Outstanding presentation and amazing content. I was most impressed with the deep discussion of mentorship - and the suggestion that in-person attendees could find mentors in the room!

Great way to introduce concepts built upon design patterns that, while they've existed and been well documented for decades, engineers still aim to reinvent.

Learned a lot about Xdebug, a tool I use every day at work. The talk was easy to follow along and was informative and humorous as well.

My brains hurts now. The tutorial itself was good. The PHP API is an absolute mess. I don't hold that against Derick, though. :-)

The content itself was good. It didn't really feel "advanced" though. The benefits of DI are beginner testing material, as are mocks. I'd rather have spent the whole session on the last 2 topics, DBs and 3ed parties, and the different levels and approaches for them.

As an intro or intermediate talk, this would have been great.

Great debugging insights from the developer who wrote the tool—this is the kind of value you get from php[tek]!