php[world] 2018
12 - 15 Nov 2018 at Westin Dulles

(First thought: bummer that he didn't talk about Windows! Or maybe I need to get off of Windows...?)

This was an excellent long-form blog post, but not so well suited for a talk. I'd recommend that if the speaker does this talk again that he streamline it to show just the "success path" rather than showing everything that can go wrong, step through the commands more quickly, and discuss the gotchas at the end. OR, better yet, use the "workshop" format and have the audience come ready to Dockerize a project of their own. The speaker had a good stage presence, was confident, spoke clearly, and kept things moving along.

The speaker highlighted the importance of soft skills within the code review process: humility, collaboration, recognizing that any dev can benefit from reviewing any other dev's code. I'm going to do better with making "atomic" commits and also looking at the full commit history of a pull request to better understand the other dev's thought process.

This talk was probably equally useful for dev teams with a review process already in place as well as for teams without any review process at all. Well done!

Our team really took to the concept of "resiliency vs reliability". The speaker broke it down into easily understood concepts and his demo really drove his points home. We'll consider implementing his circuit breaker pattern in our own system next year. He set a high bar for the rest of the talks; this one was possibly the best one that I attended. Kudos!

This was a solid presentation given by an engaging and effective speaker and really got the conference off on the right foot. I enjoyed how he challenged us to re-think the "construction" metaphor for system architecture. I and probably some of the audience would have appreciated a focus on "how to go from being a coder to being an architect."

This was a good introduction to Elasticsearch for people who haven't worked with it before. I found it very helpful in deciding whether or not I want to incorporate Elasticsearch into my next data project.

Great content! I learned quite a bit about Docker

Thank you for your feedback, Brian. Here's an article that you might find of interest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/business/at-aetna-a-ceos-management-by-mantra.html

I thought this was a good high-level overview of the various authentication options. Joel did a great job summarizing those options and their pros/cons.

However, I did feel it was a little too high-level and could have gone into more detail on the code implementation. Also, the magic link example relied on the uniqid() function which does guarantee uniqueness, which could lead to some security issues for anyone implementing that code as-is in production.

Nevertheless, I did learn a good bit, and with a little refinement this could easily be a 4- or 5-star talk!

Eric did a fantastic job distilling the complexities of modern PHP crypto into an easy-to-understand 50-minute talk.

There was a lot of information provided and a lot of useful information. However there was too much information for the 50 minute time slot. I think that there could have been a significant amount of the details that could have been put off as further research for the audience. For the first time given talk I thought it went well. I would recommend working toward trimming down the talk and moving more some of the details to links for further research.