php[world] 2019
22 - 25 Oct 2019 at Sheraton Tysons Hotel

I really enjoyed this panel discussion. It was dynamic and engaging.

This was a great explanation of hypermedia and why to use it. The examples made it very clear.

Loved the talk! A few thoughts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem might be a good example to give to discuss the problems of managing threads. Like having threads do their own independent things is easy enough but things can get really tricky when you want the threads to start talking to one another.

Also, https://www.swoole.co.uk/ might be something you might be interested in.

Of course, you did manage to speak for most of the allotted time so maybe adding additional topics isn't such a great idea lol

Very useful learning about the different types of Doubles used in testing and how each work.

Learning that there are standards for providing data from an API was very useful. One thing you might want to add into the presentation is code example of how someone might implement an API that’s not using HATEOAS and then how you’d be able to write a more dynamic client that’s able to utilized a HATEOAS API, and how the api might change but the client doesn’t need to change.

Solid talk, though font size on slides tended to be a bit small, and ASCII art arrows on a non-monospace font looked askew a time or two. Using boring old normal arrows, or arrows that look like ASCII but are actually images, would've probably given you enough room to bump font sizes. Also didn't realize that the focus of the talk was quite so devops-heavy...which was fine, but either I missed the expectation-setting in the talk abstract or the abstract didn't include that info.

Venue-wise, the projection screen was 16:9 but slides were 4:3; not sure what aspect ratio the projector actually had. If it could do 16:9, that would've also provided enough slide width to make things a bit more legible.

Finally, Fairfax B with the specified seating setup was a bit of an eco chamber, but very much not the speaker's fault so no demerits for that.

Really appreciated the speaker energy to deliver her talk. Her enthusiasm on the subject made a very fun and enjoyable conference. Thanks!

Relevant examples, entertaining slides, and many resources and anecdotes provided to drive home his point. My only other comment is sometimes Andrew did not enunciate or spoke under his breathe a bit making some parts difficult to hear.

Clearly knowledgeable and a great resource for enums. I will definitely be considering writing my own enum or using an existing library moving forward until one is provided inherently with PHP.

Introduced very useful tools. The talk had funny moments as well.