ScotlandPHP 2016
29 Oct 2016 at Dynamic Earth

Interesting case study and good delivery despite obvious nerves

Great detailed talk, performance numbers and practical info on php7.

On the train back home, I was sat near a party of 50yo birthday revellers who got onto the subject of Brexit, which got quite heated in their opposing views. After Jessica's talk about social groups and fandoms, I listened to their arguments in a completely new light, without feeling the need to throw someone off the bridge at Berwick-upon-Tweed. I didn't expect that from a PHP conference! Great talk.

This talk had plenty of time for questions, and there were plenty of questions to fill that slot - ALL expertly answered. A great talk whizzing us through the new JSON features of MySQL 8, how it is handled internally, and what to expect next as it continues to be developed.

Tim Lytle was wondering why we weren't very interactive. I think it was because minds were being overloaded with the fantastic range of tools available and demonstrated to us in this live-coding talk. Never taken so many notes :-) Just being introduced to API proxies to monitor the flow over an API was a revelation. Thank you.

Brought home the why, the how, and what the reality of continuous deployment looks like in teams of all sizes.

Helped to put the whole idea of microservices into a solid implementation approach. I went in with a vague idea of what it is, and came out with a real good understanding. It focused a lot on the trade-offs that are made, which is great because that's the stuff we need to know when setting out the design for a new project.

Kind of been putting up updating many legacy applications, but this demonstration of the fantastic memory and latency improvements have convinced me that it's a job I need to start this week. I could save money on hosting that the conference cost - value for money or what? Great talk.

Excellent. If your developing API's and you need to debug stuff then you need to see this talk!

I'll definitely take some of the tools suggested by this talk and put them into practice.

Made me think about automating more things and the pitfalls that automation can cause in some cases.

When I seen that Michael had written a book on Ansible I was really hoping there would be a decent amount of this talk covering Ansible however that wasn't the case. I think the talk would definitely benefit by including some real-word automation examples.