SunshinePHP 2018
8 - 10 Feb 2018 at Embassy Suites Miami International

Great way to start a conference off, getting shouted at in Klingon. ;)

I was able to install all of the requirements ahead, but unfortunately I didn't use them during the session. It was way too fast for me. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get everything setup. I did like how comprehensive this talk was regarding api->test->documentation->web->mobile to get a really nice picture of all of the pieces, but it wasn't really hands-on due to how fast it went. I did think that it was well prepared and organized as far as the slides and topics flowed.

I was able to get all of the prep work set up beforehand, but it took a bit of sleuthing on my end (more so than I expected). Christian was very knowledgeable about how the apps were set up but went through the talk too quickly. If he is limited in time again, I would suggest dropping out one or two aspects/components of the talk, maybe the sencha bit. I would recommend some additional details as far as set up, specifically with file structure and app dependencies.

It was a good intro to Postman and Apigility. I look forward to investigating how to use them both in future projects thanks to this talk.

Great introduction to PHPUnit. Would have liked to see some more examples of how Mockery specifically integrates with PHPUnit. Didn't have time to look into Codeception, but gave a brief overview that made me want to investigate myself.

The description of the talk did not match the actual presentation. No information was presented that couldn't already be considered "common sense". The single example of SQL code came from the 90's and the only mention of tools/scanners was as an aside while talking about the OWASP website. Online security is a huge concern and developers definitely need education about threats but this was not the place to get that. It felt like this was a recycled presentation that was originally intended for non-computer folks, it was certainly not aimed at seasoned or even casual developers.

Nicely lays out when optimization is worth the time!

The presenter provided a great overview of the AWS services that could be used to host high performance PHP applications. The details of the various services aren't covered but it's a good place to start to get your head around the myriad of offerings from Amazon.

This was a really unique talk and allowed me to look through a different lens when it came to debugging. I was expecting it to be more technical, so maybe the title/summary could express that a little better.

Good talk on comparison of different approaches. The comparison could benefit strongly from discussion around long running vs short running processes and the appropriateness of serverless approaches in stateful vs stateless applications.

Really nice talk that went deeper on caching than most do. Grounded it out a bit when trying to explain what a secondary cache is and what problem it solves, which never really happened. Lots of great examples and otherwise clear delivery.