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

It's always interesting to attend a presentation on a topic you know a fair bit about. I loved Andrea's approach and style. Thank you!

Learning YAGNI is generally a multi-year process for most developers. I think it's in the programmer's nature to want to make the most robust and feature heavy software since it's something they can be proud of. This talk really goes into the cons of doing such, and the benefits of pragmatic, simple changes that can be iterated upon to create the software that the business needs.

Jason really explained the benefits of doing the minimal, effective and ultimately correct amount of work one step at a time. Great talk!

Great workshop, cant wwait to start using what i learned

Learned alot, would have liked to see some real world examples of when to use different options

It was really nice being able to see at a high level the benefits of using different databases. I think I will actually need a document database. Right now I'm shoehorning the data into my relational setup and it may simplify a lot of complications to just put that data off into an engine meant to parse it. Something I never would have known to look for without this talk! Thanks!

Very well done, I enjoyed it

Loved this - a clear demonstration of how a little bit of optimization applied in the right places can make a tremendous difference. I particularly appreciated the information about the tools for finding out where that optimization is needed and am looking forward to exploring those and digging into a few of the projects that I work on with them.
The presentation was clear and engaging, quite a feat at the end of a long weekend when everyone is tired.

I found this talk very engaging. He was clearly passionate about the subject and extremely knowledgeable on it. As an "old school" programmer, I was curious about the new use of the term "functional programming" that I've heard so many younger developers use - for me, it has a very different definition (the term has been used synonymously with procedural programming historically). It's going to require a mental shift to separate the two for the old school non-javascript crowd.

I wish I had been more familiar with ES6/ES7 going in so that I could have followed the examples better, but I think I walked away with a much better understanding of what the goals of the new functional techniques are. I do wish the examples had been in PHP (or shown with the PHP alternative version) even without the arrow operators so that the non-javascript crew could have understood more clearly.

I hope that the slides are shared at some point, because I was hoping to study them in depth to cement my understanding of the numerous terms presented.

Great talk. A lot of thoughtful information about building a great API.

Excellent talk. I learned a lot about the basics of cryptography and thoroughly enjoyed it. My only criticism is the speed in which some of the examples on the slides of keys and secrets where covered. It felt a bit rushed for a beginner but over all awesome job.