True North PHP 2016
3 - 5 Nov 2016
at Microsoft Canada
Talk comments
Great talk - many useful tricks.
Really good live coding. You did it great - as good as your previous presentations.
Beau's workshop on CQRS and Event Sourcing was very complete and objective. I found some parts of it, specifically the test-driven code samples, a little difficult to understand but I believe that was due to a lack of experience on my part with some of the challenges that these approaches address.
I would definitely recommend this workshop for anyone who has experience with some of the challenges that Beau talks about, such as persisting last known state, and who has experience with domain-driven design. The code samples and test-driven approach was a great thing to see as well!
This talk was good but there's room for improvement. I think that you should skip most of the talk introduction - try to make company story shorter. Avoid reading from screen and try to be more engaged with audience instead. Talk content was very interesting.
Awesome introduction to DDD concept.
Great talk - very well delivered.
The workshop that Josh gave had a very low barrier to entry and a very practical, spoken from experience approach.
He gave a thorough enough explanation of both Docker and Docker Compose to have a good starting point with both technologies with the occasional bit of knowledge related to running these technologies in production on a large scale application(s).
As a beginner to practically using containers I really enjoyed this approach.
Beau gave a great talk on the various inversion of control implementations in the variety of modern PHP frameworks. I found it to be very approachable and the Laravel code samples really helped understand the tradeoffs between some of those implementations.
As Beau eludes to near the beginning of the talk the information that he presents is applicable to a broader software design perspective, not just to working with Laravel or other PHP frameworks.
A great overview of the current options for hosting an internal packagist repository. Specifically, the speaker does a good and thorough job of covering satis, how it works, how to point a composer-based project at it, and some of the infrastructure concerns of hosting it internally. He also covers some of the limitations of Satis that are improved upon by the commercial offering of Toran Proxy.
Do you want an approachable and practical introduction to graph databases, specifically with Neo4j?
If you said yes then this is the talk for you. Ed gave an objective explanation of what graph databases can do, the tradeoffs associated with using them, and their use case as compared to traditional RDBMSs. Ed Finkler is definitely an engaging speaker.