ZendCon 2013
7 - 10 Oct 2013 at Santa Clara, CA Convention Center

The new features of PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 were simple and nothing new, but the discussion about the new PHP RFC process and what we can expect for a velocity and future of PHP was informative.

Nice talk. good coverage of all the other tools besides phpunit. Michelangelo is very knowledgeable on the topic and provided useful information in followup questions. I learned stuff.

Would it be possible to provide slides please, thanks.

A good talk with lots of good info. A bit more emphasis might have been placed on the big picture, up front, to set the stage.

A very high-level overview of DevOps with a "Click Deploy, See how easy that was" demonstration of Jenkins, Phing, and Zend Server.

Very fast delivery to cover a lot of material. When it was done I was left thinking..."Wow, that was a lot of information" Good takeaways that I will be able to implement in our group immediately.

A normal talk - not bad, not excellent. While a good insight into Google technologies, but many conclusions and predictions are objectionable.

I'd object, that outsourcing infrastructure to a specialized company, makes it more resource efficient. There are many examples, when privately managed things show much more better results - you can even recall the last century's global competition of capitalism vs communism, and the results - who won.

Also the slide with "core business logic" was quite an opinion-manipulating by showing the main logic (usually what developers do) as too small one in comparison to other technologies around it. While infrastructure definitely matters, but for vast majority of projects the business logic is not of 1/30 of other tech-related stuff, which was shown on the slide just to impress the audience.

It was nice to got some ideas on possible further development of our industry. And it was great to get knowledge on some tasks of a big scales, that are solved by Google. Without a person from inside, we cannot imagine that, because everybody of us has his own tasks in his everyday work, and we cannot imagine others' challenges if he wouldn't tell us about them. So it was valuable.

It was also interesting to see Google's (or its high tech manager's) point of view on cloud, PHP, networks and services they are giving to developers. However, we should not forget, that it is a keynote public talk, so there is a lot of marketing stuff in it. And overall in a modern world - everything can change much in a day. Thus anything said may be important, and may be not at all (and never developed) - 50/50. Personally I lacked the inspiration from the talk, which was marked as a keynote for this conference.

Good talk, nice conversational style. Network problems that weren't really John's fault. We're doing everything with Chef, but it was nice to see how it works with Puppet too. Got a lot of good information from the talk. Thanks.

Great talk! Enjoyed the overview at first, but the talk perhaps got a little too detailed with the step by step commands. More discussion of abstract concepts and best practices around Jenkins and CI would be nice - there was time left over. I would also like the slides.

Thanks