PHP fwdays'20 | Special edition
2020-06-06
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who it's for
php developers, backend developers, engineering managers, software architects, devops engineers, qa engineers
topics
PHP 8 JIT in opcache; PHP attributes via reflection; union and mixed types; constructor property promotion; WeakMap and resource migrations; Composer v2 deduplicated metadata; Serverless PHP on AWS Lambda; Bref runtime layers; PHPUnit createStub and createMock; testing with fakes and proxies; DDD event storming and context maps; mentoring for tech retention
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What's new in PHP 8.0? | Nikita Popov | 51m |
Clear takeaways: PHP 8 ships a working JIT in opcache that yields modest wins—expect 5–10% speedup for most code, larger for numeric workloads; attributes as… | ||
| Avoiding Mockageddon | Sebastian Bergmann | 51m |
Argues that excessive mocking makes refactoring slow and tests brittle, notes real cases with 50 or 60 stubs/mocks in one test suite, and shows concrete… | ||
| Live interview of Jordi Boggiano | Jordi Boggiano | 53m |
Live interview covers concrete outcomes not slogans: Composer v2 alpha with deduplicated JSON metadata that cuts network and memory costs, splits dev vs… | ||
| Serverless PHP Applications | Rob Allen | 59m |
Claims: serverless costs nothing while idle except storage, has cold start latency, enforced time limits (typical <5 minutes), and requires external state… | ||
| A live dialogue "DDD: You're doing it wrong" | Marco Pivetta, Pim Elshoff | 50m |
Live dialogue argues DDD succeeds or fails on concrete things: whether event storming and context maps capture the real constraints, whether persistence… | ||
| The Knowledge Grows | Beth Tucker Long | 49m |
Tech talent gaps and churn are concrete: 65% of CIOs see recruitment hurting projects and tech turnover hits 13.2%, so mentoring becomes a measurable fix —… | ||
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