PHP UK Conference 2020
2020-02-19..2020-02-21
London, United Kingdom
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who it's for
PHP developers, backend developers, devops engineers, QA engineers, software architects, engineering managers, frontend developers
topics
serverless PHP with Bref; PHP OPCache and preloading; PHP 7.4 features; GraphQL API in PHP; PHP generics today; static code analysis; testing legacy code refactoring; docker workflows for development; containerization for developers; time series data introduction; accessibility in UX design; password security practices
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Testing Hack with Hammock | Riya Dashoriya | 26m |
Introducing Hammock, a new open source mocking library for Hacklang. Hammock aims to provide disposable interfaces for mocking and spying public, protected… | ||
| Messy data != Messy code | Michelle Sanver | 45m |
Consumes messy third‑party APIs for a major Swiss retailer and runs an API kept up for over five years, upgraded to Symfony 4. Architecture stores raw provider… | ||
| Serverless PHP applications with Bref | Matthiew Napoli | 50m |
Shows PHP running on Bref on AWS Lambda with PHP FPM and Serverless Framework deployed apps and workers that actually work in production. Cold starts sit… | ||
| Testing Legacy Code: Safe Refactoring | Katy Ereira | 40m |
Argues a concrete workflow: perform tiny, safe refactors to make code testable, then add tests and repeat, avoiding full rewrites; shows tools and results… | ||
| PHP OPCache, Realpath Cache and Preloading | Jachim Coudenys | 56m |
Explains concrete fixes: realpath cache in process memory so cold FPM children rebuild paths and default size is 4MB; OPcache stores compiled opcodes in shared… | ||
| What I Learned my First Year as a Full-time Programmer | Hilary Stohs-Krause | 38m |
Harvard Business Review data show “superstar” coders hurt teams and converting them to average improves performance; an intern’s integration research actually… | ||
| Introduction to Time Series | David McKay | 44m |
Claims that Time-Series is the fastest-growing category (DBEngines) and that under 15% of teams use a TSDB lead to concrete demos: collectors and exporters… | ||
| Static Code Analysis: Judging a Forest by Its Trees | Christian Rades | 47m |
Automates boring code-review chores by running concrete tools: ECS combines PHP CS Fixer and PHP_CodeSniffer to fix style, PHPStan levels 0–8 to tune… | ||
| RTFM | Jessica Mauerhan | 29m |
Claims a personal refactor from angry know‑it‑all to deliberately kinder engineer, with concrete evidence: builds a quick web app in 45 minutes using Vue and… | ||
| In the world of Password123, be someone's #@%^)*! | Ipsha Bhidonia | 50m |
In case the talk title was too subtle, this session deals with ways to improve your security. Today authentication is evolving to keep up with enterprise and… | ||
| GraphQL API in PHP | Drishti Jain | 45m |
APIs are a trivial part of development. But there are number of challenges that come along right from data fetching to iterating over endpoints. Worry not… | ||
| The La(te)st PHP 7 — What's new in PHP 7.4 | Derrick Rethans | 50m |
PHP 7.4 adds typed properties with runtime initialization checks, allows covariant returns and contravariant arguments, introduces the Foreign Function… | ||
| PHP Generics Today (almost) | Dave Liddament | 54m |
Claim: generics add real static guarantees to PHP when combined with Psalm and PHP Stan; demo builds a generic-like Queue using docblock template annotations… | ||
| PHP, The Last True Open Source Language | Chris Tankersley | 30m |
Claims PHP remains the last true open source language and explains why with history and tooling: created in 1994 by Rasmus lair Dorf, community-led rewrites… | ||
| Killer Docker Workflows for Development | Chris Tankersley | 57m |
Argues Docker works best as a development tool when workflows are specific: build images as immutable artifacts, push them to a registry, and deploy the same… | ||
| Apps, Stacks, and Frameworks: Avoiding “Shiny Object” Syndrome | Angel Rivera | 29m |
A team replaces a relational model with MongoDB to ship a new UI, finishes early, then sees traffic degrade when 15 million documents expose terrible queries… | ||
| Containerization for Software Developers | Joel Lord | 46m |
The end is nigh. Your application is almost ready, and you will need to deploy it. And with the deployment, the endless tweaking to get everything running on… | ||
| Post Burnout Thoughts | Joel Lord | 27m |
Reports that 1 in 5 Europeans live with mental illness, links burnout to depression and to working 70 hours a week, and cites WHO/ICD recognition plus the… | ||
| Meet Johnny the Deployer | Georgiana Gligor | 39m |
A DevOps chatbot called Johnny the Deployer uses a bot framework plus Natural Language Processing (uploader names Watson) as “the brain” to map intents to… | ||
| Guidelines on Designing for Accessibility in UX Design | Christiana Unaeze | 38m |
Claims concrete wins and failures: about 1 in 5 people need accessible web content, WCAG defines A AA AAA levels, captions are required for pre recorded media… | ||
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