PHP UK Conference 2022
2022-02-16..2022-02-18
London, United Kingdom
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who it's for
PHP developers, backend engineers, platform engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, QA engineers, open source maintainers
topics
PHP 8.1 language features; Fibers cooperative multitasking; Bref on AWS Lambda; ECS Fargate container deployments; OpenAPI design and validation; Passwordless WebAuthn authentication; advanced static analysis tooling; API integration testing practices; contract testing with mock servers; web scraping techniques; open source governance and SBOM
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Never stop learning, how curiosity and cross pollination drives innovation-Pauline Vos - PHP UK 2022 | Pauline Vos | 28m |
A concise tour of concrete origins and results: the frequency-hopping patent ties the 1924 Ballet Mechanic score to a working prototype fed by an 88-frequency… | ||
| What's New in PHP 8.1 | Derick Rethans | 47m |
Covers concrete, engine-level changes with code examples and demo outputs so watchers learn what actually works now: Enumerations with backed values and… | ||
| Embrace the Pitfalls (Our stop start journey to Change) | Stacy Cashmore | 50m |
A team chronicles a year of CI/CD work that starts with brittle PowerShell scripts and a two-line hotfix that exposes missing visibility then shifts to… | ||
| Container-native without k8s: PHP in ECS on AWS | Ian Littman | 01h 05m |
Choice made on specifics: a tiny PHP app for Covie is built, pushed to ECR, and deployed to an ECS cluster on Fargate following nine easy steps to get an ALB… | ||
| Improve your API and OpenAPI | Rob Allen | 43m |
OpenAPI drives a design‑first HTTP API workflow that produces docs, mocks and automated checks: the rock paper scissors example yields a spec, Redoc HTML docs… | ||
| Technically speaking: Improve Your Code With Documentation | Alexandra White | 01h 14m |
Claims six actionable takeaways and that writing while building prevents future toil and support emails, with concrete examples: comments that explain… | ||
| Going serverless with PHP and Bref.sh | Mike Lehan | 02h 08m |
Shows that PHP runs on AWS Lambda using Bref on AWS Lambda and the Serverless framework, migrates a Slim app (no sessions, logs to stderr, /tmp ephemeral) and… | ||
| Make me a JS Object Model | Milko Kosturkov | 39m |
Claims full JavaScript object semantics get reproduced in PHP by implementing magic __call and __get methods, using bindTo closures for this/context, and… | ||
| Passwords are so 1990 - Sam Bellen - PHP UK 2022 | Sam Bellen | 39m |
Claims passwordless login replaces passwords using public/private keys, demonstrates registration and login with a Web Authentication API flow (JS calls like… | ||
| Open Source is Good for Business | Lorna Jane Mitchell | 34m |
Open source delivers concrete business wins: 89% of UK firms already use it and it speeds innovation while improving security. Inventory code, produce an SBOM… | ||
| PHP Fibers | Milko Kosturkov | 51m |
Claim: Fibers in PHP 8.1 let single-threaded code suspend and resume so async I/O looks synchronous. Demonstration builds a proof‑of‑concept framework: an… | ||
| Managing from 1 to 1 million Kubernetes Clusters | Bastian Hofmann | 56m |
Claim that a single control plane can provision and operate from a laptop to one million clusters gets tested with concrete steps: install k3s in seconds… | ||
| Technical scoping like a pro to build the right thing & be a superhero- Chandeep Khosa - PHP UK 2022 | Chandeep Khosa | 30m |
Claims that rigorous technical scoping prevents late nights and broken projects by forcing concrete outputs: a written brief, a short discovery phase, named… | ||
| Hop on the PHP Blockchain rocket to the MOON! | Drishti Jain | 50m |
Demonstrates a working PHP blockchain implementation with block objects (data, hash, previousHash), a genesis block and merkle root, and a proof‑of‑work demo… | ||
| Practical Advanced Static Analysis | Dave Liddament | 50m |
Advanced static analysis actually finds real bugs and evolvability defects: tools like PHPStan and Psalm (about 230-240 rules each) run over code, use plugins… | ||
| Levelling Up Your Web Scraping Game | Ian Littman | 01h 01m |
Shows concrete choices and outcomes: prefer replaying HTTP requests over firing browsers, measures headless cost (≈250 meg RAM) and wraps puppeteer with a node… | ||
| From Betamax to VCR: harden your API integration testing | James Seconde | 46m |
Mocking hand‑written JSON fixtures causes silent false positives when the external API quietly changes; the practical fix shown is PHP-VCR which records real… | ||
| Leading in Tech | Michael Cullum | 43m |
Argues leadership is for the people being led not the leader, and lays out concrete roles: mentor, tech lead, principal/staff, public leader, manager and… | ||
| How to really work as a team- from sleepy to strong pair programming | Stacy Cashmore | 56m |
Teams move from bored to productive by changing how pairing actually works not by preaching collaboration Specifics: reduced WIP to 1–2 stories when mobbing… | ||
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