Liam Wiltshire
where else to find them
github:liam-wiltshire
bluesky:w.iltshi.re
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- PHP UK Conference5 editions2015–2019
on a stage with
- Archie Stonehillonce
- Chloe Caveonce
- Conor McLaughlinonce
all 4 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Peter Gerson4 talks
- Conor McLaughlin3 talks
- Archie Stonehill8 talks
- Miikka Luotio5 talks
- Thomas Huxter5 talks
- Sam Gaglani3 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Panel: The Future Of Monetisation: Is Now The Time To Take Advantage Of Direct-To-Consumer? | Pocket Gamer Connects London 2026 | 2026-01-19 |
Panel discussion gives concrete takeaways: Android is actively changing rules with an external content links Jan 28 filing and a court hearing on Jan 22, so… | ||
| Session: D2C Monetisation: A Cost-Saving Shift Or Something More? | Pocket Gamer Connects London 2026 | 2026-01-19 |
Tebex argues D2C is more than fee savings: it requires building orchestration for payments, routing optimization across card, wallet and local providers, and… | ||
| Learning The Hows and Whys of Machine Learning | PHP UK Conference 2019 | 2019-02-20 |
Tebex uses a data set of 18 million payments and iterates: a naive Bayes prototype fails on highly imbalanced data (2.8M good vs ~24k chargebacks), so… | ||
| London Calling: Creating a customisable, multi-tenanted i18n solution | PHP UK Conference 2018 | 2018-02-14 |
Buycraft serves ~500,000 Minecraft webstores and has handled 16 million payments across 255 countries so a bespoke i18n layer is built: JSON locale files per… | ||
| Adventures in MySQL | Dutch PHP Conference 2017 | 2017-06-29 |
Modern MySQL adds concrete tools: a native JSON column stored binary with JSON_EXTRACT and ->/->> operators, spatial types with spherical functions (5.7) for… | ||
| Introduction to application scaling | PHP UK Conference 2017 | 2017-02-16 |
Platform serves about half a million requests an hour with regular 3–5× spikes and a surprise peak of 1.2M/hr that made a customer $200,000. Practical fixes… | ||
| Got 15 Minutes? | PHP UK Conference 2016 | 2016-02-18 |
Claims that tiny time investments matter with numbers: 600–700 PHP questions on Stack Exchange per day, 15 minutes a week from a room of 700 people totals… | ||
| PHP's biggest bottleneck, MySQL | PHP UK Conference 2015 | 2015-02-18 |
Claim: PHP slowness often traces to MySQL not PHP. Practical fixes and measurements include adding indexes to cut a 25,000-row lookup from ~0.3–0.6s to… | ||
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