Lorna Jane Mitchell
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where they keep going back
- PHP UK Conference6 editions2014–2025
- Write the Docs Atlantic2 editions2023–2024
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who talks about the same things
- Chris Ward18 talks
- Mike Lehan8 talks
- Rob Allen18 talks
- PJ Hagerty26 talks
- Paul Ganssle8 talks
- Gary Hockin14 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| What’s new in OpenAPI 3.2 | apidays London 2025 | 2025-09-22 |
OpenAPI 3.2 (released recently) adds concrete features: a new HTTP query method and an operations field for custom methods; parameters can be in: query string… | ||
| OpenAPI for Web Developers | PHP UK Conference 2025 | 2025-02-19 |
OpenAPI gets used as a real pipeline artifact here not just a spec file: code can generate from code or be sniffed by Optic to bootstrap a description… | ||
| DevOps Your Docs | Write the Docs Atlantic 2024 | 2024-09-22 |
Requires text-based markup, Git for version history, and a tiny initial config committed to the repo; run the same checks locally and in continuous integration… | ||
| OpenAPI for Documentarians | Write the Docs Atlantic 2023 | 2023-09-10 |
Explains concrete practices not platitudes: shows a folded-yaml visualization, recommends editors and plugins (VS Code, linting, CI), names tooling sources… | ||
| Engineering Documentation | YOW! Melbourne 2022 | 2022-12-08 |
Adopts a docs-as-code workflow with content in a public GitHub repo, Sphinx + reStructuredText, and branch-based launches so changes preview as full-site… | ||
| Engineering Documentation | GOTO Copenhagen 2022 | 2022-10-03 |
Company docs move into a code workflow: content lives in GitHub, builds with Sphinx from reStructuredText, uses docs-as-code and continuous integration to run… | ||
| Open Source is Good for Business | PHP UK Conference 2022 | 2022-02-16 |
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… | ||
| Interactive Session: Optimising data streaming pipelines on Flink and Kafka | Flink Forward Global 2021 | 2021-10-18 |
Practical tips for running Flink with Kafka: watch for skewed partitions—one hot partition can break both Kafka and Flink; fix producer keying or rebalance… | ||
| Introduction to AsyncAPI for Apache Kafka | ApacheCon@Home 2021 | 2021-09-21 |
AsyncAPI v2.0 describes Kafka brokers, topics and message payloads so a single YAML can generate docs and runnable clients. The demo uses @asyncapi/generator… | ||
| Go Big with Apache Kafka | Conf42 Golang 2021 | 2021-06-24 |
Introduces a Go producer and consumer using the Confluent Go client and mentions sarama, shows code that serializes machine sensor structs to JSON and to Avro… | ||
| Designing Payloads for Event-Driven Systems | Berlin Buzzwords 2021 | 2021-06-15 |
Design payloads for Kafka by sending non-essential metadata in headers, using the key to shard/order across partitions, and keeping the root an object — never… | ||
| Introduction to Timeseries Databases | phpday 2021 | 2021-06-08 |
Claims a relational DB often suffices while specialist tooling buys scale: Postgres often suffices; use TimescaleDB to add time_bucket and continuous… | ||
| Designing Payloads for Event-Driven Systems | GopherCon Europe 2021 | 2021-05-26 |
Practical rules for Apache Kafka payloads: use apache kafka keys and headers (route partitions, put small lookup-friendly metadata in headers), always send a… | ||
| Create delightful SDKs from OpenAPI | Apidays LIVE Paris 2020 | 2020-12-08 |
Generates a Go SDK for the Vonage Verify API using openapi-generator.tech inside Docker, producing client code and strongly typed models but leaving… | ||
| The State of OpenAPI Specification: what's new in 3.1 | Apidays LIVE Paris 2020 | 2020-12-08 |
OpenAPI 3.1 arrives imminently (RC1 available, general release estimated January) and makes three concrete changes: full compatibility with JSON Schema 2020-12… | ||
| Getting started with Voice API | Vonage Campus 2019 | 2019-10-29 |
"This hands-on workshop will introduce you to the Voice API, teaching you to build an application to answer a voice call, interact with your user, and direct… | ||
| A Meritocracy of Pull Requests | PHP Yorkshire 2019 | 2019-04-03 |
Argues that pull requests succeed on concrete hygiene: keep them small, close or split giant rewrites, and prefer the reviewer to merge to avoid stale WIP and… | ||
| Working with Webhooks | Sunshine PHP Developers 2019 | 2019-02-07 |
This session gives examples of webhooks currently in use "in the wild", and examines both when a webhook is useful and the internal design and structuring of… | ||
| Working with Webhooks | PHP UK Conference 2018 | 2018-02-14 |
A retro guestbook is built that emits real webhooks, with publishing via a queued pipeline using RabbitMQ queue per endpoint to avoid thundering‑herd spikes… | ||
| OfflineFirst Apps with PouchDB and CouchDB | Front End North 2018 | 2018-01-19 |
Demo shows a local PouchDB-powered shopping list that syncs to CouchDB/Cloudant and keeps browsers consistent after offline edits, proving replication actually… | ||
| The Future of Functions | Codemotion Milan 2017 | 2017-11-10 |
Explains why Functions as a Service (FaaS / Serverless) matters: pay-per-execution pricing, short-lived functions (typically seconds to a few minutes), and… | ||
| Lorna Mitchell - Codemotion Milan 2017 - Interview | Codemotion Milan 2017 | 2017-11-10 |
Argues that serverless lowers upfront costs and lets teams deploy prototypes, small APIs and variable‑traffic services without managing servers, using… | ||
| Becoming Polyglot | Codemotion Milan 2017 | 2017-11-10 |
Argues that becoming polyglot follows a concrete ten-level progression from “make the code run” to “dream in the language,” with actionable steps: level 1 run… | ||
| Fun With Serverless Javascript | Nordic.js 2017 | 2017-09-07 |
Argues serverless shifts ops to pay-per-run functions and gives concrete tooling and cost details: billing in gigabyte-seconds and many free invocations… | ||
| CouchDB, PouchDB and Offline-Tolerant Apps | Dutch PHP Conference 2017 | 2017-06-29 |
CouchDB is presented as a fault-tolerant JSON document store with an HTTP API, changes feed for replication, and MapReduce/Javascript views; Mango provides… | ||
| The wonderful world of webhooks | The Lead Developer 2016 | 2016-06-23 |
States that webhooks are pubsub over HTTP, not polling, so servers push events and clients just reply 200; GitHub webhooks include a verbose JSON payload (the… | ||
| "Welcome to Codemotion!" | Codemotion Amsterdam 2016 | 2016-05-11 |
Multitrack conference at unexpected scale with tightly run logistics and consistently full rooms; attendees come from many countries and cities including Rome… | ||
| Surviving Code Reviews | Codemotion Rome 2016 | 2016-03-18 |
Practical checklist for pull requests: include only the right files, link a single issue, and keep changes small (one example was a 37,000‑line refactor that… | ||
| What To Expect From PHP7 | Codemotion Rome 2016 | 2016-03-18 |
PHP 7 delivers a major real‑world change: engine rewrites yield large speedups (bench.php shows dramatic reductions in runtime) and introduce an abstract… | ||
| What To Expect From PHP7 | PHP UK Conference 2016 | 2016-02-18 |
PHP 7 lands with major measurable wins: big speed and memory reductions comparable to HHVM, new AST-based compile step, and real-world benchmarks showing large… | ||
| Advanced GIT for Developers | Laracon EU 2015 | 2015-08-24 |
Covers concrete Git techniques and internals: explains objects and that branches are plain pointers, shows how git add -p stages hunks, demonstrates resolving… | ||
| How To Get Your Patch Accepted | FrOSCon 2015 | 2015-08-22 |
Three concrete things decide acceptance: correct, tested, minimal code; clear words explaining what changed and why i care; and alignment with project… | ||
| What's new in PHP | PHP UK Conference 2015 | 2015-02-18 |
Recent PHP versions deliver concrete gains: object-heavy code runs up to twice as fast versus 5.3 and typical memory drops ~20–30%, opcache is built in (but… | ||
| Debugging HTTP | PHP UK Conference 2014 | 2014-02-21 |
A practical playbook for finding where HTTP fails: use curl with -v -H -d and a cookie jar to reproduce requests and see headers, pipe JSON through python -m… | ||
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