2019 Talks
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Hello my name is "if"
Sebastian Feldmann
Lead Technical Advisor @ CHECK24
Me and my little brothers 'else', 'elseif' and my bigger sister 'switch' are most likely all over your codebase.
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Application Metrics (with Prometheus examples)
Rafael Dohms
Lead Backend Engineer @ Usabilla
We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover various Site Reliability Engineering topics, such as SLIs and SLOs while we explore real life examples of defining and implementing metrics in a system with examples using Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to demonstrate implementation. Let's get back to some real science.
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Be nice, help the person who hacks your servers to get your data
Srdjan Vranac
Founder @ Code4Hire Kft
Where are your credentials and secrets stored? In .env files or in environment variables, or even worse in config files? Are your primary AWS keys shared amongst developers? Do you still have SSH keys from former employees on your servers?
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Load Testing Your App
Ian Littman
Developer
Want to find out which pieces of your site break down under load first, so you know how you'll need to scale before your systems catch fire? Load testing answers this question, and these days you can simulate full user behavior in a load test, rather than merely hammering a single endpoint.
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SmokeTests - The what, why and how
Sebastian Thoss
Chapterlead Backend @ better ventures group GmbH
Today it's crystal clear why we need unit tests. Even integration and acceptance tests are quite common. However, none of these tests is generally run in a production environment.
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Testing Strategy with the Help of a Static Analyzer
Ondřej Mirtes
Developer mentor @ Slevomat
What if I told you that you don't need a 100% code coverage?
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Serverless PHP applications with Bref
Matthieu Napoli
Serverless & PHP Consultant @ Null
Serverless and its "functions as a service" promise us cheap and scalable applications. What is it like in reality? And how to merge the mature PHP ecosystem with these new architectures and tools? Where do HTTP and CLI applications fit in all this? How about Laravel and Symfony? Let's explore those questions and illustrate the answers with case studies and "Bref", an open source solution for deploying PHP applications on AWS Lambda.
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Browser APIs: the unknown Super Heroes
Rowdy Rabouw
Web developer and engineer @ double-R webdevelopment
Still think browsers are only capable of parsing HTML, CSS and JavaScript? Think again! Browsers have become much more powerful and contain numerous APIs that can enrich the user experience or are just plain fun.
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Content Security Policies: Let's Break Stuff
Matt Brunt
Developer @ Helical Levity
Content Security Policies are another tool we should have in our security toolbelt to help protect users of our sites. In this session you'll learn what they are, why they're needed, how they work and the limitations on what they can & cannot do to protect users.
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Getting started with WebSockets
Marcel Pociot
Co-Founder and Lead Developer @ Beyond Code
More and more web applications add real-time functionality like chats or collaborative editing. This is being done by making use of WebSockets. In this session, I will show what else you can do with WebSockets, besides the typical "chat" example and how you can make use of WebSockets in your next PHP application.
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Writing Effective PHP
Nuno Maduro
Software Engineer @ Algolia
This talk is about writing PHP Code that is: safe, robust, maintainable, and optimized for the reader. We are going to cover a set of rules, that if you follow them; they will get you on the habit of writing code well.
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Xdebug 3.0
Derick Rethans
Developer
This talk is for developers who want to know how to debug their code in a better way, through single step debugging, profiling, and simpler debugging tools.
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6 Things I Learned as a Lead Developer
Gabor Nadai
Head of Engineering @ ingatlan.com
I've learned many things working as a Lead Developer, but I'd like to share 6 things, which were the most important for me.
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Getting started with Kubernetes
Bastian Hofmann
Senior System Engineer @ SysEleven
I will introduce you to Kubernetes, and show you, based on a practical example, how to continuously deploy a web application into it.
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Git Legit
Pauline Vos
Software Engineer & Scrum Master @ Werkspot
Using pre-recorded demos, you'll learn how to properly interactively rebase, fix up, reset, bisect, and more. By the end of the talk, you'll have seen how this Git flow will make your life easier and how it will affect your ability to cherry pick, drop unwanted commits, and most importantly: not spend hours resolving conflicts in rebase hell. A little change in habits can go a very long way!
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Making architecture explicit
Herberto Graca
Senior PHP Developer @ Werkspot
In this talk, you will learn about the architecture mental map I use to answer these questions. We will briefly revisit a few established software development and architecture ideas and see how you can put them in your service to help keep the mud out of your application.
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The Big "Why equal doesn't equal" Quiz
Juliette Reinders Folmer
Business Consultant @ Advies en zo
So you think you know PHP? But do you really?
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The First Contact
Andreas Heigl
Software Developer @ bitExpert AG
You don't need to be a coder to see why and how to improve your next registration form.
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Yii, PHP and frameworks
Alexander Makarov
Core Maintainer of Yii Framework
The talk goal is to try to understand the direction frameworks and PHP are heading to and how that's connected with the business needs, developer needs, web trends and more. Hope there will be less questions like "what should I learn" or "what framework should I use".
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Micro Frontends - A microservice approach to the modern web
Ivan Jovanovic
Independent Consultant
This is the story of Micro Frontends, a microservice approach to the modern web, the story that will change the way you look and develop your apps!
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Symfony 4: A new way to develop applications
Antonio Peric Mazar
CEO and Co-Founder @ Locastic
Symfony4 is here and it is better than ever. With Flex it can be a micro framework and an amazing beast with any feature you want. What changed from version 3, what are new best practices, what are new components and why Symfony is moving PHP world forward once again you can find in this talk.
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You're not a {framework} developer!
Thomas Dutrion
Founder @ Engineor
Thomas is aiming to demonstrate how software architecture and a good understanding of programming paradigms are more important that knowing the syntax of the tool you are using.
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