I Saw the Future, and Its Web Servers Were Written in PHP
Exploring PHP's evolution towards native web servers, enhancing performance and enabling new features like streaming and WebSockets without relying on external servers like Apache or Nginx.
Preparing Your Dockerised Application for Production
Learn strategies for deploying dockerised applications to production, including creating consistent artifacts, managing environment variables, and handling environment-specific processes for scalable and reliable setups.
Drupal8 for Symfony Developers
Explore Drupal8's modernization and Symfony integration. Learn routing, controllers, hooks, events, and custom module development for Symfony developers new to Drupal8.
Taking Care of Backups with Laravel
Learn to implement robust backup systems for Laravel applications, covering server management, enterprise solutions, and Laravel 5's filesystem abstraction.
Comic Book Continuity and Git Rebase
Explore Git concepts through comic book analogies, focusing on rebase techniques. Practical demonstration and discussion for Git users of all levels.
Building Scalable PHP Apps With Google App Engine
Learn to build and deploy scalable PHP applications on Google App Engine, exploring its unique features, services, and integration with other Google Cloud platforms.
Resolving MySQL Problems Quickly
Learn efficient MySQL troubleshooting techniques using a systematic approach and open-source tools like Percona Toolkit. Discover how to quickly resolve database issues without trial-and-error methods.
You Are a Designer
Experience design's crucial importance and why it's everyone's responsibility, explored through engaging insights and practical examples.
The Diabolical Developer
Uncover the truth behind industry practices and rediscover your passion for development with Martijn Verburg's humorous and insightful keynote on breaking free from conventional wisdom.
Monitoring at Scale - Intuitive Dashboard Design
Explore intuitive dashboard design for large-scale monitoring, focusing on cognitive science principles to create effective visualizations that aid quick decision-making and system health evaluation.
Planning to Fail
Explore strategies for building highly available PHP systems through failure planning, technology choices, design patterns, and simulations.
You Can't Optimize What You Can't Measure
Explore tools and techniques for monitoring PHP applications in production, detecting code and business-logic issues, and analyzing metrics to ensure optimal performance and functionality.
Usability for Developers
Learn essential user experience principles and practical techniques to enhance usability in web development, including effective testing methods for site and application improvement.
OpenStreetMap for the Web
Explore OpenStreetMap's rich dataset, APIs for map tiles, search, routing, and location. Learn about storage, searching, and map-making theory for web applications.
Realtime Web Apps in the Wild
Explore the evolution and current state of real-time web technologies, including WebSockets and popular solutions, with practical demonstrations and use cases beyond chat applications.
Scaling with HipHop
Explore HipHop, Facebook's open-source PHP compiler, offering significant speed improvements and core feature support. Learn its benefits and implementation strategies for enhanced performance.
PHP Extensions
Intense introduction to writing custom PHP extensions, bridging PHP with C/C++ libraries. Covers core concepts and may include HipHop extensions if time allows.
Cranking Nginx Up to 11
Explore advanced Nginx features beyond basic web serving: Memcached/Redis integration, proxy functionality, GeoIP, Lua scripting, MogileFS, headers manipulation, and database querying for enhanced performance and functionality.
Coding, Deploying, and Scaling with AWS
Hands-on walkthrough of building a PHP application stack in AWS, from deploying a Silex app to Elastic Beanstalk to integrating various AWS services. Includes practical configuration tips and real-world examples.
Small Data - Machine Learning
Discover how machine learning can solve real-world problems, like filtering Twitter mentions. Learn practical ML techniques and get inspired to apply them in your own projects.
Looking Ahead - PHP 5.5
Explore upcoming PHP 5.5 features including Generators, new password API, and deprecated elements. Learn to write idiomatic code for the latest version.