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Presented at the ScotlandPHP conference 2017 held in Edinburgh.

It's 2017 and times have changed – yet PHP is still most often associated with your average product catalog or blogging platform. In this talk you will learn that PHP's huge ecosystem has way more to offer and PHP is not inferior at all to its evil cousin Node.js.

You will learn about the core concepts of async PHP and why you too should care about ReactPHP being a real thing. The talk has a strong focus on sparking the idea that PHP can be way faster and more versatile than you probably thought. Bring along an open mind and through lots of examples and demos learn why what sounds crazy at first might soon be a valuable addition in your toolbox.

We all know how good horizontal scaling is. We also know that PHP is born single threaded, and therefore it's not the best available tool for heavy processing or intensive batch jobs. In this talk we'll see how to get through these shortcomings, achieving parallel processing through native solutions such as Process control functions and POSIX functions, but also exploiting more recent techniques such as message queues and nonblocking I/O. We'll cover a wide range of examples from real world applications, and dealing with tools such as Gearman, Redis, RabbitMQ and ReactPHP. For more information visit https://joind.in/talk/view/15873

Deploying code changes continuously to your production environment has many benefits. New features get to your users much faster which enables very short and quick iterations on them. And due to the small change sets you tend to encounter less bugs and regressions. In this talk I’ll present what Continuous Deployment means, and what you have to do, step-by-step, to make it work successfully for your project. We will cover topics like trunk based development, feature flags, partial roll outs, continuous integration, deployment automation and application monitoring. For more information visit https://joind.in/talk/view/15875

Many people teach design patterns as a fundamental step to Object Oriented Programming. They are so universally seen as important that almost every single programming conference that I have been to has had at least one talk about them. They are quite often used as interview questions to test a candidate's OOP knowledge. However, just like inheritance, they are not needed for OOP. And just like inheritance, they are a distraction rather than a foundation. Instead of focusing on patterns, I suggest focusing on learning about abstraction and communication. Why? Come and find out! For more information visit https://joind.in/talk/view/15867

The presentation focuses on our journey of migrating a legacy PHP application to a modern implementation, following the industry’s best practices and with 95% code coverage, capable of serving our global pool of users fast and reliable. We will go through all the steps we followed from the beginning, choosing the best framework for the job (Silex), building the application in increments, testing it and releasing it one page at a time without causing service interruption. For more information visit https://joind.in/talk/view/15870

El grupo de programadores PHPBarcelona se complace en anunciar la quinta PHP Monthly Talk. Para la ocasión vamos a contar con los chicos de SocialPoint (http://twitter.com/socialpointeng), Ronny López (http://twitter.com/ronnylt), Marcos Quesada (http://twitter.com/marcos_quesada) y Gonzalo Serrano (http://twitter.com/gonzaloserrano), que nos van a explicar que hay más allá de PHP y veremos qué posibilidades tenemos para integrar PHP con otros lenguajes y plataformas (en concreto: LUA, Erlang y Go) además de ver cómo podemos conseguir interoperabilidad estableciendo PHP cómo base.

Frameworks give you a rich toolset to do complex tasks very easy and developers all love it. But then you need to update your framework from one version to another and things are falling apart because of the tight coupling with your business logic.

In this talk I show a couple of actual scenarios that went wrong when we moved from one framework to another and the solutions we applied to abstract business logic from framework logic. Even if you're not planning on migrating frameworks yet, decoupling is a good practice that will give you less headaches in the future.

An increasing number of websites is based on the high speed HTTP server Nginx, which has already relegated Apache to second place in marketshare among the top 100k websites. Lightweight Nginx is very powerful in serving static content, but also commonly used as a reverse proxy or load balancer. Other than in Apache there is no loadable PHP module for Nginx, but it allows requests to be passed to the PHP Fast Process Manager via a fastcgi interface. But what is it that makes Nginx that fast? Is it a good idea to run PHP applications on Nginx? And what would it need to take full advantage of it? In this session we will talk about leveraging Nginx for high performance websites and proper settings for serving PHP requests efficiently.

What is Docker? How does it compare Chef/Vagrant/Ansible? Should I be using it? Is it still cool? All these questions and many more besides will be answered in this no-holds-barred look into the technology that is still taking the world by storm.

During the talk we'll discover what Docker is and how it can be integrated into your workflow. Using a simple app, we'll walk through the process of dockerify a project and it's dependencies. We'll also look at some common pitfalls such as managing your data in a container and running multiple projects on a single host.

If you are looking to manage all your projects in a simple and consistent way, or just want to know what all the hype is about, come along and discover the hidden secrets of Docker.

You've written an application and now the worst thing that can happen to you has come about - People are using it! You now have load spikes to deal with. You can scale up to deal with the excess traffic, but what do you do when your load is variable? How do you do that, and stay on budget?

Google App Engine is a service that allows for scaling not just up, but down. It's built to handle wildly alternating load, to allow you to not have to deal with infrastructure, And it has a fantastic PHP implementation for both the original version of App Engine and the new flexible runtime option. This session will help you determine if App Engine can be a tool that can help you.