Symfony Catalunya 2016

-- Programming with Cmdr. Chris Hadfield --

At age 9 a Canadian boy called Chris Hadfield witnessed the landing of Apollo 11’s lunar module on the moon.
That night he decided he wanted to be an astronaut. Every time he had to make some decision in life, he picked the option that brought him closer to fulfilling that dream.
He actually became an astronaut and is now quite famous for his work as commander of the International Space Station (ISS). Being an astronaut is a lot of work.
It’s life-endangering, physically demanding and mentally exhausting. You need to make the right decisions under high pressure and live with people in cramped rooms.
Compared to this, the life of a programmer seems easy peasy lemon squeezy.
Yet there’s a great number of things that we, developers, can learn from Chris’s perseverance, his optimism, his way of life and the rules and procedures he applies to prevent major incidents.

-- Deploying Symfony --

Web applications are increasingly more complex, so deployment is not just transferring files with FTP anymore.
We will go over the different challenges and how to deploy our Symfony applications effectively, safely and consistently with the latest tools and techniques.
We will also look at tools that complement deployment with management, configuration and monitoring.

-- PHP FIG: Breaking the boundaries --

Beginning with PSR-0, the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP FIG) has been producing standards for PHP for almost 7 years now and now can boast a complement of a full bakers dozen specifications in progress or complete.
Its goal is to make your life, as a developer, easier, whether that be through providing a common coding style guide to reduce cognitive friction or interfaces for interoperability.
This has not always been easy, but slowly and gradually the FIG is stamping down boundaries in the name of interoperability, cohesion and collaboration.
Join me for a tale of how the FIG has grown, and continues to grow, whilst trying to bring the PHP community together.

-- ReactPHP & Symfony --

PHP is slow! I guess you've heard that sentence quite a lot of times. And yeah, let's give them some credit: PHP WAS slow. Starting from PHP 5.4, it has gotten faster with each subsequent release up to doubling the performance in the historic 7.0 version.
But now what? Have we already hit the limit? What if we could get a huge boost just by rethinking the whole request-response process? What if we could reuse work done in the previous request to speed everything up?
Join me in this talk for an in-depth review of how we can get a full-stack Symfony website like Ulabox to serve lightning fast requests with ReactPHP and PHP-PM.

-- Doctrine ORM and NoSQL --

By using Doctrine ORM you are committing deeply to the relational database world, with tables, joins, relational algebra and a lot of normalization.
This talks discusses strategies to mix the relational world in Doctrine with concepts from the NoSQL world without having to use MongoDB, CouchDB or other new technologies.
You will learn about denormalization, embedded documents with arrays and JSON Hashmaps using recent MySQL 5.7 or PostgreSQL features and how to integrate them with Doctrine ORM.