PHP is at the same time one of the easiest web programming languages to learn and also one of the most powerful and trusted technologies for running some of the world's largest sites. This talk discusses many of the tools and techniques that make PHP suitable for large scale enterprise sites, and many of the lessons we learned over a decade of building them.

Speaker: 

Andrew Betts

Andrew is a London based PHP and JavaScript developer, founder of web technology firm Assanka, and PHP London regular. He's been using PHP for 12 years, building apps for publishers and finance companies, and is particularly interested in search, scaling, mobile web apps and PHP as part of a wider web development ecosystem.