Mike Lehan
StuRents
Mike has been working in web application development using PHP for 13 years, including time as a CTO and startup founder. Through working on business critical systems with real time elements Mike has learned the value of comprehensive logging & monitoring, redundant checks on applications & infrastructure, and of course well written testable code. He has a strong desire to train & mentor the next generation of web engineers.
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Beyond Relational: Data storage for modern applications
Porter Tun - 14.45
A relational database has long been the go-to choice for PHP application developers, but as applications grow the data doesn’t always fit the relational model. Perfect normalised data structures have their place, but in the world of rapid delivery, cloud computing & microservices developers need more in their toolbox.
This talk looks at when you might want to try a different data store, and how you’d look to build out or migrate to a new service. We’ll look at queues, key-value, document stores primarily (with some specific examples in Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB and Redis). We’ll also look at some emerging database types such as graphs and ledgers.
