February 24-26, 2016
Montreal, Canada
When All You Have Is An ElePHPant…
'When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Do you find yourself always reaching for your favorite language whenever you need to build a solution? In this talk, we’ll explore a real-world PHP project that selectively migrated to Go. We’ll discuss where PHP shines, why we chose Go where it doesn’t, and how an investment in finding the right tool for the job improved not only the project itself, but the team as a whole.
Gemma Anible
Giguebytes, LLC
Gemma is a software engineer, video gamer and recovering classical violinist who has been developing PHP web applications since before PHP5 (and applications in C, .NET and Delphi since before then). She is passionate about using pragmatic processes and tooling to support developers of all types and skillsets, and her level of excitement over learning new dev technology tends to correlate strongly with her level of caffeination. Gemma and her husband live with their two dogs in New Mexico, where
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