Talks

The Individual Contributor Path

• AmsterdamPHP UserGroup (Amsterdam, NL)

• June 20, 2024

• IC, staffplus, career

For most of my early career, I was told the only path up was through management roles. Our market has since evolved, and Staff+ engineering roles are more common and offer us a different path. But what is a Staff/Principal engineer? What do they do? How do they work? Are they just managers who can’t admit it?

The Individual Contributor Path

• Dutch PHP Conference 2024 (Amsterdam, NL)

• March 15, 2024

• career

For most of my early career, I was told the only path up was through management roles. Our market has since evolved, and Staff+ engineering roles are more common and offer us a different path. But what is a Staff/Principal engineer? What do they do? How do they work? Are they just managers who can’t admit it?

Application Metrics

• IPC Berlin 2023 (Berlin, DE)

• May 25, 2023

• metrics, prometheus

We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover various Site Reliability Engineering topics, such as SLIs and SLOs while we explore real life examples of defining and implementing metrics in a system with examples using Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to demonstrate implementation. Let’s get back to some real science.

How'd we get here? A guide to Architectural Decision Records

• Dutch PHP Conference 2021 (Online)

• June 18, 2021

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• adr, decisions, productivity, development, adr-tools

Every day developers will make an uncountable number of decisions while working or run into past decisions that we do not fully understand. How can we organize all this content and simplify the sharing of architectural knowledge? Let’s explore ADRs and how they can support decision making and sharing on various levels.

Painel: Virei Tech Líder, e Agora?

• PHP Conference Brasil 2020 (Online)

• June 18, 2021

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• carreira

Painel onde alguns dos nomes mais relevantes do mercado debatem mudanças de carreira.

Architectural Decision Records

• PHP Conference Brasil 2020 (Online)

• December 4, 2020

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• adr

Todo dia tomamos um número incontável de decisões enquanto trabalhamos, ou nos deparamos com decisões tomadas no passado que não entendemos. Como organizar este conteúdo e facilitar o compartilhamento de conhecimento arquitetural de um projeto? Vamos explorar ADRs e como elas podem ajudar em diversos níveis de tomada de decisão e compartilhamento.

Application Metrics

• PHP Serbia 2019 (Belgrade, RS)

• May 25, 2019

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• prometheus, php, sre, metrics

We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover various Site Reliability Engineering topics, such as SLIs and SLOs while we explore real life examples of defining and implementing metrics in a system with examples using Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to demonstrate implementation. Let’s get back to some real science.

Panel: Road to Seniority

• PHP Serbia 2019 (Belgrade, RS)

• May 25, 2019

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• career, panel

We are all aware that ‘senior’ has different value and meaning from company to company, lets try to lay some foundation: ideas, concepts, terms & expectations that are generally expected.

Writing code you won't hate tomorrow

• ConFoo 2019 (Montreal, CA)

• March 14, 2019

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• clean code

As developers we write code every day, but we frown at it a week later. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self-judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

Application metrics

• ConFoo 2019 (Montreal, CA)

• March 13, 2019

• application, metrics, prometheus

We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover various Site Reliability Engineering topics, such as SLIs and SLOs while we explore real life examples of defining and implementing metrics in a system with examples using Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to demonstrate implementation. Let’s get back to some real science.

Writing code you won’t hate tomorrow

• PHPCE18 (Prague, CZ)

• October 28, 2018

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• object, calisthenics, phpce18, php, code, quality

As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

Application Metrics

• PHP Developer Days 2018 (Dresden, DE)

• September 22, 2018

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• application, metrics, prometheus

We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover various Site Reliability Engineering topics, such as SLIs and SLOs while we explore real life examples of defining and implementing metrics in a system with examples using Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to demonstrate implementation. Let’s get back to some real science.

Application Metrics

• ScotlandPHP 2018 (Edinburgh, GB)

• September 22, 2018

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• application, metrics, prometheus

We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover various Site Reliability Engineering topics, such as SLIs and SLOs while we explore real life examples of defining and implementing metrics in a system with examples using Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to demonstrate implementation. Let’s get back to some real science.

Application metrics with Prometheus

• Dutch PHP Conference 2018 (Amsterdam, NL)

• June 8, 2018

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• prometheus, sli, slo, sla, metrics, php, sre

We all know not to poke at alien life forms in another planet, right? But what about metrics, do you know how to pick, measure and draw conclusions from them? In this talk we will cover Service Level Indicators (SLI), Objectives (SLO), and how to use Prometheus, an open-source system monitoring and alert platform, to measure and make sense of them. Let’s get back to some real science.

“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow

• PHPKonf 2017 (Istanbul, TR)

• May 20, 2017

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• php, object, calisthenics

As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow

• phpDay 2017 (Verona, IT)

• May 12, 2017

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• php, object, calisthenics

As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

“Writing code that lasts” … or writing code you won’t hate tomorrow.

• PHP Yorkshire 2017 (York, UK)

• April 8, 2017

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• nan

As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

Composer The Right Way

• 010PHP (Rotterdam, NL)

• November 13, 2016

• composer, php, tips, and, tricks, 1.2.0, 010php

Composer has triggered a renaissance in the PHP community, it has changed the way we deal with other people’s code and it has changed the way we share our code. We are all slowly moving to using Composer, from Wordpress to Joomla and Drupal and frameworks in between. But many of us mistreat composer, follow outdated practices or simply lack a few tricks. In this session i’ll get you the low down on how to use composer the right way.

Writing code that lasts

• Magento 2 Seminar (Utrecht, NL)

• October 23, 2016

• magento, php, object, calisthenics, coding, code, quality, object, orientation

As developers we write code everyday, only to frown at it a week after that. Why do we have such a hard time with code written by others and ourselves, this raging desire to rewrite everything we see? Writing code that survives the test of time and self judgment is a matter of clarity and simplicity. Let’s talk about growing, learning and improving our code with calisthenics, readability and good design.

Composer the Right Way

• PHP Serbia 2016 (Belgrade, RS)

• May 29, 2016

• Watch video

• phpsrb16, composer, php

Composer has triggered a renaissance in the PHP community, it has changed the way we deal with other people’s code and it has changed the way we share our code. We are all slowly moving to using Composer, from Wordpress to Joomla and Drupal and frameworks in between. But many of us mistreat composer, follow outdated practices or simply lack a few tricks. In this session i’ll get you the low down on how to use composer the right way.