I Can't Believe You Still Do It That Way: A Best Practices Retrospective
About Laura Thomson
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Laura Thomson is Senior Engineering Manager, Web Engineering at Mozilla Corporation. Previously she worked extensively as a consultant and computer science academic. She is the author of two books: PHP and MySQL Web Development and MySQL Tutorial. She has spoken at many conferences worldwide.
I Can't Believe You Still Do It That Way: A Best Practices Retrospective
For the last twelve years I've been giving conference talks and writing books about how to develop for the web in PHP. Over that time I've made a bunch of recommendations: some still hold true, and some things have changed quite a bit since 2000.
In this session we'll run through an overview of today's best practices compared to those from the past. We'll cover:
Using frameworks: We used to avoid them like the plague. Is that still the case?
Scaling principles: In the good old days it was all master-slave replication and memcache. Will that still work? What else can we do?
Security: Is it still good enough to use magic quotes? (Hint: No.) What should you be doing instead?
Application architectures: Can you still just store everything in MySQL? When is a NoSQL data store a best practice? What about queues?
Language changes: In 2000 namespaces weren't even on the radar. Do we really need all this new stuff that's in PHP now? What is it good for?
I heard PHP is dead and we should all just switch to Python or Ruby. Is that true?
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