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AberdeenPHP Monthly Meeting - Introduction to Zend Expressive for API building

Aberdeen PHP User Group aims to provide a regular meeting for developers in Aberdeen and the surrounding areas to get together and discuss just about anything in and around the PHP Community.

This month we are joined by Stuart Herbert!

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Whether it's micro-service architectures, single-page web apps in React or Angular, or simply providing data-and-functionality-as-a-service, API development is firmly a thing today. There's plenty of advice out there about designing APIs - but how do you turn it into working, shippable code?

In this talk, Stuart will introduce you to his framework of choice for API development - Zend Expressive. He'll explain why he's gone with it, how to get started, and how to organise your code to get the best out of it. He'll also cover the essential elements that are missing (authentication, logging, metrics, validation, error handling, rate limiting), and finish by looking at how to go about testing your finished API.

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Stuart Herbert is an industry and open-source veteran, and one of the most experienced enterprise PHP developers in the UK, with nearly 25 years of commercial experience on projects for companies including Vodafone, Hewlett Packard, Orange (now EE), DataSift, Her Majesty's Government and many more. He is a co-author of the official Zend Certification Study Guide for PHP 4, and a regular tech speaker at user groups and conferences. He specialises in designing and delivering software that works, as founder and Chief Software Archaeologist of Ganbaro Digital Ltd.

You can learn more about Stuart at www.stuartherbert.com, and follow him on Twitter as @stuherbert.

Wed 5th Sep 2018 6:30pm (Europe/London)

Wed 5th Sep 2018 8:30pm (Europe/London)

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AberdeenPHP Monthly Meeting - Learn how to build tiny custom Docker images for your PHP projects that are more secure and performant

Aberdeen PHP User Group aims to provide a regular meeting for developers in Aberdeen and the surrounding areas to get together and discuss just about anything in and around the PHP Community.

This month we are joined by Nev Stokes!

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Covering things like:
- Building PHP from up-to-date source files
- Multistage Docker techniques
- Compiler flags, the ELF format and binary packing
- Speeding things up with Profile Guided Optimisation
- Creating stripped-back base images with Buildroot
And possibly:

- Orchestrating a development environment with a Makefile and Docker Compose
- Converting development environment to yield production images

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Nev Stokes has been working on the web (mainly with PHP) since 2001 with design agencies, local government and, now, the Peoples Postcode Lottery.

You can learn more about Nev and follow him on Twitter as @nevstokes.

AberdeenPHP Monthly Meeting - Making PHP: smaller, faster, harder, stronger