In October I went to the SymfonyLive in Berlin, I was pleasantly surprised how high the niveau of the speeches was. It was my first time there, in the years before I was only attending some general fairs like the Internet World or the TYPO3-Bootcamp, where I found some lightweighted CSS-talks 
But here at SimfonyLive my tech-heart jumped higher, because all the topics seemed quite interesting to me when I read the program. After all there were some better speakers and some worse (as always), but these were my favourite ones:
Thorsten Rinne https://twitter.com/ThorstenRinne
He talked about a whole refactoring and redesign of the code and infrastructure of Yatego and how they used Elastic Search for that, very interesting talk
Benjamin Eberlei
http://qafoo.com/resources/presentations/symfony_live_berlin_2014_2014/feature_flags_with_symfony.html
How does Facebook roll out or test certain features to a small group of people? Tadaaaah, it’s Feature Flags!
Nils Adermann, creator of composer (thanks for that, you’re a genius)
http://naderman.de/slippy/src/?file=2014-10-31-Efficient-Use-of-Microservices.html
Nils presented a nice way to asynchronically work on datastreams. Wow, I didn’t know you could go so far with PHP. For example a curl-call to a 1-mio-item-json which never has to be persisted in whole
Dustin Whittle: Scaling PHP
https://speakerdeck.com/dustinwhittle/scaling-php
MemCached, Workers, Doctrine-Cache, http-cache: a solid roundtrip to all the performance-approaches in the PHP-world.
About Christian Baer
Hi, I'm a Berlin-based developer and working on webstuff since 2000. My focus lies on PHP, TYPO3 and Symfony. 2009 I became a certified TYPO3-Integrator. I worked on projects for clients like Paypal, Union Investment, Commerzbank or Warsteiner.
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