Seattle PHP User Group

Maximize developer productivity with AI-driven coding assistants. Discover how AI can speed up development by generating code, suggesting improvements, and helping with debugging. This session will equip you with strategies to effectively integrate AI into your workflow, enhancing efficiency and innovation.

### Presented by Mark Niebergall

Mark Niebergall is a security-minded PHP Staff Software Engineer and Team Lead at a cybersecurity software company, with many years of hands-on experience with PHP projects. He is the Utah PHP User Group Co-Organizer, a regular conference speaker, and a PHP-FIG Secretary. Mark has a Masters degree in MIS, is CSSLP and SSCP cybersecurity certified, and volunteers for (ISC)2 security exam development. Mark enjoys endurance sports, being outdoors, and teaching his five sons about writing code.

Most PHP developers learn server administration the hard way: SSHing into a box, editing config files by hand, and hoping the next deploy doesn't break what the last one fixed. This talk introduces Ansible as the way out—not as a checklist of commands to copy, but as a set of concepts (declarative state, idempotency, inventory, roles) that lets attendees author their own infrastructure code. Starting from zero Ansible experience, we build up the mental model: control nodes and managed nodes, modules and tasks, then roles and playbooks. From there we work through a realistic example — provisioning a server for a PHP application, deploying the app, and performing a zero-downtime update using release directories and a `current` symlink.

### Presented by Joe Ferguson

DevOps Dev. Writer. Open Source, Linux, Python, PHP, Ansible, ❤️ DevOps. ⚽, 🏒, & 🏎 Fan

Git has been the de facto standard for version control for nearly two decades, but a new contender has arrived. Jujutsu (jj) is a modern version control system that reimagines the developer experience while remaining fully compatible with Git repositories. In this talk, we'll explore what makes Jujutsu different — its first-class conflict handling, automatic rebasing, and a mental model that makes complex history manipulation feel natural. Jujutsu offers unlocks that can seriously level-up your version control game.

### Presented by Nick Vahalik

Nick Vahalik has been writing PHP for over two decades and has a passion for lazy development and whatever helps make software development more enjoyable.