Episode #2. Aggregation Framework

Agenda:

• 1800: Networking, Pizza & Beer

• 1830: MongoSyphon by John Page

• 1915: Adventures in Aggregating Beer by Derick Rethans

• 2015: One for the Road

Adventures in Aggregating Beer by Derick Rethans

An overview of the aggregation framework with some specific examples organised one of our favourite beverages.

About Derick

Derick Rethans is a PHP internals expert, author of Xdebug (https://xdebug.org/)and an OpenStreetMap (https://openstreetmap.org/) and mapping enthusiast.

He has contributed in a number of ways to the PHP project, including the Xdebug (https://xdebug.org/) debugging tool, and various extensions and additions. He's a frequent lecturer at conferences (https://derickrethans.nl/talks.html), the author of php|architect's Guide to Date and Time Programming (https://phpdatebook.com/), and the co-author of PHP 5 Power Programming (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/013147149X/derickrethans-21). He is now working at MongoDB (http://mongodb.com/) to work on the PHP (https://pecl.php.net/mongodb) and HHVM (https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-hhvm-driver)drivers for MongoDB (https://mongodb.org/).

In his spare time, he likes to travel, hike, ski and practise photography (https://flickr.com/photos/derickrethans/). You can reach him at derick@derickrethans.nl