PHP meetup - May

We are happy to announce a PHP event for May. Weahead has generously agreed to host us and Stefna will be our food/drink sponsor

Doors are open from 17.30, we start with a first presentation at 18.00.

Schedule
17.30: Doors will open
18.00: Introduction talk
18.05: Christopher Hertel: Agentic Applications with Symfony
18.50: Small break (with light food/drinks)
19.10: Denis Brumann: Distributed Transactions with Saga
19.55: Mingle
20.10: We go to a bar close by

Agentic Applications with Symfony - By Christopher Hertel
A chat interface is by far not all what you could build with Symfony and Large Language Models. And agentic applications are the next level of integrating AI - not only in your code, but also in your business.

Let's have a look together on some basic concepts and hands-on examples of letting AI take over more responsibilities in a well-defined and automated manner.

Distributed Transactions with Saga - By Denis Brumann
In microservice or event-driven architectures you might find yourself having to solve issues which are simple when working with monolithic applications. One of these challenges is distributed transactions, i.e. performing an action across multiple services can be safely reversed when something fails along the call chain. The Saga pattern is an established approach to make this happen. Let's have a look at what it is, how we can implement it in a modern Symfony application and when we might want to avoid it.