PHP London August 2023

We are very excited to be hosting our August event of PHP London meetup in 2023.

NOTE: the meetup is on Thursday, the 3rd August

Venue: LendInvest, Two Fitzroy Place, 8 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JJ

Note: You must be registered to attend the event on Meetup in order to gain entry.

Agenda:
6:30-7:15 - Informal drinks and chat
7:15-7:20 - Welcome & group announcements
7:20-8:10 - Talk: Feature Flags – A Practical Place To Begin

Speaker: Peter Fox

PHP developer of over 10 years and currently working for Amiqus as a Senior Backend Engineer. I maintain the leading open-source Feature Flag package for Laravel and working on a Feature Flag management tool called Flagfox.

Talk: Feature Flags – A Practical Place To Begin

Feature Flags, Dark Launching, A/B Testing? What the hell is the difference? In this talk, I will answer those questions, and I’ll start to explain how you can start and evolve to do all of those things potentially.

First, I’ll break down the simplest form of feature flags using ENV variables. I’ll go into why this is a good start but will begin to fail you quickly on even small applications.

I’ll then explain why I started building Feature Flags for Laravel, learning to work with different persistence layers and working out the places to store and access flags efficiently.

Soon we’re not just featuring flagging anymore, but we want to be able to dark launch and test features in production. This then requires mapping flags to users and teams. This has been the driving force for building a product like Flagfox for Laravel as a UI/UX solution. I’ll finally finish things up with a few notes on A/B testing.

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