Autumn Meetup

Lets meet and talk about Symfony, PHP and web technologies and have a drink together!
This edition features the international speaker Andreas Heigl from Germany who will visit us in Zurich, as well as our user group member Alex Niedre.

We are welcome to the Liip Office at Limmatstrasse 183 on the 13th of November. Liip kindly sponsors drinks and snacks.

Doors open at 18:30
19:00 Talks

Andreas Heigl: The first contact
So you did a great job with your website and now your customers want to get into contact with you. They actually want give you their holy grail and apply for a login. And that's where it usually starts to go south. So many things can go wrong with a registration form that your customer doesn't really feel welcome or safe. In this session we will debug a few real-life examples from a user-experience Point of View. By analysing that we will find ways to make the first contact of a user with our application a better experience. And you don't need to be a coder to see why and how to improve your next registration form.

Alex Niedre: Fake Data is for Cowards: Clone Your 100Gb DB in Seconds
Imagine running your entire test suite on a live production dataset—no mocks, no sanitization, no fake data. Now imagine doing it without impacting production, and in less time than it takes to grab a coffee. Sound impossible? It’s not.In this talk, we’ll break down how you can clone 100Gb of production data in under 10 seconds and run your CI pipeline like you’re in the real world, without the waiting, the hacks, or the compromises. It’s time to leave the excuses behind. Let’s get real.

20:00 Drinks and chat with the Symfony community.

Would you like to present something? Please contact david@liip.ch with your talk idea. This is a great opportunity to get first experiences in public speaking. We would love to have some first-time speakers present something. Talks can be about an aspect of Symfony, a project you did that involved Symfony, or some general web topic that could be of interest to developers working with Symfony. If you feel you need some support in preparing your talk, please reach out, there are people with experience in public speaking that will be happy to help. Talks can be held in English or German.

Please let us know if you plan to come.