What are the biggest challenges for PHP developers? Where is the PHP ecosystem headed? How are teams navigating looming EOL dates for many PHP versions? And what can you do to prepare for the future?
In our recent PHP landscape survey, we asked PHP professionals to share what they are building, what tools they are using, and the challenges they face. The results show the PHP ecosystem is undergoing modernization, which is not without its obstacles.
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Our PHP Experts Discuss Key Findings From Our Survey
Join Zend Product Manager Matthew Weier O’Phinney and Zend Senior Solutions Engineer Massimiliano Cavicchioli as they discuss the key findings from our 2022 PHP Landscape Report and provide their insights into the modernization trends that will shape PHP in 2022 and beyond.
Discussions will include:
- PHP development priorities: how teams are developing and deploying their PHP applications.
- Biggest hurdles teams encounter during development and deployment.
- Most used PHP versions, upgrade plans, and barriers to upgrading.
- Modernization trends: automation, containerization, and orchestration.
- What to expect in 2022.
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Presenters
Matthew Weier O’Phinney
Matthew Weier O’Phinney is the Principal Product Manager at Perforce Zend and OpenLogic, where he focuses on creating the tools developers need to build and deploy their applications. He is a founding member of the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG), which creates and promotes standards for the PHP ecosystem, where he has served two elected terms on the PHP-FIG Core Committee and collaborated on many specifications.
Matthew began developing on Zend Framework (ZF) before its public release, and he led the project for Zend from 2009 through 2019. He acts as the Project Lead for the Laminas Project, which includes the subprojects Laminas API Tools (formerly Apigility) and Mezzio (formerly Expressive). He has contributed to many open source projects and communities, many of which can be found on github and his personal website.
Massimiliano Cavicchioli
Massimiliano Cavicchioli is a Senior Manager of Sales Engineering at Perforce Zend and OpenLogic. With over 20 years of experience in the tech world — 16 of which have been spent contributing to the PHP ecosystem at Zend — he has helped enterprise corporations analyze customer consumption trends, identify optimization opportunities, and much more.
Serving as a key product advocate across the customer, partner, and industry ecosystems, Massimiliano has presented at several conferences, including the International PHP Conference. He is dedicated to using his wealth of tangible knowledge to help companies achieve best practices, adopt modern architectures, and improve processes in both PHP and OSS.