Florian Engelhardt

Montreal 2027 sessions

Asynchronous PHP

English session - Beginner

In today's fast-paced digital world, no one likes to wait. Yet, PHP scripts often find themselves waiting on databases, email servers, HTTP servers, file systems, and even RAM. The result? Your customers are left waiting too.
In this talk, we'll dive into the power of RabbitMQ and ReactPHP to significantly reduce waiting times and optimise performance. Get ready for live coding, real-world examples, and expert insights!

Clean Context, Clear Mind

English session - Beginner

LLM agents often feel random, forgetful, or fragile, but in most cases the problem is the context, not the model. Prompts, tool output, memories, and failed hypotheses all compete for attention. This talk shows how clean context makes agents more reliable, cheaper, and easier to trust, with practical patterns like forking, filtered CLI output, and careful MCP usage to keep agents focused and out of the token landfill.

The Four Pillars of Observability

English session - Beginner

Achieving optimal performance and reliability requires more than monitoring, it demands observability. Discover how metrics, logging, tracing, and continuous profiling empower you to understand, debug, and optimize your application. We'll explore each pillar and demonstrate how to instrument your PHP application for actionable insights. Examples will leave you equipped to make your PHP applications observable, resilient, and performant.

Montreal 2026 sessions

• Observing PHP for Fun and Profit
• Parallel Futures: Unlocking Multithreading in PHP

Montreal 2025 sessions

• Concurrency in PHP - What are my options?
• Processing One Billion Rows in PHP
• To double quote or not, that's the question!

Montreal 2023 sessions

• Asynchronous PHP
• Growing the PHP Core - One Test at a Time