Tickets & Trade-offs, Semantic Search & MongoDB

This is a free in-person event, open to all.

📆Agenda

18:30 – Arrive, pre-talks networking & pizzas 🍕

19:05 – Intro to Leeds

PHP and Sponsors

19:15 – From Tickets to Trade-offs - Olorunfemi Meyanbe

This talk explores the evolution from simply asking, “What code should I write to solve this problem?” to asking, “What decision should I make, and why?”

19:45 – Break

20:15 – Semantic Search and Mongo

DB - Kevin Smith

Mongo

DB doesn't have to mean learning a whole new world. In this talk, we start from a PHP developer's perspective and map the document database back to the relational concepts you already know: collections are tables, documents are rows, and a nested PHP array is all a document really is. Through a live demo we'll cover the essentials from both plain PHP and Laravel—inserting and querying data, embedding versus referencing, indexes, the aggregation pipeline, and how the official Laravel Mongo

DB package makes it all feel like ordinary Eloquent. By the end of the first half