October 22, 2019 — This talk will look at the benefits and challenges of using headless WordPress with ReactJS + GatsbyJS. We will dive into 3 areas of the site development, frontend development, backend development and the end user.

https://2019.brisbane.wordcamp.org/session/wordpress-gatsbyjs-and-splendour-in-the-grass/

November 26, 2018 — Phillip works in the music and festival space, and they see the majority of the traffic within the first hour after the lineup announce. 18 months ago we launched a new WordPress site at 8am for the lineup announce only to have it drowned in traffic and crash instantly… for 6 hours.

He’ll talk about the codebase they’ve worked on for all their websites, so that they can be launched instantly without any fear of the site failing. He’ll cover how they have utilised OOP PHP with MVC in their WordPress environment to cope with high server load while maintaining low hosting costs.

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