How we abused PHP and Laravel to do Big Data - Marten Westphal

Using PHP and Laravel to build a Data Consolidation Framework sounds like the most amazing idea ever, we know. Considering obvious alternative Technologies like Airflow, Spark and so on, why did we decide two years ago to make this move from our previously used Hadoop System and venture into these unknown territories. Let’s take together this journey we were on for the last two years. Revisit the dead ends and traps we ran into, how we changed directions more then once taking a completely different path the