A comprehensive talk about MySQL 5.7 features and improvements, focusing on online DDL changes, strict modes, generated columns, and performance monitoring. The speaker explains how these features can improve data consistency and application performance while highlighting important migration considerations from MySQL 5.5/5.6 to 5.7.

Richard Mar, Head of Engineering at Figured, shares how Laravel helped transform their farm financial management software from a problematic Ruby on Rails application to a successful, scalable SaaS product. He discusses how they rewrote their entire application in Laravel within 6 weeks, achieving 100% feature parity, and how Laravel has enabled them to grow to serve over 35,000 customers across multiple countries while processing billions of financial transactions.