Name: DPiP - 6th November 2025: AI that works: moving beyond the hype to real adoption
Start: 2025-11-06T19:00:00.000Z
Location: Bewiched Coffee Fletton Quays

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

★ The talks

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

**19:05 – Intro to LeedsPHP and Sponsors**

**19:15** **– Migrating a Feature from a Monolith to a New Service** **– Connell Sharp**
This is a story about how our team at Stack Overflow split out a small feature from a monolithic application into its own microservice. We moved the data to a new database, rebuilt the UI as a microfrontend using a new framework, and managed to deploy it without any downtime.
In this talk, we’ll dive into the challenges with Eventual Consistency, multi-tenancy, cross-origin resource sharing (CORS), and many more. You'll hear the choices we made, along with other options we considered, and what we learned from this experiment.

**20:15– Tidy up and walk to the pub** **(The Adelphi) for drinks**

**LeedsPHP Socials:**

* [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/80411632)
* [Website](https://leedsphp.org)
* Email: info@leedsphp.org

Thank you to [Estrato Cloud](https://www.linkedin.com/company/estratocloud/) for sponsoring this event and to [AutoProtect](https://www.linkedin.com/company/autoprotect/) for hosting us in their office on the Leeds Dock 😁

Leeds PHP Meetup

Irene

Alan Lapington

Chris Buckley

Jamie

Ibukun Akinlemibola

Jordan Wilson

Prateek Gautam

Connell

Dale Shaw

Craig Duncan

Josh Gunning

Ehtesham Anwar

Homa

reza

Daniel Harper

Seppo Virtanen

October Event: Migrating a Feature from a Monolith to a New Service

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**👉 Ensure you RSVP in advance**
Advance RSVPs help us get an idea of numbers before ordering any food or drinks, so please RSVP now!

**Join us this Thursday 6th November at 7pm to hear from:**

**Julia Yong**
AI that works: moving beyond the hype to real adoption

Generative AI is everywhere – in headlines, in board meetings, and increasingly in the tools we use every day. It's been described as transformative, disruptive, even revolutionary. But for many businesses – from sole traders to SMEs to larger organisations – the question remains: how do we actually use it in a way that works?

This talk is for anyone trying to make AI adoption real. Not just talked about. Not stuck in the too-hard basket.

I'll be sharing what I've learned from working with businesses, councils, charities... early-stage AI users across sectors. My focus is always on what's practical, ethical and impactful. That includes helping teams build the confidence to experiment safely, and avoid getting bogged down waiting for the "perfect" AI product to come along.

**🟣 Continue the chat over on Discord**
Did you know we now have a [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/425326611332857878/425333434152386562) community where you can chat about the latest DPiP talks, or anything else!

Digital People in Peterborough (DPiP)

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Dan Thornton

Joff

Liz Randell

Arun Sathyan

Amy Brennan

Ashokkumar Kaliappan

Umar Ijaz

Jo Richards

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