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I speak at conferences, meetups, and corporate events about technology. I talk about code, infrastructure, automation, and web performance.

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Blog

I blog about technology, conferences, and other aspects of my career. Recurring themes: Varnish, PHP, ElasticSearch, Redis, containers, and my vlog.

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Varnish book

I wrote Getting Started with Varnish Cache, a book about reverse caching proxy technology that speeds up your website. It's published by O'Reilly.

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About me

I'm a technical evangelist at  Varnish Software, the company behind the Varnish Cache open source technology. My mission is to bridge the gap between code and infrastructure. I convey my message through various media: I speak at conferences, I write blog posts, I record vlogs, I write books, and I love interacting with people.

As an international conference speaker, I've presented 290 talks in 21 countries.

I'm the author of "Getting Started with Varnish cache", an O'Reilly book about Varnish.

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Speaking
290Presentations
21Countries
19Years of experience

Upcoming presentations

26
Jun
2023
Guild 42 Meetup 2023 Caching with Varnish: from web acceleration to content delivery
Guild 42 Meetup

Schmiedenpl. 5, Bern, Switzerland

27
Jun
2023
Web Zurich Meetup 2023 Caching with Varnish: from web acceleration to content delivery
Web Zurich Meetup

Bogen D, Viaduktstrasse 93, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland

30
Aug
2023
Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 Caching the uncacheable: delivering personalized experiences without sacrificing performance
Copenhagen Developers Festival

Øksnehallen, Kødbyen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Featured presentation videos

Getting Started with Varnish Cache

I'm the author of "Getting Started with Varnish Cache", an O'Reilly book about the Varnish caching technology.

Varnish is a so-called reverse caching proxy that acts as an intermediary between the browser and the webserver. Varnish stores HTTP responses and serves them to the browser, without accessing the backend for every request. This causes a massive speed increase.

My book explains how you can get the most out of the software, by tuning either your Varnish configuration, or by optimizing your web application.

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Getting Started with Varnish Cache

Blog

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Airtame product review - VLOG 21
PHPBenelux Conference 2018 behind the scenes - VLOG 10