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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 314 talks in 23 countries.

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

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Speaking
314Presentations
23Countries
19Years of experience

Upcoming presentations

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Jan
2024
NDC London 2024 Distributed load testing with k6
NDC London

Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, United Kingdom

22
Feb
2024
Confoo 2024 Pushing Wasm from the browser to the edge with slEDGEhammer
Confoo

Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, Canada

23
Feb
2024
Confoo 2024 Accélérez vos API avec Varnish Cache
Confoo

Bonaventure Hotel, Montreal, Canada

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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