The PHPBenelux Conference edition 2016 took place last week in Antwerpen (Belgium). As an organizer, I’m really happy with the end result. I like to think that our attendees, speakers and sponsors also enjoyed it. It’s the 7th time we organize
Michael Heap is a developer who works at Datasift. On Thursday January 28th 2016 Michael flew from London Heathrow to Brussels to attend the PHPBenelux Conference 2016. Unfortunately he forgot his laptop on the plane.
While driving Michael to the airport, I
Varnish has become an industry standard when it comes to caching. Varnish is a reverse caching proxy that you put in front of your webserver and that speeds up your website by caching your pages. The PROXY protocol was introduced
On the 2nd, 3rd & 4th October 2015 I was in Manchester for the PHP North West Conference 2015 where I did an ElasticSearch presentation. I have been attending this conference since 2010 and this was my 4th edition as a speaker. I
Hurray! PHP 7 is finally out there and to celebrate the release, I created a video that highlights a couple of interesting PHP 7 features.
New PHP 7 features: a quick overview
Have a look at the video, it highlights
Earlier this week I attended the Varnish Summit in Amsterdam. This event is organized by Varnish Software, the commercial entity behind the Varnish Cache project.
I’m a big fan of Varnish and I’ve done a fair number of presentations on
On December 17th 2015 I’ll be presenting my “PHP Projects Beyond the LAMP Stack” talk at Nomad PHP.
Nomad PHP?
What is Nomad PHP you might ask? Well … it’s an online PHP user group for people who have no local
Varnish is one of my favorite pieces of technology. It’s a reverse caching proxy that makes slow websites go fast. It comes with some useful binaries to measure and monitor a running instance.
Varnishstat is one of those binaries: it lists
I like ElasticSearch, it’s a great piece of open source technology. Although it was built as a Lucene based search engine, it can do more than just that. It’s an awesome analytics engine, but it’s also a pretty good NoSQL database.