+32 472 40 86 79
thijs@feryn.eu
Thijs Feryn
  • Home
  • About me
  • Speaking
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Vlog
  • Home
  • About me
  • Speaking
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Vlog
10 Feb

JSON pretty printing with a single Python command

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Tech
JSON pretty printing
JSON is a great way to represent and transport data. It is commonly used in webservices, both for payload and output. It originates from the world of Javascript where it’s a standard notation for objects and other data structures. Hence
Read More
  • Share:
05 Feb

Making the PHPBenelux Conference happen

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Tech
Making PHPBenelux Conference happen
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
Read More
  • Share:
01 Feb

Michael Heap – Talking about PHPBenelux, Datasift, miles and points

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Interviews, Tech, Travel
Driving Michael Heap to the airport because he forgot his laptop on the plane while traveling to PHPBenelux
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
Read More
  • Share:
20 Jan

Varnish 4.1 & HAProxy: get the real IP by leveraging PROXY protocol support

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Tech
PROXY protocol support in Varnish 4.1
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
Read More
  • Share:
21 Dec

ElasticSearch In Action: video footage of my ElasticSearch presentation at PHP North West 2015 in Manchester

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Speaking, Tech
Video footage of my ElasticSearch In Action by Thijs Feryn at PHP North West Conference 2015
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
Read More
  • Share:
03 Dec

PHP 7 features and improvements

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Tech
PHP 7 features
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
Read More
  • Share:
09 Nov

Varnish: where developers & sysadmins meet

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Speaking, Tech
Varnish: where developers & sysadmins meet
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
Read More
  • Share:
26 Oct

Presenting "PHP Projects Beyond the LAMP Stack" at Nomad PHP

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Speaking, Tech
Nomad PHP
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
Read More
  • Share:
03 Sep

Running varnishstat remotely using an API written in Go

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Tech
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
Read More
  • Share:
23 Aug

The ElasticSearch cat APIs

  • By ThijsFeryn
  • In Tech
The ElasticSearch cat APIs allow you to retrieve information from your ElasticSearch cluster in a human readable format
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.
Read More
  • Share:
  • <
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3

Buy my book

Getting Started with Varnish Cache

Upcoming presentations

Achieve Your Growth Potential with Next-Gen Content Delivery
2023-02-14 at Light Reading Webinar
Distributed load testing with k6
2023-02-23 at Confoo
HTTP headers that will make your website go faster
2023-02-24 at Confoo
More presentations

Categories

  • Combell
  • Football
  • Interviews
  • Review
  • Speaking
  • Tech
  • Travel
  • Trip report
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Vlog

Recent Posts

Logitech MX Vertical mouse
Logitech MX Vertical mouse product review
14Jan,2019
Airtame product review - VLOG 21
Airtame product review
09Oct,2018
PHPBenelux Conference 2018 behind the scenes - VLOG 10
PHPBenelux Conference 2018 behind the scenes – VLOG 10
31Jan,2018

Get in touch

+32 472408679

thijs@feryn.eu

Follow me on social media

  • Twitter
  • Linkedin
  • Instagram
  • Youtube

Navigation

  • Home
  • About me
  • Speaking
  • Speaker bio
  • Books
  • Blog
  • Video
  • Vlog