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26 Aug

How I became a technical evangelist – VLOG4

By ThijsFeryn
In Vlog

Contents1 How I became a technical evangelist: the video footage2 Dutch speaking Belgian kid3 I suck at maths4 Finland5 My next move6 A career at Combell7 Support experience as the foundation of tech evangelism8 Public speaking9 PHPBelgium, and PHPBenelux10 The

23 Aug

What’s up with my Varnish book? – Vlog 3

By ThijsFeryn
In Vlog

It’s been a couple of months since my book was published. What’s up with the Varnish book right now? In vlog 3, I’ll give you the heads up and show you a nice little gift that was sent to me

07 Jul

Dutch PHP Conference 2017

By ThijsFeryn
In Travel, Trip report, Vlog

The Dutch PHP Conference 2017 in Amsterdam is a PHP event I’ve been attending since 2008 (with 1 or 2 exceptions). It makes perfect sense to me to attend this conference for a variety of reasons: Quality content Lot’s

04 Jul

The Kubernetes workshop

By ThijsFeryn
In Tech, Vlog

Last week I attend a Kubernetes workshop that was organized by the Belgian Docker meetup group. The Kubernetes workshop was lead by Benjamin Henrion. The course material can be found on his website. Kubernetes In case you wonder what Kubernetes

03 Jul

An interview with Juozas Kaziukėnas

By ThijsFeryn
In Interviews

I already interviewed Juozas Kaziukėnas (people call him Joe) last year while I was in London. Unfortunately the video footage was corrupted, but luckily the audio was still intact. I went ahead and published it on Youtube and SoundCloud, but we

19 Jun

HashiDays London 2017 – trip report

By ThijsFeryn
In Trip report, Vlog

HashiDays London is an event I attended with a bunch of my colleagues. The conference is organized by HashiCorp, the company behind popular open source tools like: Vagrant Packer Terraform Consul Vault Nomad HashiCorp is such an interesting

26 Apr

dotScale edition 2017 in Paris

By ThijsFeryn
In Trip report, Vlog

dotScale is web performance, devops, and distributed systems conference in Paris. I’ve been attending the event for 4 consecutive years now and it continues to inspire me. It is a tech event, but it’s more about ideas and inspiration, than

10 Apr

The Lufthansa First Class Experience

By ThijsFeryn
In Travel, Trip report, Vlog

The Lufthansa First Class experience is something unique: probably the best First Class product offered by any European airline and among the top 5 worldwide. After saving Lufthansa Miles & More award miles for over 7 years, I finally decided to

22 Mar

Speaking at Confoo 2017 in Montreal – trip report

By ThijsFeryn
In Speaking, Trip report, Vlog

Speaking at Confoo 2017 Montreal - trip report

Confoo is a multi-technology conference for webdevelopers in Montreal. I was invited to speak at the event and did 2 presentations: one about Varnish, and one about ElasticSearch. It wasn’t my first time in Montreal and it wasn’t my first time at

21 Mar

My Varnish book is now on sale

By ThijsFeryn
In Tech

Getting Started with Varnish Cache is now on sale

My Varnish book is finally on sale. The book was available in pre-release since February, but now you can finally go to oreilly.com to get a copy of the book. The book is about Varnish, the popular open source HTTP