May Meetup at Showpad

For our third meetup this year we're visiting the awesome offices of Showpad. Thijs Feryn will instruct us about video streaming acceleration with Varnish. Freek Van der Herten returns to teach us about supercharging common controllers in Laravel.

Showpad is so kind to provide us with food and drinks so you can come hungry and thirsty!

We hope to see you soon,

Dries & Rias

SCHEDULE
19:00 Doors
20:00 Talks

TALKS
Video streaming acceleration with Varnish by Thijs Feryn

Most of us know Varnish as the web acceleration software that is used to make your site bullet-proof. But Varnish can do more than speed up your website.

In this presentation, Thijs will show you how video streaming over HTTP works and how Varnish can be used to scale your OTT video platform.

The goal is to offload as much as we can from our origin servers. Not only the video streaming itself, but also a lot of the advanced decision making such as:

Pre-fetching the next video segmentsGeo-blocking and geo-routingRate limitingResponse body manipulationDynamic backend selection
Thijs will package an MP4 file into HLS and MPEG-DASH and accelerate its delivery, but we’ll also measure the performance improvement for a video we’ll stream live.

Speaker:
Thijs Feryn is a "technical evangelist" at Varnish Software, the company behind the Varnish Cache open source technology. His goal is to bring technology to the people and people to technology. He focuses on bridging the gap between code and infrastructure. Thijs is a published author at O'Reilly, he is also involved in many open source communities. He speaks, listens, writes, codes, teaches, blogs, vlogs, organizes and is above all very excited to speak at Full Stack Ghent.

Length: 45min

Supercharging Common Controllers by Freek Van der Herten

A while ago I had to create a fairly complicated CRUD interface from scratch. While this isn’t rocket science, there surprisingly aren’t that many good resource out there on how to do this. That’s why our team dove in and published a couple of packages that can help create modern CRUD interface. In this highly practical talk you’ll learn how we nowadays go about creating a CRUD interface at Spatie. We’ll take a look at how we can convert url parameters to a Eloquent query. You’ll learn what view models are. We’ll create some server side components with BladeX and much more.

Speaker:
Freek Van der Herten is a developer and partner at Spatie. The Antwerp based company has an open source first mentality and has released many Laravel, PHP and JavaScript packages, which have been downloaded more than 25 million times. After hours Freek runs https://ohdear.app and co-organises the Full Stack Europe conference.

Length: 25min