title	conference	date
10 things that helped me advance my career	phpday 2025	2025-05-15
Ten concrete career moves: automate live demos with Ansible and Terraform then deliberately peel back automation to show failure modes; write a 778-page book… Talk on
Caching the uncacheable in Varnish	SREday London 2024	2024-09-19
Explains how Varnish turns otherwise uncacheable responses into cached assets by using VCL to strip tracking cookies, create hash variants and override TTLs… Talk on
Caching the uncacheable in Varnish	NDC Oslo 2024	2024-06-10
Shows how Varnish extends default behavior to cache personalized pages: extract and hash language or session cookie values, parse ESI fragments at the edge… Talk on
10 things that helped me advance my career	PHP UK Conference 2024	2024-02-15
Seven time PHP UK attendee turns ten vague tips into concrete moves: built a personal site and YouTube videos that once hit several hundred thousand views… Talk on
Distributed load testing with k6	NDC London 2024	2024-01-29
k6 is used to run distributed load from geographically separate nodes (Ireland, US, Singapore) with a central control API on port 6565 that can… Talk on
Distributed load testing with k6	DevOps Barcelona Conference 2023	2023-11-09
k6 is an open‑source JS-based load tester that runs locally, on k6 cloud, or as custom binaries; distributed runs send real‑time metrics to Prometheus scraped… Talk on
HTTP Headers that Make Your Website Go Faster	SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa	2023-10-10
Shows how to use HTTP headers with Varnish Cache to cut origin load: claims 1.3 Tbps on one machine and 1.17 Gbps per watt as performance/efficiency proof… Talk on
Caching the uncacheable: delivering personalized experiences without sacrificing performance	Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023	2023-08-28
Shows how Varnish turns personalization into cacheable work by using Varnish VCL to trim or keep specific cookies, create language-based cache variants, and… Talk on
Taking Laravel to the edge with HTTP caching & Varnish	Laracon EU 2022	2022-04-26
Varnish proves it can sit in front of Laravel and cut work by serving cached responses at 500 Gbps and handling 100k requests/sec on a single box; it honors… Talk on
Controlling the Variables	PHP UK Conference 2019	2019-02-20
Argument: luck becomes manageable by identifying and controlling variables — mindset, empathy, effort, timing — and treating opportunities as processes not… Talk on
Controlling The Variables	Dutch PHP Conference 2018	2018-06-07
Claims that luck is controllable by finding and controlling the variables and gives concrete tactics: hustling to buy a sold-out Rolling Stones ticket (which… Talk on
Build, provision & deploy in the Cloud with Packer, Ansible & Terraform	PHP UK Conference 2018	2018-02-14
Bakes a Debian Stretch VM image with nginx and PHP via Packer builds AMIs (JSON config, snapshots registered like ef90ad1), provisions the image with Ansible… Talk on
ElasticSearch in action	Codemotion Rome 2016	2016-03-18
A runnable demo indexes a company blog via an Atom‑feed script, shows explicit mappings (including English/Dutch/raw fields) to fix mistaken types, and walks… Talk on
Reverse caching proxies: Varnish or Nginx?	PHP UK Conference 2015	2015-02-18
Compares Varnish v4 and Nginx by showing real configs and tools: apt installs, ports, vcl back-end response overrides, nginx proxy_cache and fastcgi_cache… Talk on
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