Thijs Feryn
Thijs is an evangelist at Combell, the top Belgian hoster. As an evangelist he supports communities and has a particular love for the PHP community.

Thijs is also boardmember of the PHPBenelux user group and organized the PHPBenelux Conference earlier this year.

Belgium Belgium

Sessions 2012

Develop & deploy using hybrid cloud strategies View session page

Session en anglais - Intermédiaire
Most developers choose a single cloud solution when choosing a production platform. Nowadays The Hybrid Cloud is the best way to go: combining a stable hosting solution with distributed and burstable unmanaged Cloud platforms.

This talk will combine standard server hosting with cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS for computing, storage & CDN. Besides the technical aspect, there will be a strong focus on best practices from an infrastructure point of view.

PHP through the eyes of a hoster View session page

Session en anglais - Introduction
Most PHP talks are given from the point of view of developers, managers and other obvious stakeholders. The story of the hoster is often untold, but the importance of the hoster is in a lot of cases underestimated. Hosters have a huge responsibility and deal as much with PHP related issues as as the developers of the project. Keywords: security, performance, setup, configuration, scalability, ...

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