November meetup
Hosted by
Devs.gent
Wednesday, November 29th 2023
1:00PM to 4:00PM EST
Online
Link available to attendees
We missed you this time around!
🍽️ Come hungry: we'll have food and drinks!
đź‘Ť We have a limited amount of spots, so only RSVP (via Meetup) when you are sure you'll be able to make it.
Schedule
19:00 Doors (food and drinks available)
20:00 Talk 1: Bram Van der Sype - Writing a Discord bot from scratch... in PHP
20:45 Talk 2: Thijs Feryn - HTTP headers that will make your website go faster
21:15 Socializing
22:?? End of meetup
Talk 1: Writing a Discord bot from scratch... in PHP (by Bram Van der Sype)
When you need to write a long running script that reacts to WebSockets, sends heartbeat pings and communicates asynchronously over HTTP, of course the first language you think of is PHP. Or is it?
In this talk I'll show you how to do just that, with modern PHP and libraries like ReactPHP.
Talk 2: HTTP headers that will make your website go faster (by Thijs Feryn)
Slowdowns or downtime can be the death of any web app or service. These problems, which often happen during traffic spikes, have a detrimental effect on the user experience and can ultimately result in loss of customers and damage to your company’s reputation. Fortunately, there are some simple and effective techniques to mitigate the impact of slowdowns caused by a traffic spikes – but surprisingly, most developers aren’t using these techniques to their full potential: caching HTTP responses.
While there are many caching implementations out there, each with their own specific features and implementation, HTTP already has conventional caching mechanisms built into the protocol, which are respected by most caching systems.
In this presentation, the audience will learn how to leverage some of those built-in mechanisms to control the lifetime of cached objects, create cache variations, perform conditional requests, handle stale data, revalidate expired content, handle errors, and use HTTP placeholders. The various techniques will help developers accelerate their website or application, making it fast regardless of the traffic patterns.
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We look forward seeing you at our meetup!
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We missed you this time around!
Platform Sponsors
Don't let broken lines of code, busted API calls, and crashes ruin you app. Join the 4M developers and 90K organizations who consider Sentry “not bad” when it comes to application monitoring. Use code “guild” for 3 free months of the team plan.
https://sentry.io
WorkOS is a modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs to ship user management, SSO, SCIM, and other enterprise features in minutes instead of months. Some of the hottest startups in the world are powered by WorkOS, including Perplexity, Vercel, and Webflow.
Start selling to enterprises with a few lines of code.
November meetup
Hosted by
Devs.gent
Wednesday, November 29th 2023
1:00PM to 4:00PM EST
Online
Link available to attendees
🍽️ Come hungry: we'll have food and drinks!
đź‘Ť We have a limited amount of spots, so only RSVP (via Meetup) when you are sure you'll be able to make it.
Schedule
19:00 Doors (food and drinks available)
20:00 Talk 1: Bram Van der Sype - Writing a Discord bot from scratch... in PHP
20:45 Talk 2: Thijs Feryn - HTTP headers that will make your website go faster
21:15 Socializing
22:?? End of meetup
Talk 1: Writing a Discord bot from scratch... in PHP (by Bram Van der Sype)
When you need to write a long running script that reacts to WebSockets, sends heartbeat pings and communicates asynchronously over HTTP, of course the first language you think of is PHP. Or is it?
In this talk I'll show you how to do just that, with modern PHP and libraries like ReactPHP.
Talk 2: HTTP headers that will make your website go faster (by Thijs Feryn)
Slowdowns or downtime can be the death of any web app or service. These problems, which often happen during traffic spikes, have a detrimental effect on the user experience and can ultimately result in loss of customers and damage to your company’s reputation. Fortunately, there are some simple and effective techniques to mitigate the impact of slowdowns caused by a traffic spikes – but surprisingly, most developers aren’t using these techniques to their full potential: caching HTTP responses.
While there are many caching implementations out there, each with their own specific features and implementation, HTTP already has conventional caching mechanisms built into the protocol, which are respected by most caching systems.
In this presentation, the audience will learn how to leverage some of those built-in mechanisms to control the lifetime of cached objects, create cache variations, perform conditional requests, handle stale data, revalidate expired content, handle errors, and use HTTP placeholders. The various techniques will help developers accelerate their website or application, making it fast regardless of the traffic patterns.
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We look forward seeing you at our meetup!
Get in touch!
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