Speaking at DPC10
Today the schedule for the Dutch PHP Conference 2010 (AKA DPC10) was officially released. And I’m happy to announce that I’m part of it.
My talk is called PHP through the eyes of a hoster and will portray PHP from an entirely different point of view than the usual developer, designer, QA, manager way we’re all used to.
The concept for this talk originates from my (give or take) 6 years experience within the Combell support team. Over the years I’ve seen tons of crazy cases which have thought me a lot about PHP.
For those who don’t know us, we’re the largest independent hosting company in Belgium and we have positioned ourselves in the quality segment. We have a lot of different types of customers, ranging from small one man businesses to large enterprises. Each of these have their own expectations, but also a different way in which they deal with hosting and PHP.
The funny thing is that we have the same goals as regular developers:
- It has to work
- It has to work fast
- It has to scale
- it has to be secure
But we use different instruments to achieve our goal:
- We don’t write code
- We sometimes interprete code
- We install PHP
- We tweak runtime configurations
- We analyze logs & error messages
- We migrate applications
- We perform monitoring & profiling
- We perform disastery recovery
- We deal with hacked sites & abuse
- We offer customers general best practices
Come see me in Amsterdam June 11th. I’ll be speaking at 13h30 in track 3. Check out the schedule for more info.
Thanks to Lorna and the DPC crew for this lovely opportunity.
