August Meetup @ These Days

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TALKS

#1: A bird's eye view on API development - the live action version!

In this talk Frederick is going to prove he is more then just a pretty face! The talk will cover the basics of api design and will move on to more advanced topics like authentication and file uploads. The talk itself is based on his blogpost ( http://blog.madewithlove.be/post/birdseye-view-on-api/ ) but will delve deeper into the topics discussed there. The talk is language agnostic, so even if you're into some obscure programming language you can still adapt the techniques discussed.

Bio speaker: Frederick is a less then 30 year old developer from Antwerp with a passion for API's and everything that surrounds them. He works as a Software Engineer at madewithlove (www.madewithlove.be) and is co-organiser of PHPAntwerp (https://www.meetup.com/phpantwerp/).

Talk length: 30 minutes

#2: Building PHP applications with AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. Building on AWS reduces the time and effort spent on undifferentiated heavy lifting, so you can focus on the core strengths of your product.

In this talk we take a look at some of the managed services that AWS offers, and how you can integrate them into your php application. The focus will be on the services that are most commonly needed in a web application (data storage, e-mail, queueing) and how you use them with the AWS SDK.

Bio speaker: Ben started using AWS in 2010 and is currently part of the team at Cloudar, where he works on everything AWS related. With experience in both development and operations, he helps planning, implementing and running high available and elastic scalable infrastructure. He has worked an all kinds of projects, from an auto-provisioned n-tiered application to a completely serverless api.

Talk length: 40 minutes