First physical+online post-corona PHPBenelux + BrusselsPHP meetup

For the first time since the awful Corona period we're organizing a physical, on-location PHPBenelux + BrusselsPHP meetup again (while still live streaming for anyone who wants to join in online).

Host for this meetup is Cu.be Solutions, the driving force behind the BrusselsPHP meetup. And for this first post-corona meetup, we have 2 excellent speakers, food, drinks, raffles and a lot of fun and laughter we've missed for a long time !

Have a 👀 at the schedule below.
INTERESTED IN SPEAKING? Mail us at meetup@phpbenelux.eu.
📝 Schedule (talk descriptions further down)

• 19:00 - 19:15: Welcome and housekeeping notes
• 19:15 - 20:05: Thomas Shone - MySQL with 🔔 & 🎵
• 20:05 - 20:20: Break
• 20:20 - 21:10: Thijs Feryn - Advanced HTTP logging with Varnish
• 21:10 - 21:25: Closing notes and raffle
• 21:25 - ... : drinks, conversation, ...

Note that we will limit the number of people who can join in at the physical location for this first meetup. For now the limit is 20 people, which can be raised if the situation allows for it. So sign up quickly and if there's no spots available anymore, put your name on the reserve list !

Thomas Shone - MySQL with 🔔 & 🎵

Dive into MySQL to explore our Cargo Culting behaviours and the inner workings of MySQL that explain how the Cargo Culting formed and some useful tricks you may not knw about.

* What happens when a table doesn't have a primary key?
* What does a sane primary key look like?
* What is a clustered index?
* How do indexes work?
* How should I design my indexes and how do I know if it is actually being used?
* What tools are there out there to make my life easier?

Thijs Feryn - Advanced HTTP logging with Varnish
Varnish has become an industry standard for caching and web acceleration. A side-effect is that it comes with some excellent tools for logging.
In this presentation we'll use tools like varnishlog, varnishtop and varnishncsa to get some advanced insights on the HTTP traffic patterns of your web platforms.
You probably know the Apache log format? In this presentation we'll take it to a whole other level and perform request & response introspection, get speed and latency measurements, perform advanced content filtering and get statistics on connections, request and response details.
Even if you're not planning to cache anything, Varnish could be an excellent tool for logging at large scale.

💸 Event sponsoring
A special gratitude goes out to [Cu.be](https://cu.be/?rel=meetup-202205) for hosting the event and providing catering.
Interested in becoming a sponsor at our next event? Send us an email to contact@brusselsphp.be and we’ll make it happen!

# 📢 Important links

## The virtual meetup room

• Link : https://phpbenelux.clickmeeting.com/meetup-may-2022
• Use password “communityworks!”