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You can join the Zoom Session at the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/510504984?pwd=VU50alBpU29MWk5qQzVma0t1NUY1Zz09

[Update 16 March] We have not cancelled - Online Only

In light of national guidelines following COVID-19 being classified as a National Disaster, we have taken the decision to only stream this week's meetup without any in-person event.

It is with excitement that we move into a new era of streaming and look forward to establishing a new "business-as-usual" together online.

RSVP to get your Zoom streaming link on Thursday.
The session will open at 18h00 with the meetup presentation starting at 19h00 – just like any other month.

Afterwards, we will attempt to use (abuse?) Zoom’s features to socialize for anyone who wants to hang around. In trying times like these, community is important. We look forward to you still joining us even though it cant be in person.

Moving towards streaming the meetup is a challenging, yet exciting, proposition. If you have any thoughts or ideas on how to make it great, please let us know via a message on meetup.com. Also, if you know anyone who would be interested in our meetup but is usually unable to attend, now it the time to invite them :)

We look forward to seeing you online

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[Update 13 March] OPTIONAL REMOTE ATTENDANCE

While South Africa is not a region currently classified by the WHO as having "local transmission" of COVID-19, as organizers we feel it is important to have contingency and look after our community.

For this reason we will be offering the option of streaming this month's meetup presentation for those who wish to attend remotely. Simply indicate in your RSVP that you will be attending remotely and we will send you a streaming link on the day.

As things currently stand, you are still welcome to attend in person. In line with community guidelines, there will be hand sanitiser available and we will skip serving food this month. Now, more than ever, it is important for us to be able to track attendance so we will have to turn away anyone who has not RSVPed ahead of time.

Similarly, if you start to exhibit flu-like symptoms, please rather attend remotely.

Tim is back and he has something awesome to share with all of us!
He’s been working on a ‘base’ to help jumpstart new projects past all of the tedious initial boilerplate. Get ready for a practical talk involving some Laravel, some frontend, some infrastructure and lots of containers from our resident docker guru and favorite opinionated engineer.

Tim describes his talk as follows:

Who hates having to redo all the same boilerplate code everytime you want to start a new project? Alternatively, who struggles to figure out where to even get started with a new project?

If either of these questions describe you, then this talk might help.

I will be showing off a new starter project that I’ve been working on to help you get and running fast.

It includes:

  • Dockerfiles for local dev:
  • Postgres
  • Redis
  • ELK (All the logs!)
  • Traefik
  • Minio (Storage S3 compatible)
  • Mail Relay
  • Portainer
  • Laravel project with:
  • Authentication
  • Basic User Management
  • Several helper libraries
  • Frontend (built with Angular)

The project is still in its early days so it still needs quite a bit of work, but even so, it should help everyone. Hopefully we have something that we can jointly improve and make better so that we can all save each other time and effort.

Tim is another longtime member (and organizer) of the PHP Joburg Meetup and a key source of ‘DevOps’ insight in our community. He’s the founder of an independent technology consultancy of independent full stack developers specialising in web application development, deployment, and maintenance.

See you on Thursday!

You can reach us on:

  • @joburgphp (twitter)
  • @bsinkwa (twitter)

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