June Meetup at Bagaar

For our May meetup we're very happy to be hosted by the nice folks at Bagaar in PAKT (www.pakt-antwerpen.be). We have two great talks lined up for you. Ben will speak about Going Serverless with AWS and Karel will showcase Bagaar's Laravel implementation of the JSON API specification.

We hope to see you there!
Rias, Freek & Dries

SCHEDULE

19:00 - Doors
20:00 - Start

TALKS

Bagaaravel: Bagaar's gentle attempt on a PHP implementation of the JSON API specification by Karel Eeckelaert

In this talk, one of our senior back end developers will introduce you into our homegrown Laravel-based implementation of the JSON API specification. The choice for this specification was not a coincidence and is tied closely with one our favorite front end frameworks: EmberJS. We will focus only on the server responsibilities and keep the front end story out of scope. We will walk together through the basics and outline how resources are fetched and updated. Furthermore, we will show you how x-to-y relationship data is fetched or manipulated. It will also be interesting to look at how we can minimise the amount of data transmitted and let the requester choose what data to include.

Speaker: Karel is a developer @ Bagaar. He is very passionate about all areas of development with a focus on serverside and DevOps-tooling. Big fan of clean API's and tasty IPA's.

Length: 30min

Going Serverless with AWS: Creating applications without provisioning or managing servers by Ben Bridts

The AWS platform has a bunch of services to make your application "serverless". We will take a look at what defines something to be serverless and how we can leverage services like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway and S3 to build our own applications to be cost-effective, scalable and highly-available.

Speaker: Ben Brits 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.

Length: 30min