



CTRL+ALT Philly
💻🧙♂️Calling all keyboard wizards!
CTRL+ALT Philly is a monthly meetup for developers who love building things, and learning how to build them better.
Brought to you by Sentry.io.
Javascript, PHP, Mobile, and beyond! If you’re shipping code and love to talk shop, this is the place for you.
🗓️ Agenda
[6:00-6:30] Doors Open
Grab some food/drink
Collect your sticker
Meet the attendees
[6:30-6:35] Welcome & Intro
Welcome to CTRL+ALT Philly!
[6:35-7:00] Cache Me If You Can: Outrunning Slow Web Requests
👤Speaker: Graham Vasquez
📝Description: We are going to dive into caching strategies for web services, from small apps you might host on a VPS, to large distributed systems in the cloud. We'll get into app caches like Redis and Memcached, CDNs like Cloudflare and Fastly, and more specialized caches like Varnish and CoreDNS (With the cache plugin that is).
[7:00-7:30] What is a Tape Archive File?
👤Speaker: Kyle Tryon
📝Description: Tar files are the backbone of transporting software and backups on Unix systems. Its been the most common archiving format since its creation in the 80s. But what is it? And is it still relevant today?
[7:30-8:20] Break + Show & Tell
Grab food, hang out, meet local devs.
Show & Tell - share your apps, websites, and more.
[8:20-8:30] Closing out
Sign up to become a speaker!
🎤 Call for speakers!
Have something cool to share? A lesson learned, a tool you love, or an idea that others should hear?
Submit a talk: https://forms.gle/DgBxHi4oQ5ePUpg49
🎉 Join us for our first session and help shape Philly’s newest dev community.
📣 Spread The Word!
Tell your friends and coworkers about #CTRLATLPhilly
🗣️ Your Host
Kyle Tryon (@techsquidtv) is a Philly-based developer, content creator, and DevEx Engineer at Sentry.
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