How Silex and Cilex became the glue for a media transcoding application (php[tek] 2014)

Symfony2 is awesome, but can be overkill for some applications. During this talk, you will hear about a use case for using the Silex microframework for web and the Cilex microframework for CLI, and how these frameworks combined became the glue to the components of the media transcoding application that powers the majority of on-demand adaptive streaming for the Dutch public broadcasting organization NPO.

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1. Cilex & Silex
   became the glue for a media transcoding application
   How
   

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2. Stefan Koopmanschap
   • PHP developer since ’97/’98
   
   • Ingewikkeld and Techademy
   
   • Several PHP communities
   
   • Regular conference speaker
   

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3. Managing expectations
   

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4. Cilex Silex
   

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5. cc-by 2.0 homespothq.com
   

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6. The problem
   

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8. media management
   transcoding
   

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9. media management
   transcoding
   transcoding management
   

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10. Deciding on technology
    

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11. What happens?
    • Mediamanagement delivers XML and
    source file
    
    • Transcoding expects sourcefile and API call
    

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12. Choosing the framework
    • Plain PHP
    
    • Symfony2
    
    • ZFTool
    
    • Cilex
    

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13. Cilex + PDO
    

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14. The task at hand
    

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15. Tasks
    • Monitor
    
    • Validate
    
    • Send to Codem
    
    • Wait for feedback
    
    • Finalize
    
    • Publish
    

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16. Video
    Bitrate
    Bitrate
    Bitrate
    Bitrate
    

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17. media management
    transcoding
    transcoding management
    

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18. media management
    transcoding
    transcoding management
    

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19. media management
    transcoding
    transcoding management
    

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20. Changing requirements
    

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21. media management
    transcoding
    transcoding management
    polling
    

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22. media management
    transcoding
    transcoding management
    push
    

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23. transcoding management
    
    !
    !
    !
    !
    !
    Cilex
    Silex
    

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24. Cilex + PDO + Silex
    

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25. Changing requirements
    (again)
    

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26. Functional application
    management
    • Quickly see recent jobs
    
    • See which jobs failed, and why
    
    • Search for old jobs
    

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27. Cilex + PDO + Silex +
    Twig
    

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28. What does it look like?
    

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29. The ever-changing
    requirements
    

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30. Choose your tool
    wisely
    

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31. Start out simple
    

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32. https://joind.in/10659
    

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