How Silex and Cilex became the glue for a media transcoding application (TrueNorthPHP 2013)

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
2. Stefan Koopmanschap • PHP developer since ’97/’98 • Ingewikkeld and Techademy • Several PHP communities • Regular conference speaker
3. Managing expectations
4. Cilex Silex
5. cc-by 2.0 homespothq.com
6. The problem
8. media management transcoding
9. media management transcoding transcoding management
10. Deciding on technology
11. What happens? • Mediamanagement delivers XML and source file • Transcoding expects sourcefile and API call
12. Choosing the framework • Plain PHP • Symfony2 • ZFTool • Cilex
13. Cilex + PDO
14. The task at hand
15. Tasks • Monitor • Validate • Send to Codem • Wait for feedback • Finalize • Publish
16. Video Bitrate Bitrate Bitrate Bitrate
17. media management transcoding transcoding management
18. media management transcoding transcoding management
19. media management transcoding transcoding management
20. Changing requirements
21. media management transcoding transcoding management polling
22. media management transcoding transcoding management push
23. transcoding management ! ! ! ! ! Cilex Silex
24. Cilex + PDO + Silex
25. Changing requirements (again)
26. Functional application management • Quickly see recent jobs • See which jobs failed, and why • Search for old jobs
27. Cilex + PDO + Silex + Twig
28. What does it look like?
29. The ever-changing requirements
30. Choose your tool wisely
31. Start out simple
32. https://joind.in/9983