News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app) [CGR]

https://github.com/alnutile/cli_skel
great command line starter library for PHP with a focus on testing, CI and code quality

NK:

How Can We Optimize AI for the Greatest Good, Instead of Profit?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608049/how-can-we-optimize-ai-for-the-greatest-good-instead-of-profit

Al:

PHPArchitect - June 2017
Protocol Buffers
by Christopher Mancini
https://github.com/christophermancini/protobuf-php-performance

NK:

Laravel’s Dependency Injection Container in Depth
https://davejamesmiller.com/2017/06/15/laravel-illuminate-container-in-depth

Deep Dive

Tech Radar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Theme, microservice and machine learning

Techniques

• Decoupling secret management from source code

they did mention HashiCorp recently

• Legacy in a box

I am always impressed when I have that experience on a site
and realize how much it makes sense for most sites

• Progressive Web Applications

• Prototyping with InVision and Sketch

even as a non designer this stuff can be important to get an idea across

• Conversationally aware API

context aware API
I was thinking about this the other day in Slack for getting a stack
-- api around this

• Platform engineering product teams.

• but not a devops team

• Social code analysis

enriches our understanding of the code quality by overlaying a developer's behavior with the structural analysis of the code
We get this out of PHP http://www.phpmetrics.org/
and the social side that is interesting though

• CI Theater

Sadly, many developers simply set up a CI server and falsely assume they are "doing CI" when in reality they miss out on all the benefits. Common failure modes include: running CI against a shared mainline but with infrequent commits, so integration isn't really continuous; running a build with poor test coverage; allowing the build to stay red for long periods; or running CI against feature branches which results in continuous isolation. The ensuing "CI theatre" might make people feel good, but would fail any credible CI certification test.

• Enterprise-wide integration test environments

contract testing
decoupling deployment from release
focus on mean time to recovery
testing in production.

• spec-based codegen

not making code from these tools "Swagger/RAML" till the robots take over

Tools

• Airflow [read more]

is a tool to programmatically create, schedule and monitor data pipeline

• Cake and Fake

more new and good tools coming out of MS but this time for .NET

• Serverless Framework

man do I wish I had more time https://serverless.com/

• Amazon Rekognition

• Claudia

Claudia makes it easy to deploy Node.js projects to AWS Lambda and API Gateway. It automates all the error-prone deployment and configuration tasks, and sets everything up the way JavaScript developers expect out of the box

• InSpec

looks really interesting long term info about servers

• Molecule

Ansilbe role testing!!!!

• Spaemacs

could be interesting

• SpaCy

NLP Processor

• Spinnaker

Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence.

• Testinfra

too much manual qa right now for me
Testinfra aims to be a Serverspec equivalent in Python and is written as a plugin to the Pytest test engine.

• Yarn

News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app) Copied – Copy and Paste Everywhere by Kevin Chang

http://copiedapp.com/

Make sure to enable the keyboard

NK: Intro Video to Pickle - a BDD layer on top of Dusk and PHPUnit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmA-6hnhljI&feature=youtu.be

https://github.com/alnutile/pickle

Al: Github moving to GraphQL

https://developer.github.com/v4/

NK: IBM tells thousands of remote employees to come back to office or find new jobs

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/ibm-to-remote-workers-come-back-to-the-mothership-or-else/

Deep Dive

Do not fear the Queue

Queue usage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_queue

The many levels it can benefit your workflow and how you solve problems

Use Cases

Parallel tasks

Connect two different languages with json

Split up services offload work - Microservice

Allows you to work locally on a part of your App that later you can move off to a microservice or worker

Prevent database sharing

Sending Mail

Importing Files

Database buffer

Long running jobs

How to Implement

Locally using Sync Driver

Laracast

https://laracasts.com/search?q=Queue

Beanstalk

SQS

Iron

Forge

FortRabbit with CloudAMQP https://help.fortrabbit.com/cloudamqp

Homestead

AWS SQS

S3 for large payloads

How to deploy

Laravel Daemon pretty simple

Database

--simple start

--local jobs vs remote

Gotchas

Retries

SNS Format

You gotta restart the queue

Interesting how Laravel does it with timestamp

Have wasted a day on this in the past

Logs can will up if queue is erroring out

Failed jobs

Queue has limit 256 k limit

Visibility timeout

Links

Beanstalk

https://laracasts.com/lessons/beanstalkd-queues-with-laravel

etc

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/queues#supervisor-configuration
link to sns

News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app)

Moom

https://manytricks.com/moom/

NK: Leaflet - an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps

http://leafletjs.com/

Al:

https://martinfowler.com//bliki/PurposeOfEstimation.html

Just a reminder that quotes are not to lock you in but to help decide if the work is even worth taking on

NK: Design Patterns - A collection of design patterns in PHP translated from the book “Head First Design Patterns”.

https://github.com/PavelLoparev/design-patterns

Deep Dive

Testing When Why and How

Kent Beck : “I get paid for code that works, not for tests”

What kinds of tests are there?

• Units / Units
• Integration / Inside
• Acceptance / Outside
• Contract Tests

How important is it that tests align with the business language and domain context?

Do tests ever get in the way of writing code?

http://stakeholderwhisperer.com/posts/2014/10/introducing-modelling-by-example

Being proud of 100% test coverage is like being proud of reading every word in the newspaper. Some are more important than others. - Kent Beck

What if it is a POC and should it have tests?

Helping to think through the idea

Testing later never works

How to get started as a new to testing developer

Contract Test Notes

News & Other Happenings

UnitTest - Al

Adam Watham link to Martin Fowler

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

Vue.js Comparison with Other Frameworks - Nathan

https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/comparison.html

PHPStan - PHP Static Analysis Tool - Al

Found in PHPArch

https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan

Shipping Docker - Nathan

https://shippingdocker.com/

Tool(s)

Alfred Plugin to set a Do not Disturb Time

https://github.com/mlantz/DND-Alfred-Workflow

Deep Dive

The 4th of 4 as we cover ThoughtWork's Technology Radar - Languages and Frameworks

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/languages-and-frameworks

News & Other Happenings

Al (tool/app)

TextExpander/Auto Text

https://smilesoftware.com/textexpander

http://lifehacker.com/5843903/the-best-text-expansion-app-for-mac

Even Alfred Plugin

Point is be more efficient including clipboard history into string etc and syncing

NK:

Laravel Dusk Browser Testing

https://www.sitepoint.com/laravel-dusk-intuitive-and-easy-browser-testing-for-all/

Al:

The five stages of BDD (and Agile) Adoption

http://johnfergusonsmart.com/five-stages-bdd-agile-adoption/

"define more objective metrics, preferably independent of the process you are following"

ReadOrListen version here http://www.readorlisten.com/15

NK:

Single Action Controllers in Laravel

https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/single-action-controllers-in-laravel

Deep Dive

TechRadar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/platforms

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

https://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-nov-2016-en.pdf

News & Other Happenings

Al
“Abstracting HTTP Clients in PHP
By David Buchmann”
Excerpt From: php[architect]. “php[architect] - December 2016.” iBooks.
Yes I am still in December!

NK:
Use your eyes and Deep Learning to command your computer
https://hackernoon.com/talk-to-you-computer-with-you-eyes-and-deep-learning-a-i-odyssey-part-2-7d3405ab8be1#.qujsg472u

Al
AWS re:Invent 2016: Life Without SSH: Immutable Infrastructure in Production (SAC318)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEuN5LkXfZk

NK: When Trump Tweets, This Bot Makes Money
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/04/513469456/when-trump-tweets-this-bot-makes-money

Deep Dive

Discussion pattern
Name the Section eg Adopt
Name the item eg Pipeline as Code
Quick summary if needed
Round robin x minutes each

TechRadar
https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/tools

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar
https://assets.thoughtworks.com/assets/technology-radar-nov-2016-en.pdf

Tools (Section 2 of 4)

Adopt

babel
consul
grafana
packer

Trail
apache kafka
espresso
fastlane
galen
hashicorp
JSONassert
Let's Encrypt
Load Impact
OWASP Dependency Check
Pa11y
ServerSpec
Talisman
Terroform
tmate
Webpack
ziplin

Asses
androad x86
axios
bottled water
clojurel.spec
FBSnatshotTestcase
Grasp
LambdaCD
Pinpoint
Pitest
Repsheet
Scikit-learn

HOLD
Jenkins as a deployment pipeline

News & Other Happenings

Al - PHPArch December 2016

Behat - Beyond Browser Testing
https://www.phparch.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Behat-Beyond_Browser_Automation-phparchitect-December2016.pdf
Konstantin (Con-Stan-Teen) Kudryashov

NK - Laravel Dusk is Coming

https://laravel-news.com/laravel-dusk-is-coming

Al - Shipping Docker all the videos

https://shippingdocker.com/dockerized-app/

Chris Fadao

NK - The Only Skill You Should Be Concerned With

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141113191054-103457178-the-only-skill-you-should-be-concerned-with

Deep Dive

Tech Radar

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

We begin to talk about 1 of the 4 topics, Techniques, in these radar releases. Take some time to learn about these thought-provoking snippets of what is out there for us to consider in our day to day work flow and maybe what not to consider.

Techniques, Tools, Platforms, Languages/Frameworks

Link to PDF - though the website data has more details

We will cover Techniques (Section 1 of 4)

News & Other Happenings

Machine Learning is Fun

https://medium.com/@ageitgey/machine-learning-is-fun-80ea3ec3c471#.wlk5uwkvd

Three Horizons of Innovation

https://steveblank.com/2015/06/26/lean-innovation-management-making-corporate-innovation-work/

Generate Migrations from Existing Database

https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator

ServerLess

http://docs.serverless.com/v0.5.0/docs
http://serverlessconf.io/

Laravel 5.3

https://laravel-news.com/2016/06/look-whats-coming-laravel-5-3
and
https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-deep-dive-into-laravel-5-3-features

Latest Readings

Videos
Jez Humble and David

Nathan
“Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804139296

Deep Dive

Slowing down to Speed Up

News & Other Happenings

PHPArch May 2016 Mastering Oauth2 Ben Ramsey

Vue.js 2.0

https://medium.com/the-vue-point/announcing-vue-js-2-0-8af1bde7ab9#.87222rvto

Event Sourcing - Martin Fowler

http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/EventSourcing.html

PHP 7.1 Updates

https://dotdev.co/upcoming-changes-in-php-7-1-76ebea53b820#.ttl517y8f

Microsoft Cognitive Services API

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/

Laravel API Document Generator

https://github.com/mpociot/laravel-apidoc-generator

Latest Readings

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

Deep Dive

Feature Flags
Library
https://github.com/alfred-nutile-inc/laravel-feature-flag

Article
https://alfrednutile.info/posts/175

Etsy and others
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR-ccCTmMKY

News & Other Happenings

PHPArch February 2016 Looking forward to the “Docker for PHP” by Ben Hosmer

Preventing API Drift with Contract Tests

http://adamwathan.me/2016/02/01/preventing-api-drift-with-contract-tests/

Diving Into a Laravel Audit by Jesse Schutt

http://zaengle.com/blog/diving-in-to-a-laravel-audit

Tired Of Waiting for NPM and Composer

http://jackmcdade.com/blog/tired-of-waiting

Why I Strive to be a 0.1x Engineer Benji Weber

http://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/

NK - ## Multiple Authentication Guard Drivers
https://mattstauffer.co/blog/multiple-authentication-guard-drivers-including-api-in-laravel-5-2

Deep Dive

Stop Hiring DevOps Experts and Start Growing Them by Jez Humble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m9nCtyn6kE

News & Other Happenings

PHPArch January 2016 “Finding the Solution to the Problem”

Ditching Scrum for Kanban — The best decision we’ve made as a team

https://medium.com/cto-school/ditching-scrum-for-kanban-the-best-decision-we-ve-made-as-a-team-cd1167014a6f#.yifsdma0r

AngularJS 2 Beta 1: Hello World With ES5 And RequireJS by Ben Nadel

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2996-angularjs-2-beta-1-hello-world-with-es5-and-requirejs.htm

The DOs and DON'Ts of Blue/Green Deployment

http://cloudnative.io/blog/2015/02/the-dos-and-donts-of-bluegreen-deployment/

Feature Toggles

http://martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html by Pete Hodgson

An Ansible Tutorial

https://serversforhackers.com/an-ansible-tutorial

Latest Readings

Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble

Latest Chapter is The Commit Stage

Deep Dive

ThoughtWorks Technology Radar Nov, 15

https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar