Links from 2016

TL;DR: Links I tweeted during 2016

Last year my interests seemed to have been split in three periods:

1. beginning of the year: CQRS / ES and Mono Repo
2. middle of the year: Event Driven Architecture and async
3. end of the year: Artificial Intelligence

I've also discovered two inspiring talks, I highly recommend you to watch them:

• Surgical Refactors by Justin Searl. It was a follow up of his also awesome previous talk: Make Ruby Great Again
• Software That Writes And Evolves Software by Jessica Kerr, which was then followed by a couple of articles from Rod Johnson

Apart from that, tons of links, as usual.

CQRS / ES and Mono Repo

• Fighting bottlenecks with CQRS
• CQRS sagas with Event Sourcing
• Practical Event Sourcing and CQRS benefits
• Practical Event Sourcing
• On Monolithic Repositories
• MonoRepos
• MonoRepo
• Composer and MonoRepo
• Reasons to use MonoRepos

Generators / Coroutines

• Cooperative multitasking using coroutines in PHP
• PHP Generators by example
• PHP Generators week

Event Driven Architecture

Because PHP 7 will no wait faster for your database/remote/filesystem calls:

• What are the differences between parallel, concurrent and async
• Understanding the NodeJs event loop
• How the single threaded non blocking I/O model work in NodeJs
• PHP-PM follow up
• NoMoreLeaksBundle
• Hunting down memory leaks
• Pushing the limits with ReactPHP
• ReactPHP, Event Driven programming and PHP

Cache

• Caching best practices
• nginx caching guide
• you are probably wrong about caching
• how to implement cache tagging
• caching best practices

Performance

• PHP 7 perf improvements: packed arrays
• PHP 7 perf improvements: ints and floats are free
• PHP garbage collection as a perf bottleneck
• Efficient data structures for PHP 7

Symfony

• No app.dev
• Double Progress Bar
• Bundle dependencies are not needed

Artificial Intelligence

• "Feel Good" videos to understand Neural Networks:
  • Deep Learning demystified
  • How convolutional neural networks work
• Coding a Neural Network from scratch:
  • In 8 lines of Python:
  • Improving with Gradient Descent
  • Improving with dropout
• The Ultimate Developer Guide to Neural Networks:
  • Recognizing handwritten digits
  • How backpropagation works
  • Optimizing backpropagation
  • Visual proof Neural Networks can compute any functions
  • Limits of Backpropagation
  • Deep Neural Networks
• Gentle introduction to the maths:
  • Neural Networks
  • Derivatives of Activation functions
  • Derivative of Error function
• Another introduction to the maths
  • The basics
  • Neural Networks
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Recurrent Neural Networks
• Replacing regex with Neural Networks
• bits of maths:
  • How to take Derivatives
  • Matrix Multiplication

Tests

• Mutation Testing
• Mutation Testing: checking Unit Test quality
• Humbug: Mutation Testing for PHP
• Digging into Humbug
• Giving up on TDD
• TDD does not work
• Inside out TDD VS outside in
• Repetition in testing
• Do not misuse ode coverage
• The outrageous cost of skipping TDD and code reviews
• Do stubs/mock make tests more fragile?
• Mocks are not Stubs
• PHPUnit and propecy
• Using UTF 8 spaces in test method names

Better Code

• Reducing Complexity
• Getting rid of NULL
• Life and Death of objects
• Messages
• Never use NULL
• Anti-if: the missing patterns
• You do not need NULL
• Naming things
• Long names are long
• Value Object
• Organisation du code par modules fonctionnels
• Repositories are just collections
• Hexagonal Layers
• Type Wars
• put VS patch VS json patch
• A little architecture

Tools

• httplug
• PHP Parser v3
• spec-gen
• Prestissimo
• MicroFrameworkBundle
• htop
• Perceptual image hash
• Ramsey UUID
• PHP Printer
• Psysh

Lead & Life

• 5 tips for being an effective tech lead
• Hiring juniors
• Towards an understanding of technical debt
• How to interview as a developer candidate
• How to train your agile
• Follow the leader
• Guérir le burnout est possible
• Being a developer after 40

Misc

• So you want to write a package manager
• HTTP redirects
• habit breaking making
• how to boost your vim productivity
• Git v2.9 and improved diff
• bad YAML are bad
• Thoughts on Uber list of Postgres limitations
• Postgres JSONB cheat sheet
• Annotation Mania
• Always use caret instead of tilde
• The Github GraphQL API
• Why do CPUs have multiple cache levels
• How can the ELK stack be used to monitor PHP apps