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Latest PHPArch Articles of Interest new issue out 01-2016!

Writing better CLI Tools

Using selenium and a virtual frame buffer for behat tests on a headless server

http://zigbop.io/blog/using-selenium-and-a-virtual-frame-buffer-forbehat-tests-on-a-headless-server

Better Together: Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/better-together-amazon-ecs-and-aws-lambda/

Mock Roles Not Objects

http://www.jmock.org/oopsla2004.pdf

Simplification is the Technology Trend for 2016

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/simplification-technology-trend-2016-werner-vogels

Laravel 5.2 New Features

https://laravel-news.com/2015/12/laravel-5-2-is-released/

Angular Material

https://material.angularjs.org/latest/

Latest Readings

Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble

Last Chapter was Testing

Deep Dive

The Video we went with

AWS re:Invent 2014 | (BDT203) From Zero to NoSQL Hero: Amazon DynamoDB Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDqLwzQEOmM

The Video we almost went with

It was going to be CraigsList and NoSQL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0OvgTfF8Pg

But it had almost nothing on NoSQL :(

Some quick points though from it.

“There is no stack anymore” Marten Mickos eg LAMP but not it is mixed NoSQL, MySQL, Redis etc and that is the biggest take away so far for me

Archiving is a common use for NoSQL