We Cover Tech Radar Volume 16 2017: Covering the \"NEW\" topics staging with Techniques and Tools
We cover the NEW items in the 2017 Thoughtwork's Technology Radar. There will be 2 parts to this series this one on Techniques and Tools the next on Platforms and Languages/Frameworks (still no PHP :( ) Learn more about Technology Radar here https://www.t
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