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We Cover Tech Radar Volume 16 2017: Covering the "NEW" topics staging with Techniques and Tools

Episode Summary

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.thoughtworks.com/radar/faq Enjoy!

Episode Notes

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

they did mention HashiCorp recently

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Tools

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

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

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

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

looks really interesting long term info about servers

Ansilbe role testing!!!!

could be interesting

NLP Processor

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

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.