Books

Tips and Techniques to optimize your Web Pages, Web Server, Application Server and Database Server together with detailed insight into Tuning and Debugging of your application.

Master Domain-Driven Design Tactical patterns: Entities, Value Objects, Services, Domain Events, Aggregates, Factories, Repositories and Application Services; with real examples in PHP. Explore the advantages of Hexagonal Architecture and understand Strategic design with Bounded Contexts and their integration through REST and message queues.

The objective of the book is to introduce its  reader to the world of design patterns by working through some important ones. It is not an exaustive reference text on design patterns, rather a friendly tutorial type text. The reader is expected to be familiar with programming in an object oriented language like Java or Python. 

The only thing we truly know about software development is that we can expect changes to our system.Through concrete examples, let's explore ways to build flexible, adaptable software systems by better understanding Kent Beck's 4 Rules of Simple Design.

This is the classic volume on every variety of technical review of programs, designs, tests, documentation, plans, requirements, ...

This book helps you design an application with the UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling tool, Enterprise Architect.It shows you how to write a Business Requirement Document (BRD) using a real-life Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, an application with 20 years in the market.

This is the uncomplicated and practical guide, to building real asynchronous PHP applications, that you've been waiting for.

If you read the tech press, everyone knows they need an API but most aren't really sure what it is. They treat it as another checkbox like "Web 2.0" was a few years ago or a mobile app was most recently. In fact, there's an entire "API-first" movement in development circles that most people don't understand or even realize why..

Is Scaling PHP a pain in the ass? You're not exactly the next Facebook, but you're big enough, and it costs real money when your site goes down in the middle of the night. Scaling PHP Apps is filling in a ton of unexpected gaps in my server knowledge - Chris Fidao It's a damn good read, very useful for my new job. Setting up Nginx to play nice with PHP-FPM now. - Phil Sturgeon