#News


##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