The Theory of Constraints - What is it, is it applicable in PHP, and if so, how?

View online   SitePoint PHP Are you familar with the term Theory of Constraints? It's a methodology that teaches the well known "chain is only as strong as its weakest link" idiom, but in regards to a development process - either physical or software. I'd been reading a book called the Phoenix project - a novel about DevOps - and it takes ToC and applies it to software development and deployment. Come join me in this post, where we'll discuss it in a bit more detail and provide some links that can help with identifying bottlenecks and constraints in PHP. Bruno Škvorc PHP Editor   SPONSORED BY ROLLBAR ​​Detect, Diagnose and Defeat PHP Errors with Rollbar ​​Users finding bugs? 😢 Searching logs for errors? 😭 Find and fix broken PHP code fast with Rollbar! Track 5,000 Errors (per month) Free! Try Rollbar for Free!   This Week's Top Links How to Analyze Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning Allan takes us on a ride in Machine Learning land with PHP-ML and explains how to develop a tweet sentiment analyzer with it (positive, negative, neutral) How to Defend Your Website with Zip Bombs Christian shows you how to deliver unexpected and large amounts of data (zip bombs) to people who might be attempting to access or crawl your server. How to Build a Lyrics Website with Laravel Scout and Algolia Let's build a Laravel powered lyrics website and give it the superpower of rapid fuzzy searching with Algolia and Laravel Scout! 8 Must Have PHP Quality Assurance Tools Take a look at this list of 8 PHP Quality Assurance tools - absolute essentials in your passion projects Poka Yoke - Saving Projects with Hyper-Defensive Programming Bert introduces us to the concept of poka yoke - hyper defensive programming by forcing some checks and safeguards that make our code robust and sturdy.   Jobs Front-end Developer (ES6/React/Rails) BIDSKETCH - Remote - Full-Time Hey there. We're Bidsketch, a 100% bootstrapped company that's helping thousands of freelancers, consultants, and sales teams cut their proposal time in half. We're looking for an experienced Front-end developer to help build out the new product we've been working on. Senior Backend Engineer - Payments @ CoinBase COINBASE - San Francisco, CA - Full-Time Coinbase is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the team who has experience in owning an end to end process. The ideal candidate will work on the payment backend and other critical features of the overall infrastructure. Cloud Developer CALLIGO - UK - Full-Time We're looking for Ruby on Rails developers to help us continue to develop our cutting-edge Cloud Management Platform, Viaje.   Best of External Links Should we throw our own errors in PHP 7? In this Reddit discussion, a user wonders if it's fine to throw custom made errors, now that PHP supports them. We've gone through a crash course of those before, but the content of this thread is still very interesting. Go participate! [Reddit.com] Symfony updates directory structure for V4! In an unexpected turn of events, Fabien Potencier - the owner of the Symfony framework - has released a short post explaining some directory structure changes for the upcoming Symfony 4. Finally, /public! [Potencier.org] Converting HTML pages to images with PHP This package can convert web pages to images (relatively) easily. It has some caveats - like needing Chrome 59+ installed - but those are a necessary evil for such a cool feature. [Murze.be] Reducing a programmer's cognitive load In this interesting post, the author presents several methods of development and environment setup (including IDE, fonts, etc) for easing cognitive load and readability. [Stitcher.io] The y2k38 bug - it's coming in 20 years, and it'll be bad Yep - another Y2K scare, but this one is much more real and much more hardcore. Guess we'll see what happens! [Frederickvanbrabant.com] The Preprocess.io site has been beautifully redesigned You can now even play with live, isolated code right then and there on the landing page! A super-high high-five to our author Chris Pitt for making it happen! [Preprocess.io]   Wordpress Themes by Sitepoint Five Themes for the Price of 1 Download our FREE SitePoint Base Theme for Wordpress. Minimal. Clean. Simple. Lightweight. Responsive. The theme developers love to use. It's 100% FREE. Open Source GPL 2.0. Get 5 Themes for $39!     SitePoint | SitePoint Premium 48 Cambridge Street Collingwood, VIC 3066 | Australia You're receiving this email because you signed up to receive news from SitePoint. Smart choice! Preferences  |  Unsubscribe     Like   Tweet   Share   Forward