Resources

This is a collection of useful resources that taught me somethign or that I find very useful and good. Also, kind of a noteblock for myself.

Architecture

• draw.io - Open Source Diagram Tool.
• Archi - The Open Source modelling toolkit for creating ArchiMate models and sketches
• Arc42 - All you ever need to construct, communicate and document your software architecture.
• iSAQB - The International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB®) brings together professional software architecture experts from industry, consulting, training, academia, and other organizations.
• TOGAF - The Open Group Architecture Framework
• BPMN, DMN and Form Builder - Web-based tooling for BPMN, DMN and Forms.
• Egon - A Domain Story Modeler.
  • Online Version
• RESTful Objects Specification - Restful Objects is a standard covering RESTful interfaces to domain object models.

Books

Architecture

• Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans.
• Implementing Domain-Driven Design by Vernon Vaughn.
• Domain-Driven Design Distilled - Read this before the former two, but it won’t replace them!
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler.
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert Martin
• Mastering Non-Functional Requirements: Templates and tactics for analysis, architecture and assessment by Sameer Paradkar.
• Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph E. Johnson, John Vlissides.
• Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton & Manuel Pais.

UX

• Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems by Steve Krug.
• Humane Interface, The: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems by Jef Raskin.

Leadership

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni is a book about team building and team work.
• How to Lead Smart People: Leadership for Professionals

Websites

• The clean code blog by Robert C. Martin
• Refactoring Guru - A nice list of patterns and refactoring techniques.
• Microservice Architecture - by Chris Richardson - Everything about Microservices & Distributed Systems
• Eventmodeling.org - Event Modeling is a method of describing systems using an example of how information has changed within them over time.
• Connascence.io - Connascence is a software quality metric & a taxonomy for different types of coupling.
• Impactmapping.org - Impact maps show assumptions and a connection between business goals, impacts on users and stakeholders, and team deliverables.
• Wardley Mapping
• Event Storming - Offical Event Storming Website by Alberto Brandolini.

Conference Websites

• Explore DDD
• DDD Europe

News

• Reddits PHP Section - Reddits PHP section.
• InfoQ
• Dzone

DDD Companies

• https://maibornwolff.de/
• https://innoq.com/

Misc

• Lindy Effect - The Lindy effect (also known as Lindy’s Law[1]) is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age.
• Conways Law - Conway’s law is an adage linking the communication structure of organizations to the systems they design.
• Goodharts Law - Its basically saying that a metric becomes bad one if one just aims for fulfilling the numbers without respect to quality.

Youtube

Conference Talks

• KanDDDisnky Conference Talks
• NDC Conference Talks
• DDD Europe Conference Talks
• GOTO Conferences
• Explore DDD Conference
• Tech Excellence

People

• Eberhard Wolf Software Architecture Topics by Eberhard Wolf (in German)
• Code Opinion - Software Architecture Architecture and c#, by Derek Comartin
• Continious Delivery CI/CD focused, by Dave Farley
• MilanJovanovicTech Architecture basics & c#, by Milan Jovanovic.

Other

• Clean Coders

People to follow on Twitter / X

• Alberto Brandolini @ziobrando
• Amichai Mantinband @amantinband
• Daniel Bryant @danielbryantuk
• Dan Patrascu @danpdc
• Derek Comartin @codeopinion
• Explore DDD Conference. @exploreddd
• Eduardo da Silva @emgsilva
• Eric Evans @ericevans0
• EventModeling @EventModeling
• Frank de Jonge @frankdejonge
• Greg Young @gregyoung
• KanDDDinsky Conference @KanDDDinsky
• Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney
• Manuel Pais @manupaisable
• Martin Fowler @martinfowler
• Matthias Noback @matthiasnoback
• Michael Plöd @bitboss
• Ross Tuck @rosstuck
• Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin
• Vaughn Vernon @VaughnVernon
• Virtual Domain Driven Design @virtualDDD

PHP

PHP Libraries

• Prooph Event Store - Prooph Event Story Library
• Nyholm PSR7 Server - PSR7 Server Library
• Ramsey UUID - UUID Library
• Beberlei Assert - Assertion Library
• Webmozar Assert - Assertion Library
• JSON API
• Automapper - PHP version of the c# Automapper library, an object mapper.
• AutoShell - A shell without further dependencies. I/O not included (use something like CLImate).
• API Platform - A Symfony based API framework / boilerplate.

PHP Dev Tools

• CI/CD
  • phive - The Phar Installation and Verification Environment (PHIVE)
  • gh-ci - Github for the CLI
  • grumphp - Pre-Commit Checks using different tools
  • nektos/act - Run Github Workflows locally
• Testing
  • phpunit - Unit testing
• Debugging
  • kint - Debuggin Utility with zero dependenices
• Architecture:
  • phpstan - Static Analyzer
  • composer-dependency-analyser - Detects unused, shadow and misplaced composer dependencies.
  • phpcs / phpcbf - Code Sniffer and Auto-Fixer
  • PHPArkitect - Hou to keep your PHP codebase coherent and solid, by permitting to add some architectural constraint check to your workflow.
  • phpat - PHP Architecture Tester

Alternative PHP Servers

• FrankenPHP - A PHP server written in GO.
• Roadrunner - A PHP Server written in Go.

Uncommon PHP Frameworks

The framework listed here are explicitly not the well known big ones.

• Spiral - Elegant high-performance framework + Roadrunner.
• Hyperf - Co-routine based framwork (requires Swoole) that also features AOP (optionally).
• Goaop - An aspect-Oriented Framework for PHP that doesn’t require any PECL-extentions.

Java

Frameworks

• Spring Boot - The Spring Boot Framework.
• OSGi - The Dynamic Module System for Java.

Websites

• Spring Academy - A very good learning resource, free and paid content.
• Baldung - Free and paid learning resources.

Tools

• SDK Man - The Software Development Kit Manager (Linux or WSL2 only, requires Bash).
• pgAdmin - Posgres Admin Tool.

Windows Tools

• Scoop - Command line package manager.
• Chocolaty - Package manager.
• Windows Terminal - Windows Terminal.
• Procmon - Advanced Process Monitor.

Cross OS Tools

• Flameshot - For Screenshots.