I recently moderated a panel called Scaling your business with technology at Silicon Beach Fest. I want to thank all the panelists for coming and giving the crowd their tech insights. We had a good discussion across a breadth of issues, from stacks, to clouds to testing and product iterations. I would also like to thank all the folks who came to watch the panel and ask questions. The panel consisted of:

After a few years of developing Erdiko I have learned a few things about what it does well and what other frameworks do better. The PHP language has also changed dramatically since I started Erdiko in 2012. This has lead to a coming to jesus moment where it was clear it’s time for a new architecture. In technology nothing stays constant, so why should the Erdiko framework? This is leading to a new architecture for this micro MVC framework.

A few months back I wrote about headless WordPress on the Arroyo Labs blog, http://blog.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/headless-wordpress-a-primer/ Since then I have made a bunch of improvements to the package on github. Take a look and let me know what you think. We’ll continue to make improvements to the code to make working with WordPress that much easier. https://github.com/ArroyoLabs/erdiko-wordpress If you don’t know what headless WordPress is, it’s a way to run WP as your CMS (admin) yet use another framework/app to theme your content.

Our lead developer at Arroyo Labs has put together a couple of posts to introduce developers to Angular 2 by comparing it to Angular 1. https://www.arroyolabs.com/2016/02/understanding-angularjs-2-vs-angularjs-1-part-1/ https://www.arroyolabs.com/2016/03/understanding-angularjs-2-vs-angularjs-1-part-2/

I am new to MongoDB but this book has been helpful in evaluating and learning about how to scale with it. At work we’ve been thinking about using it for some projects but it was important to investigate and review it in more detail before we jumped into it and added it to our stack. Overall, it’s a great book on Mongo scaling, succinct and complete. It doesn’t elaborate on every possible scaling topic, but it’s enough detail to make important architectural decisions.

Python is a great language for writing scripts that can be easily ran on servers or for writing web and desktop apps. This book helps guide you through the syntax and coding style that make up a python app. It’s definitely one of the more flexible and easy to use modern languages. There are lots of useful code examples and snippets to help you pick up the concepts and write your own apps.