PHP must watch

1. Basics
2. General
3. Architecture and Design
4. Performance and Scalability
5. Security
6. Testing
7. Frameworks
8. Others
9. Advanced

A list of interesting conference talks and great videos on PHP. Inspired by js-must-watch

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Basics

• Composer, Autoloading, Namespacing, and PHPUnit - Tuts+ Code [23:53]
• Clean Code I: Arguments - Uncle Bob, not PHP-specific [53:33]
• Clean Code II: Functions - Uncle Bob, not PHP-specific [51:30]

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General

• PHPCraft SouthAfrica Keynote 2014 - Rasmus Lerdorf [1:00:43]
• It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase - Paul M. Jones at Nashville PHP [47:44]
• My Take on PHP - Fabien Potencier at dotScale 2014 [18:19]
• The Modern Developer Toolbox - Pablo Godel at PHPNW14 [49:55]
• PHP-FIG:History and Future - Phil Sturgeon at PHP CRAFT SouthAfrica 2014 [1:05:01]
• PHP 5.NEXT: The New Bits - Davey Shafik at PHP UK Conference 2014 [42:40]
• Your (coding) standards matter - Volker Dusch at PHPNW13 [45:00]
• HHVM in 2014 - Elizabeth Smith at php[tek] 2014 [58:58]
• In Depth Composer - Jordi Boggiano at Laracon EU 2013 [46:49]
• HTTP and Your Angry Dog - Ross Tuck at Laracon 2013 [52:14]
• Introduction to NoSQL - Martin Fowler at GOTO Conference 2013 [54:51]
• Vagrant Provisioners In A Nutshell - Erika Heidi at PHP UK Conference 2014 [47:01]
• Debugging: Past, Present and Future - Derick Rethans at PHPNW14 [45:09]
• 0x0F Ways to be a Better Developer - Lorna Mitchell & Ivo Jansch at PHPNW13 [40:02]
• Your code sucks, let’s fix it - Rafael Dohms at Kings of Code Festival 2012 [47:24]
• Ansible Orchestrate your Infrastructure - Jeremy Coates at PHP Day 2014 [52:37]

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Architecture and Design

• Elastic scaling in a (micro)service oriented architecture - Bastian Hofmann at PHP UK Conference 2016 [1:02:24]
• Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing - Misko Hevery, Clean Code Talks 2008 [38:24]
• Global State & Singletons - Misko Hevery, Clean Code Talks 2008 [54:08]
• Don’t be STUPID, Grasp SOLID - Anthony Ferrara at PHPNW13 [32:30]
• Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years - Uncle Bob, Ruby Midwest 2011 [1:06:38]
• Hexagonal Architecture - Chris Fidao at Laracon 2014 [38:43]
• Unbreakable Domain Models - Mathias Verraes at PHP UK Conference 2014 [1:03:25]
• Practical Event Sourcing - Mathias Verraes at phpDay 2014 [43:38]
• Decoupling the Model from the Framework - Mathias Verraes at Laracon 2014 [53:35]
• API Design: It’s Not Rocket Surgery - Dave Ingram at PHP UK 2013 [36:40]
• The Template Is Not The View: A Brief Introduction to Action-Domain-Responder - Paul M. Jones at Nomad PHP [12:56]
• Action-Domain-Responder - Paul M. Jones [52:33]
• Designing HTTP Interfaces And RESTful Web Services - David Zuelke at SymfonyLive Paris 2012 [1:00:54]
• Web Frontend, API Backend - Lorna Mitchell at PHPNW14 [45:42]
• RESTing with Symfony 2 - Lukas Kahwe Smith at Symfony Camp [56:52]
• PHP Annotations: They Exist! - Rafael Dohms at Laracon 2014 [49:48]
• Aphorisms of API Design - Larry Garfield at Forum PHP 2013 [43:54]
• Asynchronous PHP - Christopher Pitt at PHP CRAFT SouthAfrica 2014 [47:39]
• GOTO Conference Keynote - Microservices - Martin Fowler [26:25]
• Practical Refactoring - Stefan Koopmanschap at PHPNW14 [52:27]
• Introducing Dependency Injection - Rob Allen at PHPNW13 [39:40]
• Don’t screw it up, how to build durable web APIs - Alessandro Cinelli and Alessandro Nadalin at PHP Day 2014 [45:39]
• Beyond Design Patterns - Anthony Ferrara at PHPNW14 [49:23]
• Principles of Agile Design - Uncle Bob, not-PHP specifc [29:35]
• Beyond Frameworks - Stewart Stuart Herbert at PHP UK Conferences [49:52]

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Performance and Scalability

• High Performance PHP - Anthony Ferrara at PHPNW14 [44:38]
• Caching Best Practices - Eli White at PHP UK 2014 [1:03:29]
• Scaling PHP in the Real World - Dustin Whittle at PHP CRAFT SouthAfrica 2014 [33:35]
• Scaling e-commerce with PHP - Simonas Šerlinskas at High Load Strategy 2015 [30:14]
• Processing events at scale - Mariusz Gil at High Load Strategy 2015 [29:17]
• Profiling PHP Applications - Bastian Hofmann at PHP UK 2014 [1:03:44]
• Bottleneck Analysis - Ilia Alshanetsky at PHP UK Conference 2013 [50:28]
• Scaling a High Traffic Web Application: Our Journey from Java to PHP - Dr. Aris Zakinthinos, 2012 [1:18:37]

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Security

• Web Security And You - Eli White at PHP UK Conference 2014 [1:04:23]
• Security Is Not a Feature, It’s a State of Mind - Elizabeth Smith at php[tek] 2014 [1:06:50]
• Understanding the OWASP - Gary Hockin at PHPNW14 [44:09]
• Password Storage (And Hacking) in PHP - Anthony Ferrara at PHP Benelux Conference 2013 [39:30]
• Application Logic Security - Ilia Alshanetsky at PHPBenelux 2013 [54:09]

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Testing

• PHPUnit Best Practices - Sebastian Bergmann at Atlanta PHP UG [1:01:55]
• Emergent Design with PhpSpec - Marcello Duarte at phpDay 2014 [49:34]
• Using PhpSpec to build quality into a Symfony app - Jakub Zalas at SymfonyLive London 2013 [40:53]
• Design How Your Objects Talk Through Mocking - Konstantin Kudryashov at Laracon EU 2014 [1:00:40]
• Codeception, because tests can have frameworks too! - Luka Mužinić at phpDay 2014 [25:15]
• Behat v3! Behavioral-Driven-De­velopment, Functional Tests and Selenium- Ryan Weaver at GrPhpDev 2014 [1:04:23]
• Test, Transform, Refactor - Marcello Duarte at PHP UK Conference 2014 [52:28]
• Unit Testing - Misko Hevery, Clean Code Talks [32:07]
• Don’t Look For Things - Misko Hevery, Clean Code Talks 2008 [37:56]
• Test Driven Laravel form scratch - Adam Wathan, ZendCon 2016 [26:39]

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Frameworks

• Silex Anatomy - Igor Wiedler at PHP Benelux 2013 [46:31]
• Standardization, the Symfony Way - Fabien Potencier at Laracon 2013 [1:00:05]
• The State of Laravel - Taylor Otwell at Laracon 2014 [1:00:17]
• The Tao of Laravel - Taylor Otwell at Laracon EU 2015[32:53]
• Things Laravel Made Me Believe - Jeffrey Way at Laracon EU 2015 [53:59]

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Others

• Intl Me This, Intl me That - Andrei Zmievski at PHP UK Conference 2014 [51:56]
• Lisp - Igor Wiedler at Laracon EU 2014 [56:00]
• Be Awesome in PHPStorm - Jeffrey Way ~[2:00:00] (series)
• Symfony must watch - must watch videos about Symfony

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Advanced

• Include Hack - HHVM - PHP++ - Paul Tarjan, Sara Golemon at OSCON 2014 [42:06]
• PHP Under The Hood - Davey Shafik at PHP UK 2014 [36:19]
• Abstract Machines - Igor Wiedler at Laracon 2014 [1:00:43]

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