The php[architect] magazine has released their latest issue for December 2017 - Talking Code. Articles in this latest issue include:

• "Chatbots and PHP" by Katy Ereira
• "Artificial Intelligence (AI) - The Future of Internet Services" by Kesha Williams
• "Command and Query API Design in Magento 2" by Michiel Rook
• "Learning Machine Learning, Part Three: Data Wrangling" by Edward Barnard

The usual columns are all returning including the Education Station, he Dev Lead Trenches and Security Corner. You can check out this issue and the rest of the articles on the issue's page on the php[archtect] website. If you'd like a sample of what's inside, be sure to check out this free article from (Eric Mann* covering one of the latest security-related features added in PHP 7.2: native libsodium support.