On the Zen of Coding site they've posted a look forward at versions of several popular frameworks coming in 2018. Their list includes Phalcon 3, Symfony 4 and Laravel 5.x.

It’s that time of the year again, when we take a look at the world of PHP MVC frameworks. We get ready for the trends of 2018 and plan our roadmaps. Also, we’ll take a quick detour to look at some seagues in the areas beyond PHP MVC.

Web development changes year over year, if not faster. MVC has been a revolutionary paradigm for modern web apps. It helped millions of developers build awesome applications and launch exciting startups.

The post includes a Google Trends chart showing the popularity of searches for various frameworks with Laravel, Symfony and CodeIgniter taking the top three spots overall. It then starts with a high level view of some of the recent changes and trends in several of the frameworks, moving into more detail for each (and some of "the rest" including CakePHP, Zend Framework and Yii. It then discusses microservices, how they relate to MVC and the continuing importance of backend functionality.

The PHP Roundtable podcast, hosted by Sammy K Powers, has released their latest episode - Episode #30 - SOA and Microservices. In this episode Sammy is joined by guests Yitzchok Willroth, Sherif Ramadan and Samantha Geitz.

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is an architecture that shifts our focus from one big monolithic web app to smaller connected web apps. We discuss what an SOA app looks like in the real world and how it affects our codebases, deployment & DevOps.

You can watch this latest episode either through the in-page video player or over on YouTube or check out archived episodes through the "Past Episodes" section on their main page. If you enjoy the episode, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get the latest on new episodes as they're released (or to be a part of a future live broadcast)

The Laravel Podcast has released their latest episode, #26 - Illuminated Tesla Micro-Services with host Matt Stauffer and guests Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way.

In this episode, the crew discusses the recent release of Lumen, micro-services, Laravel 5.1 event broadcasting, and their favorite cars.

You can listen to this latest show either using the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or subscribing to their feed and getting the latest as they're released (including this latest episode).