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Once again a month is coming to an end and, as is becoming the habit, I've gathered a bunch of interesting tech articles that caught my eye during the last month.

First up, Matthias Noback has a 3-part series about his approach to application architecture and layered architecture. First part is a preface where he tells about his early experiences, and how he became interested in layered architecture. In the second part, he talks about layers and gives an outline of what a layered architecture is, and how he approaches the class structure in his applications. In the third and last article, he talks about ports and adapters, and he goes more into depth with how he handles communication between different layers of his applications.

Josh Justice from CodingItWrong has an interesting piece about his experiences with adding functional programming to his toolbox, on top of his existing knowledge on OO programming.

Christian Maioli writes about a project he took over. The people who had written it was really solid and experienced developers, but the project still ended up being a complete mess. This made him consider some of the barriers that can be set for developers, and some of the things that can cause terrible code to be written by perfectly sane people.

On a more curious note, Bruno Skvorc posted an article where he introduces bitwise operators, and whether they're still relevant today. Bitwise operators, in my view, is a pretty core concept and knowing more about where the technology comes from helps make it easier to understand how stuff works, so I'd definitely recommend giving it a read, whether you'll be needing bitwise operators or not.

Laracon US was held about a month ago, and now the videos are available. The page itself doesn't provide a lot of info about the talk, besides the name or company of the speaker, and the website itself is not at all helpful in that regard, but luckily Sid K has done a Laracon US 2017 recap where he provides a short description of all of the talks, to give some hints to which might be of interest.

Laracon EU just ended, and as what seems to be becoming a habit, Taylor Otwell spent some of his conference time finishing up the new Laravel release. This means that Laravel 5.5 LTS has been released.