Skills to be mastered by PHP advanced programmers

A lot of work for a few years PHP developers will have such a confusion, PHP development, no outside of the "Delete and change to check the interface", really?

In fact, developers, in addition to their own as a PHP programmer, should pay more attention to things outside of PHP, positioning themselves in a skilled use of PHP to build systems engineers.

I think advanced PHP engineers can develop in several directions:
1. Depth direction
For an engineer to develop at a higher level, several technical capabilities must be strengthened:

• Design ability: Know how to design organization code by layering, object-oriented, design pattern, etc.

• Coding ability: Familiar with PHP syntax features, know how to use one or two lines of code to replace the junior developer hundred lines of code.
  

• Engineering Ability: Learn how to quickly build a project, learn how to build a readable, scalable project, learn how to avoid burying to posterity, learn how to cooperate with people to maintain the project, learn how to ensure the quality of the project, learn how to weigh the pros and cons, learn how to compromise in the face of difficulties.
  

• Abstract Ability: Novice developers usually wait until the logical repetition of the abstract encapsulation (even fear of drag progress or lazy to give up), and the advanced developers usually start to write the logic for later reuse, and know that the beginning of more time to pay for the thought of design will ultimately be rewarded for reuse. A lot of development frameworks are step-by-step abstractions/pits/optimizations.
  

• Architecture capabilities: How a business system divides modules, how modules communicate with each other, how technology is chosen for each module, how system details can be circumvented, and so on.

• Ability to optimize: Learn how to evaluate, analyze, and improve system performance. Many optimization approaches, product function optimization, business logic optimization, basic technology optimization, operating system, the optimization of the underlying hardware and so on.
  

2. Breadth direction
PHP development is largely inseparable from operating systems, storage, caching, networking, webserver, and so on, so this is also a must-have skill. Once a business system goes wrong, it must be able to fix it quickly (not necessarily by itself, but to find out which person is responsible to resolve it).

For example, if you store MySQL, advanced developers will learn to use indexes, improve query performance with sub-tables, understand load balancing and disaster preparedness to improve performance (although DBAs work, but understand the troubleshooting to help with problems)

such as caching, advanced developers know how to effectively and maximize the use of caching systems to improve application performance.

such as HTTP, the novice developers often only understand the HTTP network request only a two package, senior developers will go to the network seven layer model, will delve into the various aspects of the HTTP request (DNS, three handshake, etc.)

such as Web front-end, learn how to rely on browser caching, CDN cache, compressed code, merging files and so on to improve front-end performance, learning how to conduct front-end security attack.


3, soft quality
Knowledge of team management, project management, communication skills and so on. (Free to expand)

The same idea applies to developers in other languages.

Skills to be mastered by PHP advanced programmers