“The Book of Secret Knowledge” is a collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more.  It is intended for everyone and anyone – especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security Researchers.
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Jeff Geerling shares the best way to get the full PHP version string. I’d think that “php –version” externally or “echo PHP_VERSION” internally would do the job. However, that’s not exactly right, as there are a number of inconsistencies on different platforms. The best option seems to be the combination of the PHP_MAJOR_VERSION, PHP_MINOR_VERSION, and PHP_RELEASE_VERSION constants.
$ php -r 'echo join(".",[PHP_MAJOR_VERSION,PHP_MINOR_VERSION,PHP_RELEASE_VERSION]);'
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Shlomi Noach, GitHub’s Senior Infrastructure Engineer, shares some details on both the current and future high availability setup of MySQL databases at GitHub.
This is probably way too far out for most people using MySQL for their web applications. But it does highlight the technical complexity of running high load web applications, and how some of the issues can be solved or worked around.
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RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager, written in Goland. It sounds like an excellent replacement for the built-in PHP server, and even more than that – it’s production-ready. And it works on Windows too.
RoadRunner is an open source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.
RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.
CMS Scanner is a security tool from Open Security crew that you can host locally and use for security scans of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and vBulletin websites. I think that having an automated tool like that is way better and more productive than a thousand blog posts on how to secure your installation of a particular software.