What started a short list became quite a big description, more details inside the post.
Best Practices for Building a Microservice Architecture. Looks like a wide set of questions covered.
slavcodev made autoloader extension to use Upper Case namespaces in Yii2. And now if you really mind it - you can use Yii\Web\Controller instead of use yii\web\Controller.
Cordova Will Support Ubuntu Touch In Next Release.
Auto Scaling support GUI added to the AWS Management Console. IMHO largely anticipated feature, as auto scaling is the main cloud feature.
Phinx standalone migrations library for PHP project.
Great list of good PHP libs and frameworks - awesome-php