The Best of DZone: Feb. 4 - Feb. 11

THIS WEEK'S TOP LINKS

Check out the most popular links shared on DZone from the past week. Be sure to share the best developer links from across the web at DZone.com.

1. Continuous Testing and Test Acceleration: Where to Start...and How to Know When You're Done - by Cynthia Dunlop
2. 16 Best Online Resources to Learn Programming Easily - by Juliarobert2002
3. Big Data: What is HBASE? - by acoin
4. Lean, Mean Java Web Development - 2015 Style - by hello2dave
5. 10 More Reasons Why Linux is Better Than Any Other OS - by esrikis

THIS WEEK'S TOP ARTICLES

JAVALOBBY

• INTRODUCING! Code Golf: Print the Date - by John Walter
• Groovy Goodness: Getting All But the Last Element in a Collection with Init Method - by Hubert Klein Ikkink
• The State of Java - by Trisha Gee

IOT ZONE

• Raspberry Pi 2 Released - by John Walter
• Mark Little about Enterprise and IoT - by Markus Eisele
• The Future of IoT - by Maarten Ectors

SQL ZONE

• MySQL's Index Hints Can Improve Query Performance, But Only If You Avoid the 'Gotchas' - by Gen Furukawa
• Writing MySQL Purge Jobs in Ruby with the Cleansweep Gem - by Fredric Paul
• The MySQL Query Cache: How It Works, Plus Workload Impacts (Good and Bad) - by Peter Zaitsev

BIG DATA/ANALYTICS ZONE

• How the JavaScript Heatmap Implementation Works - by Antonio Santiago
• Big Data: What is HBASE? - by Daniel Egan
• Geek Reading February 6, 2015 - by Robert Diana

CLOUD ZONE

• An Introduction to PaaS on OpenStack - by Phil Whelan
• The Cloudcast #178 - DevOps Defined Networking with Socketplane - by Brian Gracely
• Modern IT Monitoring: API-Based and the Human Touch - by Ofir Nachmani

MOBILE ZONE

• Getting Started with iOS Development Using Eclipse and Java - by Shay Shmeltzer
• Oracle Mobile Application Framework Getting Started Demo - by Marcelo Jabali
• Android: Unit Testing Apps with Couchbase, Robolectric and Dagger - by Ben Wilcock

NOSQL ZONE

• Announcing MongoDB 3.0 - by Francesca Krihely
• Introducing the Database Selection Matrix - by Francesca Krihely
• Excerpts From the RavenDB Performance Team Report: Etags and Evil Code, Part II - by Ayende Rahien

DEVOPS ZONE

• Automated Testing Shows a Respect for Employees - by Rob Galanakis
• SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Groovy for System Administrators - by Pieter Humphrey
• Introducing the Latest DZone Guide to Continuous Delivery - by Benjamin Ball

PERFORMANCE ZONE

• Top 10 Easy Performance Optimisations in Java - by Lukas Eder
• The Real Cost of Downtime, The Real Potential of DevOps - by Steven Wastie
• How to Define Performance Requirements? - by Nikita Salnikov-tarnovski

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ZONE

• Microservices: Five Architectural Constraints - by Jim Bugwadia
• Easy Tricks for JPA, Spring and Hibernate - by Nishant Chandra
• Spring Request-Level Memoization - by Vlad Mihalcea

AGILE ZONE

• Throughput Over Backlog (an Agile Value) - by Paul Hammant
• Advice for Going Solo - by John Cook
• Technical Debt Metaphors Get It so Wrong - by Rob Galanakis

HTML5 ZONE

• The Art of AngularJS in 2015 - by Matt Raible
• Getting Started with AngularJS - by Matt Raible
• Change Sortable Columns In WordPress - by Paul Underwood

ECLIPSE ZONE

• Java Hot Class Reloading with RelProxy in Development Mode, a GWT Example - by Jose Maria Arranz
• How To: Scrolling Crosstab with Fixed Row Headers - by Michael Singer
• 12 Questions for Providers of Embedded Analytics Tools [Infographic] - by Michael Singer