The Best of DZone: Jan. 28 - Feb. 4

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. Cracking The Coding Interview: 12 Things You Need To Know - by dotCore
2. 100 Best Cheat Sheets for Web Developers and Designers - by Juliarobert2002
3. Modern Java web applications with Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and AngularJS - by Dozz
4. Difference between this and super in Java - by Javin_Paul
5. 9 Best IDEs and Code Editors for JavaScript Users - by Juliarobert2002

THIS WEEK'S TOP ARTICLES

JAVALOBBY

• A New Try-with-resources Improvement in JDK 9 - by Mite Mitreski
• Open Source Doesn't Need More Support. It Needs Better Business Models - by Lukas Eder
• Are Smart Devices the Next "Wild West" for Hackers? - by Jared Jaureguy

IOT ZONE

• From the Ground Up: How I Built the Developer's Dream Keyboard - by Toptal Developers
• DISCUSS: Do You Use an Alternate Keyboard Layout? - by John Walter
• Bluemix and the Internet of Things - by Ryan Baxter

SQL ZONE

• MySQL Replication Over Slow Links/High Latency - by Moshe Kaplan
• How to Translate SQL GROUP BY and Aggregations to Java 8 - by Lukas Eder
• SpringOne2GX 2014 Replay: Cassandra, Couchbase and Spring Data in the Enterprise - by Pieter Humphrey

BIG DATA/ANALYTICS ZONE

• Why I will Always Try And Find A Ready-Built Library - by Chris Odell
• Andrews Curves - by Giuseppe Vettigli
• The Blighttown Corollary - by Edmund Kirwan

CLOUD ZONE

• 12-Factor App-Style Backing Services with Spring and Cloud Foundry - by Pieter Humphrey
• Curating Microservices APIs with Cloud Foundry - by Phil Whelan
• Deployment Pipeline in Amazon Web Services – Bootstrapping - by Paul Duvall

MOBILE ZONE

• 10 Excellent Platforms for Building Mobile Apps - by Jack Dawson
• Xamarin Forms for Windows Phone Devs – Using the MVVM Pattern - by Matteo Pagani
• Working with Robolectric and Robotium in Android Studio and Gradle - by Ben Wilcock

NOSQL ZONE

• MongoDB and Schema Validation - by Steven Lott
• Virtualizing MongoDB on Amazon EC2 and GCE: Part 2 - by Francesca Krihely
• Neo4j 2.1.6 - Cypher: FOREACH Slowness - by Mark Needham

DEVOPS ZONE

• Setting Environment Variables for Docker with Fig - by James Lorenzen
• Set Up Your First Hubot - by Lorna Mitchell
• Cloud Luminaries: Monish Sharma on DevOps and Continuous Deployment - by Phil Whelan

PERFORMANCE ZONE

• Given When Then in Java - by Richard Warburton
• Hyper-Threading: How Does It Double CPU Throughput? - by Peter Zaitsev
• A Factory of Atomic Objects - by Manik Surtani

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ZONE

• You’re Not Going to Do Microservices - by Christian Posta
• Getting API-Centric and Moving Beyond Integration - by Benjamin Ball
• Learning Netflix Governator - Part 1 - by Biju Kunjummen

AGILE ZONE

• Don't fall in love with your own code! - by Kevin Daly
• Throughput Over Backlog (an Agile Value) - by Paul Hammant
• Technical Debt: Is Management Only Getting Half the Picture? - by Michael Muller

HTML5 ZONE

• Why JavaScript Needs Types - by Victor Savkin
• Learning Angular: Access Directive Scope Variables From Directive Controllers and Vice Versa - by Juri Strumpflohner
• The Resource Server: Angular JS and Spring Security Part III - by Pieter Humphrey

ECLIPSE ZONE

• Using Java 8 to Prevent Excessively Wide Logs - by Lukas Eder
• Code Coverage for Embedded Target with Eclipse, gcc and gcov - by Erich Styger
• Data Driven Digest for January 23 - by Michael Singer