The Best of DZone: July 1 - 8

If you missed anything on DZone this week, now's your chance to catch up! Below are the most popular posts of the past week - both links from DZone.com and articles from our Zones - covering Big Data and NoSQL databases, web design and mobile development, and everything inbetween:

The Best of the Links

1. Why are we interviewing Developers by asking Architect questions? - shared by deltreey
2. Bootstrap 3 Blog layout - shared by david.johnson.dave@gmail.com
3. Introducing the Java EE Squad! - shared by alecn
4. New Tools for Designers and Developers - shared by sammypanwar
5. How to Get Started With Node? - shared by piyas1977

The Best of the Zones

Javalobby

• What Makes a Good Programmer? - Henrik Warne
• If BigDecimal is the Answer, it Must Have Been a Strange Question - Peter Lawrey
• Locking and Logging - Nikita Salnikov-tarnovski

SQL Zone

• PostgreSQL & Active Record: Two SQL Injection Vulnerabilities - Alec Noller
• Hibernate and UUID identifiers - Vlad Mihalcea
• SQL Pushes Back: New Projects to Handle Multi-Dimensional Arrays - Alec Noller

Big Data/Analytics Zone

• Interactive Data Visualization - Ricky Ho
• The Origins of the Term "Big Data" - Whitney Baker
• Payloads Are Neat, but Where’s a Complete Example for Solr? - Erick Erickson

IoT Zone

• Fog Computing Might Save Operators From an IoT Data Tsunami - Maarten Ectors
• How to Associate a Single API Gateway with Multiple IP Addresses in a Multi-Homed Environment - Mark O'neill
• Snake Game on the FRDM-KL25Z with Nokia 5110 Display - Erich Styger

Cloud Zone

• OpenStack Turns 4 - The Top 4 OpenStack Articles in its Lifetime! - Benjamin Ball
• DBaaS: Solving the Cloud Business Continuity Conundrum - Lisa Schultz
• 5 Common Barriers When Introducing DevOps - Phil Whelan

Mobile Zone

• Intro to Major Android App Development Architectural Patterns in Brief - Mehul Rajput
• GapDebug, a New Mobile Debugging Tool - Raymond Camden
• RoboVM 0.0.14 Has Been Released - Alec Noller

NoSQL Zone

• The Achilles' Heel of NoSQL - Alec Noller
• Update Fixed number of MongoDB Documents - Rishav Rohit
• Couchbase .NET SDK 1.3.7 Released and 2.X News! - Don Pinto

DevOps Zone

• Stop Unit Testing Database Code - Lukas Eder
• The Four Best Refactorings - Edmund Kirwan
• Readable, Succinct, or Just Plain Short? - Trisha Gee

Performance Zone

• Mydumper [less] locking - Peter Zaitsev
• How to Deal with Slow Unit Tests with Visual Studio Test Runner - Ricci Gian Maria
• How to Triage a Busy Thread Count Alert in 14 Minutes - Jim Hirschauer

Enterprise Integration Zone

• Deploying a RabbitMQ Cluster at One Million Messages Per Second on Google Compute Engine - Benjamin Ball
• The Importance of Governance in Software Development - Mahesh Chopker
• Gradle 2.0 Release - Brings Backwards Compatibility, Memory Efficiency, and Higher Performance - Benjamin Ball

Agile Zone

• On Collective Ownership and Responsibilities - James Betteley
• Agile VS Real Life - Gil Zilberfeld
• What Does Your Product Owner Own? - Rob Galanakis

HTML5 Zone

• Dynamically Create CSS Classes With SASS - Paul Underwood
• AngularJS: Resolving data services before instantiating the Controller and Template - Sagar H Ganatra
• De-registering a WordPress Custom Taxonomy - Chris Odell

New Releases

And this week also saw the release of DZone's 199th Refcard, JavaScript Debugging:

Debugging JavaScript

By Ashutosh Sharma

JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world, but web applications are notoriously buggy. Kill the bugs and build smoothly-running apps on all JavaScript platforms. This Refcard covers:

• Common problems and useful tools
• Debugging jQuery
• Mobile app debugging
• And much more!

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