The Best of DZone: Oct. 8 - Oct. 15

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. Why DevTest Clouds Have Development and QA Teams on Cloud 9 - by c_a_dunlop
2. Getters/Setters. Evil. Period - by yegor256
3. How to Close Streams in Java - The Right Way - by Javin Paul
4. Ten subtle best practices when coding Java - by upenderc27
5. Why I love AngularJS and You Should Too - by mswatcher

JAVALOBBY

• TLA+ on Ubuntu - by Alosh Bennett
• The Best Way to Leap into Mobile Development [Part 2] - by Michael Singer
• JavaOne 2014 Observations by Proxy - by Dustin Marx

IOT ZONE

• Poll Results Are In: The World's Greatest Programmers - by Alec Noller
• IoT & Terrorism: How Connected Devices Lead to Murder - by Alec Noller
• jcabi-ssh: The Simplest Java SSH Client - by Yegor Bugayenko

SQL ZONE

• SQLite - Now 50% Faster! - by G. Ryan Spain
• OraMySQL 1.0 Alpha Released - Replication from Oracle to MariaDB and MySQL!! - by Anders Karlsson
• Percona XtraBackup 2.2.5 Now Available (Free MySQL Hot Backup Software) - by Peter Zaitsev

BIG DATA/ANALYTICS ZONE

• R: A first attempt at linear regression - by Mark Needham
• R: Filtering data frames by column type ('x' must be numeric) - by Mark Needham
• Hadoop 2.0 as Part of a Data Platform: It’s Not Just About Mapreduce! - by Kevin Daly

CLOUD ZONE

• Getting Granular With Microservices, PaaS, Twelve Factor Apps and Docker - by Phil Whelan
• How Do Cloud Developers Know When an App is "Done"? (JavaOne 2014) - by Benjamin Ball
• OpEx Savings and the Ever-Present Emergence of SDN - by Mike Bushong

MOBILE ZONE

• Creating a Node Based User Interface for iOS Using Swift - by Simon Gladman
• Getting Started Building Mobile Apps with the Ionic Framework - by Troy Miles
• Mobile Developers Should Get Accustomed with Onboarding Techniques - by Mehul Rajput

NOSQL ZONE

• Sharding Pitfalls: Part I - by Francesca Krihely
• Redis Cluster Released as a Minimum Viable Product - by Alec Noller
• A New Source for MEAN Stack Resources - by Alec Noller

DEVOPS ZONE

• Java Template Engines Revisited Part 1 - by Gunnar Hillert
• Diction in Software Development (i.e. Don't be a d1ck!) - by Brian O' Neill
• Glide In The Sea of Go Package Managers - by Matt Farina

PERFORMANCE ZONE

• Do it in Java 8: The State Monad - by Pierre-yves Saumont
• How Do You Detect and Solve Performance Issues? - by Nikita Salnikov-tarnovski
• Cross Validation for Kernel Density Estimation - by Arthur Charpentier

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ZONE

• Find Out How Developers are Integrating! - by Benjamin Ball
• Developing Services with Apache Camel - Part III: Integrating Spring 4 and Spring Boot - by Matt Raible
• Microservices and PaaS - Part IV - by Phil Whelan

AGILE ZONE

• 7 Fascinating Changes That Can Shape the Future of Programming - by Michael Georgiou
• Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks - by Tim Murphy
• Teams 101 - by Mike Cottmeyer

HTML5 ZONE

• Unit Testing Config and Run Blocks in AngularJS - by Ravi Kiran
• AngularJS - How to Code Quickly with Sublime Text Editor - by Ajitesh Kumar
• Learn PHP - How to Write A Class in PHP - by Ajitesh Kumar

ECLIPSE ZONE

• NetBeans IDE and Intellij IDEA From The Eyes of a Long Time Eclipse User - by Sivaprasadreddy Katamreddy
• Emulating Eclipse 'Run' with 'Debug' Configuration - by Erich Styger
• Exploring the SwitchYard 2.0.0.Alpha2 Quickstarts - by Markus Eisele