DZone Community Awards 2023

Dear DZone Community, 

This year has seen a lot of changes for the DZone team, and we’re excited to end the year on a high note with a ton of potential heading into 2024 and beyond. 

Throughout the year and throughout the changes, you, our community, have been right there with us and continued to support us and deliver incredible, industry-leading content making DZone one of the best places for developers to gather, learn, share, and grow. 

Thank you!

It would be impossible for us to recognize all the great stuff that happened this year, but we wanted to take the time to recognize a few people who really went above and beyond for our community this year. 

So, without further ado, here are the 2023 DZone Community Award winners!

Most Viewed Article of 2023

It’s clear that the author of our Most Viewed Article for 2023 has made a splash here at DZone, as her second ever article on DZone has racked up more than 108,000 page views in less than a month! She has more than 15 years of experience building software and is currently a Software Engineer for Meta. We are so thrilled for Maria Rogova and her article Demystifying Distributed Systems: A Beginner’s Guide. We look forward to reading many more fantastic articles in the future! Congratulations!

Most Liked Article of 2023

We had a ton of great content posted to DZone this year, but one article in particular seemed to resonate with our readers more than any other. Building Robust Real-Time Data Pipelines With Python, Apache Kafka, and the Cloud by Dmitrii Mitiaev was the Most Liked Article on DZone in 2023! Congratulations Dmitrii and we are excited to see more of your insightful, engaging articles!

Best Original Article of 2023

What makes DZone stand out as such a valuable resource to developers around the world is our industry-leading, expert content and our community. And because our content and community are the best in the world (there may be some slight bias there), it’s almost impossible to choose one we could call the Best Original Article of 2023. However, one article did stand out to us a bit more than the others this year, and that was Distributed Tracing: A Full Guide by Lahiru Hewawasam! Congratulations Lahiru! Thank you so much for your contributions this year and we look forward to even more great content in 2024!

Most Viewed Writer of 2023

The winner of our Most Viewed Writer shouldn’t come as a surprise for anyone who’s been around DZone for a while. He is one of our best and most regular contributors to the site, is a Core member and has racked up nearly 30 million pageviews since joining DZone in 2014! He’s also a very active contributor for our Refcards and Trend Reports and has over 20 years of experience in software development. Please join me in congratulating John Vester!

Rising Star: DZone Contributor

Our Rising Star DZone Contributor this year joined our community in April, and since then has posted 11 articles and garnered nearly 50,000 page views! She is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Meta and obtained a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University. She clearly has a very promising future ahead of her! Congratulations to Yifei Wang! Thank you for your contributions this year and we look forward to many more insightful articles in the future!

Most Published Core Contributor

We have a lot of contributors that post a lot of great articles on DZone, but our Most Published Core Contributor for 2023 takes the cake when it comes to regularly posting outstanding content. I mean, the man has published more than 1,500 articles in just 8 years! Not only does he write a lot, his articles are always knowledgeable, insightful, and engaging to read. We are so grateful for all he does for DZone. Thank you and congratulations to Tom Smith! 

Editor’s Pick DZone Core Contributor

Our Editor’s Pick for DZone Core Contributor of the year is also a name you’ve heard before. She is a Core member and has contributed so much amazing content for the website, our Trend Reports, and Refcards, and she is always happy and willing to jump in and help us with any projects or requests we might send her way. She is a thought leader in her field and an accomplished writer and speaker, but we just tend to call her Super Woman. Congratulations Kellyn Gorman! We are so incredibly grateful for you!

Rising Star: Refcards

Our Rising Star for Refcards winner is the Directory of Technical Advocacy at Silk and has over two decades of experience in relational database technology with a unique, unmatched knowledge of databases, particularly Oracle on Azure. She combines traditional database knowledge with an insight into modern cloud infrastructure, enabling her to bridge the gap between past and present technologies. After contributing to our Database Systems Trend Reports for the past two years, she wrote her first DZone Refcard this year: Core Postgre SQL. Congratulations Kellyn Gorman and thank you so much for your continued contributions to the DZone community!

Editor’s Pick: Refcards

Our Editor’s Pick for Refcards this year has been contributing to DZone both on the site and in our Trend Reports and Refcards since 2017. He is a Principal Product Security Engineer at Microsoft and has more than 17 years of experience in software development specializing in security. Congratulations Apostolos Giannakidis! Apostolos wrote two Refcards for us this year: Threat Modeling: Core Practices to Securing Applications and Identity and Access Management: Core Practices to Secure Digital Identities. Thank you for all your great contributions Apostolos!

Rising Star: Trend Reports

The 2023 DZone Rising Star for Trend Reports only joined the DZone community in February, but has jumped in head first and already contributed a ton of great content to DZone. She is a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at Visa where she is a senior member of the corporate governance team. She contributed to three of this year’s Trend Reports: A Practical Guide for Container Security for the Containers Trend Report, Securing the Cluster for our Kubernetes in the Enterprise Trend Report, and Modern DevSecOps for our Enterprise Security Trend Report!  Please join me in congratulating Akanksha Pathak! Thank you for being such a great contributor to the DZone community! 

Editor’s Pick: Trend Reports

Our DZone Editor’s Pick for Trend Reports this year is an accomplished AI expert and thought leader and has been named as one of India’s Top 10 Data Scientists by Analytics India Magazine. So it’s no surprise that he would write for our Automated Testing Trend Report this year. You can check out his article on Revolutionizing Software Testing as well as his other Trend Report contribution this year, Enhancing Observability With AI/ML, in our Observability and Application Performance Trend Report now on our website. Congratulations Dr. Tuhin Cattopadhyay! In addition to his Trend Report contributions, he’s also written a Refcard and several other articles for DZone. Thank you for sharing your expertise with our community!

Editor’s Pick: DZone Contributor

This year’s Editor’s Pick for DZone Contributor has published 21 articles, racked up over 200,000 page views, contributed to two Trend Reports, and a Refcard in less than 3 years since joining DZone! He has over 15 years of experience developing and leading high-performance engineering teams with expertise in Big Data, Databases, Cloud Architecture, and more. Congratulations to Miguel Garcia! Thank you so much for your contributions to the DZone community!

Community Pick: DZone Contributor of the Year

As the name might suggest, the Community Pick for DZone Contributor of the Year is selected by you, our community members. Personally, this is my favorite award as it gives you all a chance to have a voice in selecting the community member that most impacted you in 2023. And if you’ve been around in the past couple years, then our 2023 Community Pick winner makes a lot of sense. Congratulations once again to  Dr. Tuhin Chattopadhyay! Dr. Chattopahyay is not only a knowledge leader in his field and a fantastic writer and speaker, he is also an all-around wonderful human being. Thank you Dr. Chattopahyay for all you do for our community!

Here at DZone, our community is who we are. We would not exist or be where we are today without all the incredible contributions from everyone in our community so sincerely…

Thank you. 

We appreciate everything you did for us in 2023, and we look forward to an incredible 2024!

Congrats again to all the winners!

Happy Holidays,

The DZone Team