IT'S CERTAINLY TRUE that building distributed systems is a difficult business. This is due to the inherent and accidental complexity of both the design and implementation of networked software ...

Structured software is based on a plan that considers the specific requirements of a system and translates them into loosely coupled components. In collaborative software development, development ...

Whenever an activity occurs in repetition, such as programming, patterns emerge and can be documented. The benefits of documenting and using software design patterns are well established, as are some ...

Software engineering continues to evolve as developers face increasingly complex systems and user requirements. Among the foundational elements that guide elegant solutions to recurring problems, ...

[PROGRAMMERS REPORT, November 5, 2002] -- Our favorite technical books are often reference books. That is, there are some books that you don't read straight through, put down and then proceed with ...

Since we began working on the first book in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series in the mid-nineties, the discussion about what software architecture specifically entails has repeatedly ...

If there is one thing in software engineering that is a given, it’s that engineers need continuous education. While graduating college might have made us think that we were “done,” the truth is that ...

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