Modularization makes programming possible. Throughout the history of computing, a parade of organizational devices—the high-level language, the subroutine, the object—has allowed us to write ...

Most applications have a number of cross-cutting concerns, such as logging, exception handling, transaction handling and security. These items do not deal with the core business logic of an ...

Functional requirements for mission critical applications often include software service level agreements (SLAs), which specify the maximum allowable latency for specific operations. Such requirements ...