Breaking down the design of a program into individual components (modules) that can be programmed and tested independently. It is a requirement for effective development and maintenance of large ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how ...

To solve many problems all you need to do is write a program – a simple list of instructions of what to do. Sounds easy, but when you are confronted by a difficult problem – play a game of chess say – ...

This article provides an overview of proposals, specifications, and platforms aimed at making Java technology more modular in Java 9. I’ll discuss factors contributing to the need for a more modular ...

Systemd's positive and negative features have been discussed at length; one of the first positives I personally noticed was seen from my perspective as an upstream package maintainer. As the ...

What is structured programming (modular programming)? Structured programming, or modular programming, is a programming paradigm that facilitates the creation of programs with readable code and ...