Challenge students to move beyond memorizing design patterns and decide which design approach makes sense for a particular software problem. Across 5 realistic scenarios, students examine the problem, ...

There is an ironic dichotomy in today's software stacks: While many things are programmed to be operationally deterministic and predictable, the inevitably unstable and unpredictable nature of ...

It is possible to achieve five-nines reliability with everyday commercial-quality hardware and software. The key is the way in which these components are combined. Our society has come to expect ...

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 ...