The ability to build systems out of reusable and interchangeable parts has been growing for the past 30 years. We are finally getting there with cloud. Expect big changes in the near future. It was ...

For years now, we in the software development industry have been extolling the virtues of component-based development (CBD). The benefits of object-oriented design and component-based development seem ...

Spring is perhaps the best of the component-based frameworks that emerged at the turn of the 21st century. It vastly improves the way that developers write and deliver infrastructure code in ...

Software development techniques have evolved over the past 40 years from machine code to high-level languages and tools for system modeling and configuration. New technologies and platforms such as ...

Although component-based design opens the door to many benefits, the separation that occurs in development projects can create its own challenges, writes Paul Allen. Almost all software designs ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...