A picture is worth a thousand words, and so it is with software design. Visual modeling gives a development team a bird's-eye view of a system and its component interactions without getting caught up ...

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 ...

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 ...