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The promise of calm computing,1 a concept introduced by Mark Weiser more than 20 years ago, has been mostly realized today.

Today, continuous integration CI is state of the art for agile software practices.

Early evidence on the gains and pains of microservices has started to emerge in academic publications and industry forums.

Modeling languages and frameworks have been the key technology for advancing model-driven engineering MDE methods and tools.

At first, the audit program left me puzzled. It felt both unnecessary and downright wrong.

Cesare Pautasso: Let's open the discussion on the business level.

In August 2019, we organized the second Vienna Software Seminar VSS with the topic "DevOps and Microservice APIs."1 Embracing the positive…

Today, computer science graduates start companies to create market-dominating, Internet-scale software solutions for hundreds of millions of users.

Opportunistic design, an approach in which people develop new software systems by routinely reusing and combining components that were not designed to be used…

Companies are facing turbulent times. Markets are changing or being disrupted, customers expect individualized products, and the demand for products seem to…

This article defines a taxonomy of software architecture options, derived from industry projects, for Internet of Things IoT devices, from the most limited…

Bertrand Meyer runs agile methods and practices through his personal friend-or-foe test.

The web, seen as a graph of linked resources shared between microservices, can serve as an integration style.

Traceability allows tracking products through all stages of a supply chain, which is crucial for product quality control.

The authors look back at their journey of implementing, rolling out, and evolving a collaboration tool to support evidence-based healthcare and…

A look at the IEEE Software history website illustrates the practical value of historical data and offers a glimpse into the magazine's…

Solution architecture is a team effort balancing various forces.

Service-oriented architecture SOA and microservices insiders Mike Amundsen, James Lewis, and Nicolai Josuttis share their experiences…

Service-oriented architecture SOA and microservices insiders Mike Amundsen, James Lewis, and Nicolai Josuttis share their experiences…

Documenting the time dimension part of your architecture might look like extra work.

Testing large-scale process integration solutions is complex and cumbersome.

Mobile apps increasingly constitute complete ecosystems to support businesses such as farming.

Following certain best practices for visual communication can help bridge the gap between IT architects and business stakeholders.

A software retrofit can address problems of business-critical systems that are no longer maintainable.

Department editors Olaf Zimmermann and Cesare Pautasso interview Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, authors of Enterprise Integration…

The Connected-Car Prototyping Platform provides both a back end for applications interacting with connected cars and…

Unexpected responses to a study questionnaire led to the realization that the context in which software is being used is extremely important.

Software processes and design quality are inextricably intertwined.

Over its 10-year history, the annual Software Engineering Institute SEI Architecture Technology User Network SATURN conference has…

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