For Web applications in which the database component is the bottleneck, scalability can be provided by a third-party Database Scalability Service Provider (DSSP) that caches appli...
Amit Manjhi, Anastassia Ailamaki, Bruce M. Maggs, ...
For a while it seemed possible to pretend that all interaction between an algorithm and its environment occurs inter-step, but not anymore. Andreas Blass, Benjamin Rossman and the ...
ed Abstract Factory is yet another. When patterns cooperate, the cooperation itself can give rise to problems, contexts, trade-offs, and consequences. For instance, should a Visito...
We regularly operate under the notion that one agent assists another when the first does something for the second. However, the story behind this is much more complicated. In thi...
All modern software development processes try to help project teams conduct their work. While there are some important differences between them, the commonalities are far greater ...