As a product update; The “Autonomous Distributed Database”, otherwise known as simply ADD has been renamed to Serengeti. The Serengeti is a vast ecosystem in east-central Africa.… Read More »Product Update: ADD becomes Serengeti
What are Real-time Systems? If you look up the term “real-time” in a dictionary, it will tell you that it is the actual time during… Read More »Timing Issues in Real-time systems
Software Engineering or the Software Development Process is broken down into the following phases. Requirements Design Implementation Verification Maintenance Communication can often breakdown in the… Read More »Communications and The Software Development Process
Software development has really come a long way over the past few decades. Programming used to always be about doing things in a very procedural… Read More »Structured and Object-Oriented Programming
What is a legacy system? A legacy system is a computing system that has been around for a very long period of time, tends to… Read More »Converting from Legacy to Client-Server or Distributed Systems
What is Conceptual Architectural Views? Architectural views are abstractions, or simplifications, of the entire design, in which important characteristics are made more visible by leaving… Read More »Conceptual Architectural Views, with a focus on the Development View
During the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) the development team will come to realise that parts of any application have already been created before and… Read More »Assessing Reusable Parts in a Software Architecture
All software systems can be grouped in either a 2-tier or a 3-tier formation. The former is essentially where all clients contain application and business… Read More »An Introduction to 2-Tier and 3-Tier Client-Server Systems
What is Agile in Software Engineering? Agile approaches help teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences and empirical feedback. (AgileMethodology.org, 2008) Advantages of… Read More »The Pros and Cons of Agile in Software Development
In the Oxford Dictionary, the term “outsourcing” is simply defined as obtaining goods or services by contract from an outside supplier (OxfordDictionaries.com, n.d.). When it… Read More »Mitigating Risks with Software Development Outsourcing
Introduction to Software Development Processes Gabry defines the Software Development Methodology to be a set of related activities that lead to the production of the… Read More »Software development processes
Introduction to Software Reuse Software reuse is the process of creating software from antecedent and extant components. There are a range of approaches that can… Read More »Approaches to software reuse
Waterfall and Agile are by far the most commonly used software development processes, however, within them, there are many different styles of software development used… Read More »Agile as a Software Development Process
A client-server architecture/system is one where the server maintains all models of the backend datasets and business logic around taking and providing information to fulfill… Read More »An Introduction to Client-Server Systems
Auditing an organisation?s information systems is a vital part of operating a business at any decent scale. Particularly from a security standpoint (Mohamed ElBorno, n.d.).… Read More »Auditing Organisational Information Systems – Security
The original conception of copyright in 1710 (Craig Joyce, n.d.) was that it usually covers only the expression of a particular idea and not the… Read More »Copyright Compensation in the Internet Age
The Therac-25 was a computerised medical technology radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982. Between 1985 and 1987, it… Read More »The Therac-25 Case Study – What Actually Happened?