At first glance, building a real-time application may sound like a daunting proposition, one that involves technical challenges as well as a significant financial investment, especially when you have ...

E++, a pattern-based J2EE application framework, promotes modularity, reusability, extensibility, portability, inversion of control, consistence, and scalability (MREPICS; see the sidebar below). The ...

Design patterns are used throughout the computer programming world for numerous reasons, but most resonantly, because they are an informed technique that lends itself to increased innovation and ...

These patterns are in the category of patterns that can be frequently used as building blocks of application-specific frameworks. The Strategy, Observer, and Blackboard Patterns are summarized here (a ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

Incorporate Patterns Perhaps the best way to establish the use of patterns is to tie them to modeling. The model represents the design, and the pattern represents the implementation. This approach ...

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Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jinesh Varia, Technology Evangelist, Amazon Web Services. He has been helping developers and businesses unleash the real ...

Over at Admin HPC, Dell’s Dr. Jeff Layton writes that the programming language you choose to use affects I/O patterns and performance. To illustrate, he tracks a simple write I/O pattern with C and ...