In good API design, software components behave much like mechanical components. They perform a particular job behind a well-understood interface. You can deal with the component as a single entity.

Software bill of materials executive order. The SolarWinds hack in particular raised alarms in the U.S. government, as many federal agencies had deployed the compromised component.

Software mapping is the practice of diagramming and visualizing the intricacies and dependencies within a software system. It gives a bird''s eye view of the software''s structure, helping developers ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto Executive Summary. The phrase software-defined networking (SDN) was coined when it was necessary to distinguish the concept from the hardware-based variety.

How software companies can ensure customers that they care about every request. ... The answer is meaningful customer care, which is one of the components of predictive software engineering (PSE).

The modular nature of modern software also means that when a vulnerability is spotted in a widely used software library — like log4j — that vulnerability may exist across a huge number of programs ...