This book provides a gentle, software engineering oriented introduction to category theory. Assuming only a minimum of mathematical preparation, this book explores the use of categorical constructions from the point of view of the methods and techniques that have been proposed for the engineering of complex software systems: object-oriented...

"This book is of immense value. It should save you months of trials and errors, lots of undeserved hassle, and many costly mistakes that could potentially jeopardize the whole endeavor. It will become an important reference on the shelf of the software architect."—From the Foreword by Philippe Kruchten,...

The software industry has evolved to tackle new approaches aligned with the Internet, object-orientation, distributed components and new platforms. However, the majority of the large information systems running today in many organizations were developed many years ago with technologies that are now obsolete. These old systems, known as legacy...

• Define solutions that can connect existing systems and newer cloud-based solutions to thousands of thousands of edge devices and...

Web Forms—the page and control framework at the heart of ASP.NET—makes it easier to develop dynamic Web applications. But you can go...

• Use in-process or local storage to avoid the network

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This book enables the reader to implement service-centric data center solutions through...