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Modern software systems contain within them a mind-boggling level of complexity. As software engineers, we make this complexity manageable through techniques like decomposition, information hiding, and abstraction. We endeavor to break our systems up into components that interact over well-defined interfaces. By doing this, the surface exposed to individual software engineers is dramatically reduced: no … Continue reading The demon of the gaps →

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