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Networking at the Tactical and Humanitarian Edge
This blog post details networking challenges in edge environments that stem from uncertainty and solutions to overcome them.
• By Marc Novakouski, Jacob Ratzlaff
In Edge Computing
Tactics and Patterns for Software Robustness
Robustness, along with other quality attributes, such as security and safety, is a key contributor to our trust that a system will perform in a reliable manner.
• By Rick Kazman
In Software Architecture
Containerization at the Edge
Containerization is a technology that addresses many of the challenges of operating software systems at the edge.
• By Kevin Pitstick, Jacob Ratzlaff
In Edge Computing
A Model-Based Tool to Assist in the Design of Safety-Critical Systems
The design of critical systems—those used in aircraft, medical devices, etc.—is becoming increasingly challenging as they increase in sophistication and complexity.
• By Sam Procter
In Software Architecture
Two Categories of Architecture Patterns for Deployability
This post, excerpted from the fourth edition of Software Architecture in Practice, discusses deployability and describes two categories of associated architecture patterns.
• By Rick Kazman
In Software Architecture
Six Acquisition Pathways for Large-Scale, Complex Systems
How to map technical reference frameworks (TRFs) to the pathways that compose the DoD’s Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF)
• By Nickolas Guertin, Douglas C. Schmidt
In Software Architecture
Toward Technical Reference Frameworks to Support Large-Scale Systems of Systems
Strategies for creating architectures for large-scale, complex, and interoperable systems of systems that are composed of functions covering a broad range of requirements.
• By Douglas C. Schmidt, Nickolas Guertin
In Software Architecture
Systems Engineering and Software Engineering: Collaborating for the Smart Systems of the Future
Convergence between systems engineering and software engineering is forging new practices for engineering the smart systems of the future.
• By Paul D. Nielsen
In Cyber-Physical Systems
Integrating Safety and Security Engineering for Mission-Critical Systems
Critical systems must be safe from harm and secure, but safety and security practices have evolved in isolation. The SEI is improving coordination between safety and security engineering.
• By Sam Procter, Sholom Cohen
In Software Architecture
Automating System Security with AADL: 11 Rules for Ensuring a Security Model
This post presents an approach for modeling and validating confidentiality based on the Bell–LaPadula security model using the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL). It also presents 11 analysis rules …
• By Aaron Greenhouse
In Software Architecture
