Software Engineering Perspectives Articles

Eric Kleppen

Updated on July 22, 2025

A hypervisor is software that allocates a computer’s hardware resources among virtual machines (VMs), allowing multiple VMs to run simultaneously on a single physical machine. Here's how they work, their types, benefits and risks.

Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni

Updated on July 22, 2025

NLU is a subfield of natural language processing with many applications focused on understanding the nuances of human language.

Sara A. Metwalli

Updated on July 22, 2025

Superposition is a quantum principle that describes a quantum system’s ability to be in multiple states at the same time until it is measured.

Sunny Betz

Updated on July 21, 2025

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical type of AI capable of performing any intellectual task a human can, with the ability to reason, learn and adapt across unfamiliar domains. It blurs the line between human and machine intelligence.

Kyle Brill

Updated on July 21, 2025

Cloud bursting is a cloud configuration method that shifts excess workloads from private infrastructure to the public cloud when computing demand spikes. It enables organizations to scale resources dynamically without maintaining excess in-house capacity.

Artem Oppermann

Updated on July 21, 2025

A unit test is a functional test of an application’s smallest possible source code unit. The unit test aims to test the individual components of the software independent of other parts of the code.

Bill Douglas

Updated on July 18, 2025

Many product roll outs fail not because of product flaws, but because of hidden debt that comes from environment and deployment mismatches. Here’s how to plan for it.

Manuel Silverio

Updated on July 17, 2025

Kotlin is a general-purpose, open-source programming language designed to interoperate fully between Android and the JVM (Java virtual machine).

Dr. Derek Austin

Updated on July 17, 2025

The question mark operator is used in JavaScript as an alternative to an if statement, especially where a value is assigned based on a conditional.

Derek Ashmore

Updated on July 16, 2025

AIOps is the wave of the future, but getting there will involve clearing some remaining hurdles. Our expert offers some guidelines.