As programmers, we often talk about how it's better for components of an application to be isolated from each other. We recognize that, with our present programming tools, some level of coupling is ...

Follow these best practices to eliminate God objects and design classes that are loosely coupled, cohesive, and easy to maintain In object-oriented programming (OOP), so-called God objects are an anti ...

Hard wiring processes should be a sin, let's do away with it once and for all. Since the dawn of computing, applications have been rigidly architected, and therefore tightly dependant on one another.

So, now that we know the basic differences between a tightly and loosely coupled architecture, as well as the advantages, perhaps it's a good idea to break down loose coupling in to a few basic ...

There's a lot of talk about how the application server is dead. But the trend seems to be quite the opposite when one looks at the management tool suites cloud-native developers are putting together.

Loose coupling is one of those suddenly popular great ideas that have actually been around for a long time. With loose coupling come two significant benefits long sought by business and IT managers: ...

In my previous post, I discussed the virtues of loosely coupling, rising it to the level of an IT commandment. One reader, Richard Veryard, responded in his own Weblog, however, that maybe loose ...