APIs are application programming interfaces. They are pieces of software that act as a bridge between one application and another application, piece of hardware or database of information, for example ...

Issues with proprietary RTOS APIs. How does the POSIX pthread API stack up against proprietary APIs? Thread creation in POSIX. However, each proprietary API impedes embedded development by requiring ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. We need more software. Logically then, we need more ...

Programming processors is becoming more complicated as more and different types of processing elements are included in the same architecture. While systems architects may revel in the number of ...

In my previous article “What Manufacturers Need to Know about Software-Defined Automation”, I discussed how Software-defined automation (SDA) is changing the nature of industrial automation, with a ...

The White House is pushing hardware and software makers to build their products using programming languages with internally-engineered guardrails that prevent hackers from peering into the inner ...

Vibe coding allows manufacturing personnel to create software using everyday speech instead of traditional programming, enabling production managers to simply say "build a monitoring dashboard for ...

Creating applications, data engineering and services across PCs, mobile devices, the cloud backbone and throughout the internet of things (IoT), the developer is the artist, the keyboard is the colour ...

Over the past few decades, various movements, paradigms, or technology surges -- whatever you want to call them -- have roiled the software world, promising either to hand a lot of programming grunt ...