Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do—imperative programming—to describing what they should be—declarative programming.

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

I’ve created a Java application that contrasts the imperative, object-oriented and declarative, functional programming approaches to writing code. Study the code below and then I’ll point out ...

To apply the configuration, you use the command kubectl apply at the command prompt as you would for an imperative command, but that’s where the similarity ends. Let’s look at some examples of ...