A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we ...

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.

The development industry has largely moved toward a declarative programming model for CI/CD pipelines. Both GitHub Actions and GitLab CI support only YAML pipelines, which are very similar to ...

The biggest challenge with implementing DevOps is the assumption that somebody is available with programming skills to automate the management of IT infrastructure. If an IT organization has anybody ...

PHP may have been around for a while, but it’s still an important Web development tool.Building on a declarative model of programming, PHP extends the familiar HTML syntax with additional ...

This brief paper argues for a radically different approach, based on the representation of the model structure, relationships and equations in a declarative format (e.g. XML).

"Declarative pipelines hide the complexity of modern data engineering under a simple, intuitive programming model. As an engineering manager, I love the fact that my engineers can focus on what ...