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.

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?

Declarative and imperative configuration commands One of the interesting features of the Kubernetes container orchestration technology is that it’s state-based. Under Kubernetes, once you define how ...

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 ...

Computer scientists contrast imperative programming languages with declarative ones: A clause in an imperative programming language gives an instruction for what the machine should do next ...

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 ...