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Software design is the practice of planning software including considerations such as functional components, layers, algorithms, interfaces, integration, data and security. The output is a design specification that can be used by developers to implement software that achieves functional and non-functional requirements within a set of constraints such as a technical environment. The following are common software design terms.
Asynchronous Processing
Backward Compatibility
Bootstrapping
Bulkhead
Code Refactoring
Complexity Hiding
Data Abstraction
Design Abstraction
Design For Scale
Design To The Edges
Forward Compatibility
Future-Proofing
Keep It Small
Microservices
Modular Design
Overengineering
Principle Of Least Astonishment
Principle Of Least Privilege
Privacy By Design
Push Technology
Separation Of Concerns
Service Architecture
Smart Endpoints And Dumb Pipes
Soft Computing
Software Architecture
Software Bloat
Software Components
Systems Analysis
Systems Design
There's More Than One Way To Do It
Worse Is Better
Zero One Infinity

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