Declarative programming languages have higher levels of expressionand abstraction than most other programming paradigms. Not only does declarative programming reduce source code — it also prevents ...

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’ve ...

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

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

Jenkins provides two different syntaxes for pipelines. When DevOps engineers write a Jenkins pipeline, they can choose between declarative and scripted. The differences between the two are both subtle ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

Programs traditionally consist of a series of statements describing how to solve a problem. Declarative programs instead describe what problem to solve and what a solution would look like. The program ...