Equally important are the engineering practices of Extreme Programming (XP), particularly test-driven development, simplicity of design, pair programming and re-factoring (upgrading and simplifying) software code.

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The largest, and most fully developed, body of management expertise for dealing with complexity lies elsewhere, in software development with the practices known variously as Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean and Extreme Programming.

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Shalom says one of the main attractions of Cisco UCS is that it comes with an application programming interface (API) that gives the GigaSpaces Extreme Application Platform (XAP) management console direct access to the hardware.

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