Questions tagged [architectural-patterns]
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Understanding the data flow in Spring REST layered architecture
I am new to Spring as well as layered architecture. So am a bit confused as how data flows among the different layers.
What so far I have understood is:
Layers:
Controller (which accepts requests)
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MVC vs Layered vs Client-Server
On this book (Software Architecture, 10th Edition by Ian Sommerville, ISBN: 9781292096131), the following architectural patterns are presented (Chapter 6, 6.3, p175):
MVC
Layered
Client-server
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Where should I implement Ports with Hexagonal Architecture?
I have been doing some research on the Hexagonal/Ports & Adapters architecture. For the most part, it makes a lot of sense. My initial understanding was that "Driver Ports" were to be implemented ...
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Correct event managment architecture in web application
My team and I are working on a large web application, and I've noticed that we're working in a way which I believe is an incorrect usage of flux (probably from lack of understanding).
We're using ...
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How to separate data layer from business layer?
My current .NET project looks like below:
Solution (.sln)
--BusinessProject A (.proj)
--BusinessProject B (.proj)
--DataLayer (.proj)
--A separate project calling ExternalService 1 (folder)
--A ...
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Validation and Authorisation in Domain Models and Carrying that through a Service Layer to MVC
With the current project I'm working on there's an architecture question being asked which feels like it might just be asking too much.
System Basics:
HTML/JS MVVM
Asp.net MVC
Web Services
EF
SQL ...
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How to model Business Objects depending on use cases?
I'm having trouble modeling the Business Objects of my application.
In my domain I have substantially a list of bills of orders, and for every bill I have the pallet that contains the materials to ...
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How to have only one consumer handle a long running task at a given point?
I need to design an application which makes requests to an external API. External API has a hierarchy of entities: User which contains ListOfItemss which contain Items. I need to get data on all Items ...
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Digital Signature for PDF files through Web Application
We are developing a Web Application for manage dental clinics.
The app can generate PDF files through the PHP backend (for example invoices, quotes etc.).
Each of those PDF file needs to be digitally ...
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Javascript module design patterns
Partly for use in my own projects, and partly for fun while being stuck at home I'm attempt to build yet another "block" based editor.
So far I've been using simple objects, starting with a global ...
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Do MV* architectural patterns apply not only to OO languages but also functional languages?
I am learning about MV* architectural patterns, thanks to the help from several answers here. I learned that they are used for designing the architectures of user interactive applications.
I also ...
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Extensible / Plugin Architecture in Python - overwriting methods deep in the inheritance tree?
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I'm developing a test-framework in python for end-to-end tests for a large ERP application. The AUT (application under test = ERP system) is structured in modules and provides a lot ...
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Modelling network and persistent entity representations
I have an app where I need to synchronize some entities (simply download latest versions of entities from server to client). Entity has bunch of text properties and bunch of resource links (referenced ...
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Pattern or solution for using classes with different interface the same way
What I would like to achieve is to use classes (now two, later more) with different interface the same way, so I would like avoid using decisions based on the interface on upper levels for instance, I ...
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Wrapping a legacy C++ codebase with a C API
I have inherited a large C++ codebase implementing various Windows desktop applications, services and libraries using Windows MFC. There are no automated tests. We need to decouple the UI and retain a ...
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Retry long-running message processing in case of processing node failure
I have two types of microservices: Data Collector and Data Processor. They communicate with each other via Azure Service Bus Queue. Data Collector collects data from different sources and, once done, ...
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Orchestrator or coordination pattern in Azure?
I am designing a background web job in Azure that, given a list of users it retrieves from a database, makes calls to a separate messaging microservice (for each record) that will end up sending N ...
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Structure and placement of a exporting module
Its an infrastructure monitoring application.
We have a spring boot (2.x) based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with multiple modules in our project and the center point is a REST services module ...
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Consumer triggered entity data agregation
I am currently using RabbitMQ to aggregate the output of various data sources.
Functionally the process is the following:
The user enters a product name.
The request is sent to the different sources ...
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What should be the code architecture to download and cache offline data (Images/Videos/3d Models)?
I'm developing an application which has a 3D room. Each room is a 3d model and can contain media boards. each media board contains image(s) as slides or video. I have created following Data Models :
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Batch Syncing between two system and one system reverted its state to older DB state. Syncing Problem
We have a system which generates db records and a ever increasing id named archive_id ( bigint in postgres).
sample table: record_table ------ archive_id bigint,info varchar
Another system ...
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Running Multiple distinct Services on a single server process
I am working on a java server, which has a bunch of seemingly distinct "services".
A lot of which are just effectively classes. From a software architecture point of view I wonder what the opinion is ...
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What is the best apporach to a customizable theming in SPA Architecture
I'm interested in developing single-paged application and there are few question I need to get clarified before moving on. One of them is customizable theming implementations. As for traditional web ...
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Can MVP be implemented in Android with Activities and Fragments as Presenters and Custom Views?
Lately my team has started considering the implementation of MVP pattern in some of our applications.
We followed the several guides and tutorials out there, basically ending up with regular ...
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Universal Modules GUI Design
PROBLEM: GUI built above database entities usually consist of creator window (pane etc.), editor window, maybe grid or other view window. To represent an entity for user it usually requires building ...
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Data Store Design for NxN Data Aggregation
I am trying to come up with a theoretical solution to an NxN problem for data aggregation and storage. As an example I have a huge amount of data that comes in via a stream. The stream sends the data ...
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Choosing the right design pattern/architecture for a scenario
I have a situation, in which I would like your opinion about the best approach that I should take.
Let's consider 10 classes (obj001, obj002 etc.) all which represent some business entities, and are ...
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Web page accessing local system via localhost HTTP API
I have seen this pattern that allows web pages to interact with local system resources through a HTTP interface and I have a couple questions about it:
What is this pattern called?
What ...
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Microservice Architecture For Blog Posts With Media Content
I was reading the guide about microservices from https://microservices.io/ (still very new to this architecture) and had a question about a design approach.
Let's say i have a blog applications with ...
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Applying Domain Driven Design to applications with both reading and writing heavy logics
We are planning a complete rewrite of a very complex project (10+ years, ~15 different application modules) and we would like to adhere to DDD and CQRS as much as possible but we are struggling to fit ...
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How big should database adapters/gateways be?
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When you build an Adapter that connects your application and the database,
How big should you make this adapter? Should it contain all possible queries that could be made to the DB?
Do you ...
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How to model an event-driven system for replays
Let's say I have a system to which I can upload documents via an API. There are three services:
the UploadService - responsible for providing a HTTP endpoint
the StorageService - responsible for ...
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When scaling from a single server to elastic computing (many concurrent servers) how do timed tasks scale up?
We have been in the process of scaling up my companies infrastructure, we have graduated from single servers and moved everything off to scalable AWS Ec2 servers that auto scale, there is one little ...
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What is the best way to share data between two loosely coupled interfaces?
I have two interfaces: Camera and Computer. So far, each interfaces have multiple implementations in my codebase and they are loosely coupled (no implementations of Camera depends on any ...
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Realtime report generation and downloads
We host a dashboard where users can view different reports, each powered by a templated SQL query. The users have an option to "download" those reports as CSV.
Currently the above use case ...
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API-based Architecture Pattern
After studying some basics about n-layer architecture, I face to a new proyect where my database is an ERP and the way to connect with it is via API calls. I can perform queries to obtain data but the ...
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What is considered as best practice for defining common types in golang?
We have set of common types (mostly structs, scalars, string IDs) that are used across different packages in a project written in Golang. Currently we define them in a package named "models" ...
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Design pattern for intercepting requests to an API (Rule Engine)
I want to use a rule engine to centralize business rules. My rules require information not typically owned by systems that call the rules engine.
I don't want to complicate these systems (System A and ...
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Using a bulletin board to support Separation Of Concerns
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I'm working on an embedded system with many small functional modules. The business logic within each module is made as simple as possible, but those modules generally need to gather bits of ...
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How to reuse business logics and resources of different mvc projects from new project
This new project is kind of fast walk through of previous controllers's jobs but some extra steps in between, sort of working as a wizard.
The thing is, it seems make good sense to create this wizard ...
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Architecture to check for user properties in bulk?
We run an infrastructure in our organization, where a list of configs are provided and we check which config a given user satisfies.
For eg:
config_1 = {"a": 1, "b": 2, "c": 3}
config_2 = {"a": 1, "b"...
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Can one Application Service call the Application Service from another Bounded Context?
First bounded context: Requisites
Here we store user's organization requisites (Title, Logo, ID numbers, Bank requisites)
Second bounded context: Bank Integration
Here we have all use cases that ...
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Should unused user-uploaded resources (e.g. images) be deleted from storage?
An example web application X allows its clients to upload various resources, e.g. images. These uploaded resources can also be removed by the user at a later time.
My question is this: what are the ...
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What could be a good scalable alternative to polling data and then looping over a list of objects for triggering some action on those?
So I have some naive implementation for the following problem:
We have a list of objects with action methods that have to be trigger at some value of interest.
This value is polled (or is streamed) ...
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What layer should resolve pre-existing Hibernate entities?
Imagine an application that consumes an external data stream and creates objects of this type:
@Entity
public class Event {
@OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL)
private EventInfo info;
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Data Integration Design Using Microsoft SSIS
I am working on a data integration project, where I need to extract data from oracle source and load it to XML file. The requirement is to get the list of customers and foreach customer create an xml ...
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Writing Event Process architecture for multiple event handler interfaces
I am working on Java program which will listen multiple kind of events from multiple sources and store information to multiple sinks.
Each interface will have its own source to listen and own sink ...
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What is the best way for sharing common functionality or reusing existing code in micro-service architecture?
I just curious to know that what is the best practice or way for sharing common functionality or code among the micro-services. For example, there is one micro-service which is responsible for the ...
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Custom service layer logic vs Custom DB query
I am trying to confirm best practice around architecture I am working with.
Frontend <-> API gateway <-> Service layer (Rest API) <-> DB
I have an incoming request which is asking for huge ...
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where to put business constraints
We have a 3-tier architecture: Web, Business, Models using the MVC pattern. Models are Code-First using EF6. Currently we access the dbContext directly in our Controllers to query and save changes. We ...
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