Questions tagged [architecture]
The high-level design and description of a software system. Architectural design distills away details of implementations, algorithms, and data representation to concentrate on the interaction of "black box" components.
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How to discover discovery service
We are designing an architecture of a high availability distibuted system and we are considering server side vs client side service discovery. There is one problem, I need to solve - how is it ...
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How to notify all instances behind load balancer
I would like to make an request to all instances of my application. Flow of request is as follow( F5 load balancer -> reverse proxy - apache server -> my application) I do not want to make public ip ...
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Architecting basket in high scale distributed application
I'm designing an e-commerce application. Main flow is pretty straightforward: customer add items to basket, checkouts the basket (place an order) and waits for delivery.
There are following ...
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What is the difference between Logical View and Scenarios View in the 4+1 architectural view model?
According to the Wikipedia page:
Logical view: The logical view is concerned with the functionality that the system provides to end-users.
Scenarios view: The description of an architecture is ...
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Difference Between MVC and MVC + 3 Layered Architecture?
I haven't been able to find a definitive answer online, so I'm hoping that someone with experience can help answer this.
Many MVC tutorials I find online end up using the MVC architectural pattern as ...
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ASP.NET Web API - what is the design pattern?
In Visual Studio, ASP.NET MVC project template is designed for MVC pattern, but what about ASP.NET Web API project template?
I know that we can create API from MVC project, also we can build MVC app ...
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Loose Coupling Presenter to View in MVP
We work in a Java shop here and our web application uses an implementation of the MVP architectural pattern. Our manager comes from a .NET world, where he has been exposed to the MVVM design pattern. ...
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What is the best way to organize the folders and files in my web project? [closed]
I've been doing technical studies in web design for a while. I have developed several web pages, however, I have not published any.
This year I plan to publish my first website. I would like to know ...
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How does Stackoverflow comment system work
When someone comments on my question/answer/comment I will see the notification from the inbox, and it also shows under my response tab. Later when the comment is edited, the comment shown under the ...
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ASP.NET Web API N-Tier Architecture considerations
my API is divided to some layers:
Presentation layer (PL) - API
Bussiness Logic layer (BLL)
Data access layer (DAL)
database (DB)
PL is the controllers, that have some methods and every method ...
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How does a push-based(write fanout) feed system handle unsubscribe logic, message erasure and new following user's message
I am curious about these three questions when building a push-based(write fanout) feed system:
How does it handle the unsubscribe logic?
To me, it seems to me that we have two choices: delete or ...
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Custom .NET apps and clustering
So for a clustered environment - how would this work with your apps?
What about your own custom .NET apps? Would there be a special way to develop them? I know that you could create a simple Hello ...
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How to play sounds optimally in the browser?
I have a new site that allows you to play sounds of letters on click. Each letter produces a separate sound. I went from roughly 500kb for .wav files to around 30kb for each sound file. That's a lot ...
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How to create lots of web projects that are copies of each other (90%) but also have some unique elements (10%) in each? And that also support updates
I have a web project in. Say, it's in Rails, or any other well web framework. And I plan to be creating copies of it and running them all. Let's say, it's a blog. Each blog will be deployed on its own ...
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Is web application routing Enterprise or Application Business Rules from the viewpoint of Clean Architecture?
From the one side, customer can order "I need products list on /products and conversion statistics on /statistics/conversion". In this case, we need to obey in and write something like:
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Best way to handle lazy models with mapstruct and spring transnational scope
In a typical Java Spring Web APP:
we have the following layers:
Model [DB Models]
Repositories [where you have queries to DB]
Services [Business service where you have the @Transactional annotation]
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Advice for Intermediate/Advanced C++ Developer
First and foremost I must say that I am in debt to whoever uses his time to provide helpful advice to this post. I think we have a wonderful community and it is thanks to people like you reading this.
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How does Robert Martin's “Clean Architecture” deal with Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)?
According to Robert C. Martin's "Clean Architecture" you should try to structure your system in such a way as to separate low-level concerns from high-level domain concepts.
Following this ...
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Re-architecting CPU intensive Node application to handle multiple users
A few years ago, I wrote an application that allowed users to upload a file (it's a very specific file type) to a server. It then sends instructions to the server on how to visualise the data, and the ...
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How does a database implementor migrate their database engine to a new data structure?
I am working on implementing a database of sorts and am stuck wanting to make it perfect from the get go because I realize I don't know how to migrate the database engine from one data structure to ...
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How to anticipate a software future where ARM (potentially) replaces x86 in server and PCs? [closed]
With the introduction of Apple M1 processor, ARM has stood up to be a capable competitor and an alternative to x86 processors. We can foresee a future where ARM captures considerable market share of ...
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Should I use ROA or SOA for a distributed application and how could I implement REST If using ROA
For my final year project I'm looking to build a distributed version of a popular benchmarking client (this has already been done using various methods involving some form of existing frameworks), I ...
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Visitor pattern, Extensible visitor for custom implementation [migrated]
I'm writing my own expression tree system, just for fun, but I have a few doubts about my code.
My goal here is to create an abstract layer of expressions, and allow different "languages" to ...
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What is the Difference between Reactive Extensions and Message Queue?
I am trying to understand the difference between Reactive Extensions and Message Queue? Are they competing frameworks? Can they be used in conjuction? Started programming, and trying to understand ...
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Cyclic dependencies in microservices
Just wanted to know if cyclic dependency is something that one should avoid in microservice design.
For example, let's say we have a simple web store that sells fruit.
It could have:
Account Service -...
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What are “User Process Components”?
This article about application architecture design mentions "User Process Components" as part of the presentation layer.
User process components. Your user process components help ...
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How to store blog post in database - React & GraphQL
I am building travel blog using React as frontend Javascript framework along with GraphQL. I am doing this project by myself as a pilot test and I am currently in a phase of translating photoshop ...
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Syncing data from a monolith to a micro-service
we have a monolith that basically reaches close to a 100k IoT devices/routers and tries to gather some information about them.
As you can imagine, this can take close up to 40 hours for the process ...
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How to split my product into multiple variants
I have a product which is a combination of mobile apps and webapi . I am working web API.
The webapi part created earlier and it build with layered model. Even thought this does not have a business ...
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RuntimeException or DomainException or LogicException in loader function?
Assume I have module of classes:
EntityLoader loads some entity by id.
EntityValidator checks preconditions, input data before saving changes.
EntityUpdater saves changes.
EntityLoader has method ...
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Gracefully handling failures in sequence of requests
I am designing architecture for service like pastebin.com. I plan to store user data on S3 storage and metadata with my own server. So whenever a user requests for some paste creation there are two ...
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Relationship between the concepts “Product Architecture” “Software Architecture” and “Software Stack”
I am doing a report for Uni on an application developed by the team I am in. We have to deliver-among other things- a Technical Solution Document along with the application. One of the sections of ...
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Microservice should be an independent software unit - Up to which level?
I have read several times that a Microservice should be an independent software unit.
But what does that mean exactly and is it really achievable for each business case? Does that mean that I can run ...
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Alternative architecture for multi-instance, client-to-client message relay/broker
Research leads me to believe the most common architecture for a multi-instance (horizontally-scaling) message relay service (the typical example being an instant messenger/chat service) is to ...
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Should I introduce tools even if I might not need them right now
I recently read two articles regarding two different approaches for managing the underlying technologies of a system. The first one was by engineers of reddit, explaining how they gradually extended ...
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DDD / Onion architecture in JavaScript
One reason I like .NET is because the 'solutions' and 'projects' lends themselves to good architecture.
Good architecture makes it easy to follow the happy path of Domain-Driven Design.
I've fallen ...
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How to approach to ES/CQRS in serverless cloud?
Let's say I want to use CosmosDB for Event Store, where have single collection for all events. Currently it is not horizontally partitioned, but it is a possibility for future.
Now, I need to ...
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How can all the hosted websites on a server, use shared codes?
I'm hosting more than 10 websites on a single server.
These websites have their very own cPanel which includes the database and the codes.
The code is the same in all of the websites, and when a ...
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Which is a good way of separating and organizing layers and subdomains code, one that highlights and facilitates a clean architecture?
As I understand, when following the Low Coupling High Cohesion Principle, I should keep together the code that is related to same theme, splitting the code into modules/submodules by its "domain&...
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Distinction between API and frontend-backend
I'm trying to write a "standard" business web site. By "standard", I mean this site runs the usual HTML5, CSS and Javascript for the front-end, a back-end (to process stuff), and runs MySQL for the ...
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Architecture/algorithm for unusual recommendation system
There are thousands (or tens of thousands) of possible movie titles.
New user enters my website and selects hundreds of titles that he likes.
The only single goal of my website is to output the list ...
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Separation of retrieving data and business objects between DAL and BLL Layers
I did some research before posting this question. Among other questions or post, one of those is provided below. I could not get a clear mind how to determine..
Business Objects within a Data Access ...
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Write data to SQL Server directly from BizTalk or use external service?
An external source will be sending us XML data that BizTalk will pick up and transform into an internal schema. We need this data to be loaded into a SQL Server database as we're going to expose some ...
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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 should presenters return in Clean Architecture?
In Clean Architecture, a use-case calls a presenter, based on the agreed output object. When the presenter is called, it returns a ViewModel used by the view. That is fine until you have more than two ...
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How to make the controller framework independent in Clean Architecture?
Recently, I've been studying Clean Architecture and I have some doubts. I want to make a REST API that adheres to this architecture. To do that, I define my entities, use-cases, etc. For each endpoint,...
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Resource that has different state based on input parameters
Let's say I have a REST api endpoint that is getting a resource called a "purchasable" (an item that a user can purchase). Here is an example of what this might look like.
Endpoint: GET /...
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Why not use SQL instead of GraphQL?
Recently I learned about GraphQL which claims to be superior to RESTful. However, I started wondering why don't we simply put SQL statements into an HTTP GET request.
For example, in GraphQL I would ...
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Help defining architecture - async messaging; web app as portal in web page
I don't know if this is a legitimate architecture that I've been playing with. It consists of nodejs servers for services and to create web app front ends. And it is using async messaging (Redis) to ...
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Should the controller pass data to a view in the MVC pattern?
I work with ASP.NET MVC (and other web-based MVC implementations) quite often, but this is something I've never been sure of: Should controller and view communicate?
Of course the controller should ...
