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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Design approach where to persist autocompletion suggestions
I am currently planning a movie recommendation application. Within this context, the user can fill out a form including different information (e.g. title, description, etc.). The new entry gets then ...
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Different Modules with the same Package
I'm working on a Java project that has several modules and each of them have identical package names inside.
Module UnitTest contains a
package com.srt.liberman that contains a
Class ProcessorTest
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Do I have LocalDTOs? If yes, what is a good approach to keep encapsulation of the domain model?
LocalDTO term refers to Fowler's article.
Say I have a domain entity Person:
public class Person {
private String id;
private String name;
private int age;
}
This entity has its own ...
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ReactJS with Elasticsearch App Architecture
I want some advice regarding my architecture and hosting options.
I'm attempting to build an e-commerce site for e-books. It will use nestJS for the backend and ReactJS+Typescript for the frontend.
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Should micro services follow HTTP verbs precisely?
I'm concerned with the practices on my team regarding following REST and HTTP verbs precisely. For example, when we hit a get endpoint for a resource/resources that doesn't exist, we return a 404. ...
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Application settings in relational database
There is an application of ours which has some experimental features. We want to enable it when user wants to enable. So they will change it in the UI and we are saving those to DB.
So we added those ...
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Disk Based Java Map Implementation on top of MongoDB? [closed]
Currently, I am working on a system (a hotel automation software) that loads all the data on its startup from the MongoDB to the Java Hashmap. While saving data it updates both the HashMap and the ...
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What is the MVVM way of loading images in list in Android?
Scenario:
A very simple android app needed to be developed. It has just one screen with a list of items. Each item has a label and an icon. We fetch the item list from the server, and the server ...
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Frequent simultaneous updates to Elasticsearch documents in soft real-time
I'm evaluating Apache Flink to run several jobs in order to create/update Elasticsearch documents. Basically, the data is received through several channels, usually Kafka topics. Every channel is ...
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Efficient way to publish offline data to backend server
I am working on app that primarily used in offline condition. User generate data offline and later I schedule a periodic worker that sends the data to backend server
My publishes looks like the ...
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Need help to understand how to implement an architecture pattern on Laravel [closed]
I'm a new developer still on a beginner-amateur level studying for university.
I've worked on some test projects using Laravel framework. From a coding perspective my skills are decent for my level ...
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Dynamic Object Abilities When Saving State
I have n classes that extends from a State class, the purpose of the State class is to manage the state of the extended classes. For each class we need to save it in the database, remove it and select ...
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When to prefer PWA to Flutter? (Web App) [closed]
As all devs, we always try to deliver the best at the lowest cost.
I don't know flutter very well but theoretically, it can host a PWA application giving the flexibility to tune the most complex ...
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Clean Architecture - is it the front-end Controller responsibility to pass te Presenter in parameter to the Use Case Input port?
In a use cases–oriented architecture, such as Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture, if we do use a Presenter, should the front-end Controller (that already transmits the RequestModel to the IMyUseCase (via ...
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Cohesion and coupling possible combination in software
I know what we mean by cohesion and coupling in software. And generally the best practice is to achieve high cohesion with low coupling.
It seems to me though that they are inter-related. I.e. you ...
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Managing multiple state machines interacting with each others in ES5 Javascript
I have multiple state machines (7) managed by a "main" function. Because of system constraint this will be run on an old qtweb browser with ES5/IE11-like behaviour. So no promises etc. I'm ...
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Software design for an Angular highlight&comment tool
We're building a new feature for an online editor that the user will not edit the document, but will be able to highlight & propose edits on the document. Very similar to google documents' ...
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Application Horizontal and Vertical Scaling
I'm hoping the experienced Java developers here can share some insight about this problem we have been trying to solve for so many months.
We're currently building a Java web application that uses ...
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API Design for Error Handling
I'm working on a semi-complex web API, the high level design so far looks like this:
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How to let backend APIs communicate with each other?
I'm building a complicated frontend-backend application of which both the frontend and backend should be highly scalable and reusable. To serve these two requirements, I'm splitting the backend into ...
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Functional architecture with lots of I/O
I'm learning about "Functional Core, Imperative Shell" as espoused by Gary Bernhardt in his talk about "Boundaries". In reality, it seems like these ideas have been known for a ...
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What exactly is a multi-tenant application?
According to the definition available online, "Multi-tenancy is an architecture in which a single instance of a software application serves multiple customers". It means I have a Restaurant ...
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OOP: Concerns about extensible design based on Interfaces
Introduction to my problem
I'm trying to design a very simple video game where there are several Animals players (they all inherit from Animal):
Cat
Dog
Rabbit
There are also some performable ...
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Is combining multiple event handlers the right approach for data scraping? [closed]
I have a scraper that is scraping over logs. Some logs have data that I want to process. If certain conditions are met I want to send the extracted data to a webserver.
To separate concerns I went for ...
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Make a monolithic architecture into something modular
Currently my architecture is a monolithic block that handles a really specific duty. Now it needs to be generalized.
Right now it handles a request and all processes (1 or many) associated to it. ...
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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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Distinction between API and frontend-backend
I'm trying to write a "standard" business website. By "standard", I mean this site runs the usual HTML5, CSS and JavaScript for the front-end, a back-end (to process stuff), and ...
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Command pattern and object model integration
In a document editor application, is it better to implement the command pattern as a layer on top of the object model, or to deeply integrate it into the object model?
If commands are a layer on top, ...
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How to resolve cyclic dependencies in Event-driven systems?
Consider two services (bounded contexts by DDD):
Sales
Billing
Sales is responsible for creating orders and Billing for handling payments.
Sales tracks orders and Billing holds payments:
Sales ...
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Integration pattern: API vs events
I need to design the architecture of a CRM "platform" that integrates 5-6 legacy CRMs.
One important feature is to show customer records stored in other CRMs in one single dashboard. The ...
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Confusion in UML 2 state chart design for a CAN bus data logging sensor
I have the following requirement to design behavior of a software component for logging sensor, which writes data to SD card a:
Datalogging sensor can write data to a FAT16-formatted SD card that is ...
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What is the difference between business capability and subdomain Decomposition in microservices?
I want to understand the difference between business capability and subdomain Decomposition for mircorservices.
subdomain
The subdomain decomposition corresponds to Domain-Driven Design (DDD) ...
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CQRS and GraphQL
Context
Domain
I have a CQRS domain with requests, authorizers, handlers, response objects, entities, filters, pagination.
It only depends on:
external services (email, other APIs, etc...)
a ...
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best way to install local package into docker image
I have a python package that I wrote and I want to use it within multiple docker builds.
However, I can't just install my local package situated outside of Dockerfile folder. And I don't want to ...
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Multiplayer game architecture, should clients also maintain a Players list locally?
I am creating a multiplayer game and was wondering if only the server knows about the actual players in the game, or is this list sent to the clients too?
So for example the server knows about each ...
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SQL Foreign Key Relationships and External Data
I work for a company that wants an external system built outside of their core system. I can't share an SQL database, and can't store data in their database. So I am forced to maintain my own SQL ...
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Microservices: Is the Saga Pattern correctly applied here?
I'm trying to understand and learn how to build microservice messages the best and came up with this task for myself:
Services given:
Accounts Service
Token Service
Email Service
When a user ...
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RESTful web APIs using MVVM architecture
As the title implies, I would like to know if it is possible to create RESTful web APIs using MVVM architecture?
Or we can use just MVC pattern to create web APIs?
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What layer do third party API request/response models go in and what do you call them?
I have a RESTful API service that has three layers: Application/Domain, Infrastructure, and Presentation.
Application/Domain contain my interfaces and models. I currently have three different types of ...
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How widespread is the use of hexagonal architecture (ports and adapters architecture)? [closed]
We are discussing the adoption of hexagonal architecture (ports and adapters architecture) in our team.
Sometimes I use the rate of adoption as one rough metric about how beneficial a certain practice ...
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Minimizing queries on a database
I am working with a large dataset (~5GB) stored in a Google BigQuery database. My goal is to create a web app which works a little bit like an Excel spreadsheet where users start off by seeing the ...
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What is the correct architecture for 4 MVVM synchronized collections related to groups and filters inside a WPF application?
I have a small architectural problem with MVVM. In this question I will note Model through M and ViewModel through VM.
I have 4 collections that must be synchronized,
and the items in them must have ...
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Microservices and Modular based front end
I'm a software developer, and the kind of developer we call "front end developer". I'm working on stuff like Angular JS, Angular 2 and others.
I wanted to know how we can organize our front end code ...
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What methods are available to implement feature flags or "loadouts" for C++ projects?
I'm looking for a system to be able to configure my C++ project to compile some sections of codes and not others depending on what target hardware I'm compiling for. The area of development is ...
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Collect Data of different Modules inside a Monolith
During my first attempt of implementing a project with the "Clean Architecture" I try to implementation a job portal where I came across a problem concerning the communication between (...
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How can users be notified of changes during collaborative editing in a system like Google Docs?
"Designing Google Docs" is a popular system design interview question, and there are plenty of articles on it on the web. However, those mostly touch on merging changes, but don't explain ...
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System Design: Chat application in a distributed system context
I am currently working on a side project so I can learn new technologies and understand how the components fit together. For this project, I decided that I wanted to work on Chat Applications in the ...
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Component based architectures in JS / PHP: what indicators suggest that a UI element ought to be written as an importable component?
N.B. Several months after initially asking this question (and not coming up with any satisfactory answers) I am now learning to use HTML Custom Elements / WebComponents. It seems the same question ...
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Handle localization in microservices architecture
I'm developing a multi culture application with different microservices,
The microservices communicate with each others with integrations event, so when a new record is inserted the owner of the data ...
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Designing a Feed and Notification system in MongoDB
I'm developing a NodeJS API that will be consumed, for now, by an Android app.
I need 2 important things here: a News Feed and a Notification system. And I need it to be scalable.
I'm using ...