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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Best pattern/practice to execute a multi-step code generation process
I am working on a project that generates an API with the possibility of doing CRUD operations based on a high-level description of the resources that the user would like to have in an application. In ...
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Azure - Event Grid Topic and Service Bus
Our system currently needs to expose multiple events to other systems like Azure Power Apps, Logic Apps, Azure DevOps or any other Custom app. We are mostly an Azure shop so were looking at Event Grid,...
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Using NoSQL (vs SQL) Database for Metadata in a highly scalable System like Facebook
If you are required to build a highly scalable system like Facebook would you prefer to use NoSQL database or a SQL database for the metadata.
I would use a SQL database for metadata i.e User Info, ...
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gRPC streaming proxy | Architectural decision
I'm building microservices app that supposed to launch tests in separate containers. I also want to stream log messages to frontend and store them in database and I don't know what solution would be ...
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What is the best way of sorting a list based on the relevance from another service?
I have a product listing service, and it will give a list of products for the logged-in users, and the list is paginated, with ten products per page. I implemented this pagination using MySQL LIMIT ...
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QR order - how to prevent customers from placing an order when they're not on premise [closed]
From my understanding, a QR code is just a static link which get opened up when I scan the code with my phone's camera.
Once opened, a customer can keep the browser tab even after he leaves the ...
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How do I stop constant doubts on my code when programming? [closed]
I often find myself ovewhelmed by questions, I'll explain my self in a practical example detailing how I think about my tasks.
I'm often critized on how I approach the problems, and the general ...
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Architecture solution for scalable crawling
I have the following requirements:
a list of queries (rather long list ~ 100K - 1M items or even more) that I need to perform in a certain period of time and the execution time must be predictable. ...
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Guideline choosing between reporting solution or application front-end
I am working in the data department of a middle-sized logistics company who is shifting from an 'old-school' on-premise BI data warehouse to a more 'modern' cloud-based data lake approach.
Another ...
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Where should helper classes/methods for transforming business data for the View be located
I have inherited a badly architected and organised ASP.NET MVC application, which is an online booking system for healthcare providers. It seems to have been designed with very few object oriented ...
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Are there real examples of using reflection design pattern to achieve partial deployment? [closed]
This site mentions such thing: http://software-pattern.org/Reflection. It says that it is possible to replace part of the application behaviour dynamically. Does it mean that we can achieve partial ...
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When to Push or Publish
I'm in the process of redesigning our entire process control system (a daunting task, really!), and want to make the right decisions to how each system in the ecosystem communicates with each other.
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Synchronous vs Asynchronous Event Driven Architecture
I have been searching extensively about the difference between synchronous and asynchronous patterns and how this relates to event driven architecture. On its face it is quite obvious, I simply ...
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Can I use a static Service class if I'm not using DI?
I had to create an ASMX web service for my company. Even though ASMX is old, I tired to do everything according to modern standards. So I have a UI layer (web service layer), business layer (service ...
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What considerations need to be made for choosing DBs in the OLAP portion of a scaling software system?
I'm trying to learn about the different types of database architectures and how their differences influence which one or combination of should be used in software system.
I understand that OLTPs ...
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Navigating a many-to-many relationship and determining price from a bulk API Call
I think it will help to give a little context, not only about the DB architecture but the actual product. I am building a business where we will be selling pallets of liquidated merchandise. Think a ...
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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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Real time chat at scale
I have been looking at different solutions for large scale chatting solutions. I feel as if I understand 90 % of it but am turning to this forum to tie the knot.
I imagine running a bunch of message ...
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The advice I've found is to use LTS tools for work, instead can start on a new version if I know the next LTS will come out before project completion? [closed]
I've had this idea because I've recently had to upgrade a large enterprise project (due to security vulnerabilities) that was completed and not touched for years before I joined, and both the backend (...
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Maintainably converting flowchart ideas to an architecture
My team is communicating proposals for the interaction of several processes as a flowchart. I've been drafting a codebase architecture we can use as a starting point. There are two ways intended ...
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Best way to calculate profit/loss with historical data
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I need to build a profit/loss graph for a mobile app. The api from which I can get the historical price data only allows me to retrieve 1 item at a time. If the user has 500 items that would ...
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How can microservice based applications use Service Mesh and Event Driven Architecture together?
I came across some applications where they claim they use Event Driven Architecture to communicate between microservices (Kafka as event broker) and also a Service Mesh (LinkerD)
There are a couple of ...
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Design a non replayable endpoint for a service
I am trying something out in Springboot and stuck with a weird issue where I want to send some data from my frontend (react app) to backend (SpringBoot) and make that request non replay able by users (...
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How much access should a developer have to a Staging database [closed]
We want our developers to be able to diagnose production issues in staging. For the sake of this, we are planning to make an exact replica of production into staging. We are thinking however, if we ...
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In vertical slice architecture, how can I deal with entities/repositories that are used in multiple slices?
I'm trying to group the components of my system by funtionality. This is the analysis class diagram of my system model.
A service class that involves a Post entity might necessarily interact ...
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How to define vertical slice in a system whose horizontal slices are defined by Java modules?
For the project I'm working on I was thinking to create a Java Module for each layer of my system:
servlet-presentation defines the implementation of the presentation layer. It is composed by Java ...
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Data Ingest Architecture Advice
I have a requirement where we need to collect N different events and store them for analysis. I am having trouble coming up with a general architecture for this.
FINAL REQUIREMENTS
The end goal of the ...
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Design of a modular application
I'm developing an application (Java) in a modular architecture. I have two approaches in mind and I'm not sure which one will be "better code" in case of maintenance and conventions.
I have ...
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Architecture for SaaS that can run in my company's cloud or in clients' networks [closed]
I am working on a portable SaaS web application that has these requirements:
The application can run as a cloud service hosted by my organization.
Clients can run the application in their own on-...
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"Protect" published events using auth, Event driven architecture
I have a system that publishes events to a message broker, lets call that system A.
I also have system B and system C that subscribes to the "events"/messages.
My payload/message looks like ...
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Class Constructor that Takes Two Arguments of the Same Interface - But Order Matters
I'm getting ready to release a feature to production tomorrow & feel I have misdesigned said feature. I'll try to explain my scenario clearly. I'm looking for alternative design suggestions to ...
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What is the name of component handling the HTTP requests from client in more complex infrastractures that just "client-server"? [closed]
Although the splitting of web application/ web sites to front-end (client) and back-end (server) is popular, this binary division is frequently pretty far from actual complexity of architecture:
The ...
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Why is the 4+1 architecture model view named "4+1"?
Why are use-cases counted separately from the other views in the 4+1 architecture?
How are use-cases different from others views?
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Is it okay for development infrastructure to depend on/communicate with staging infrastructure?
We have a few apps that communicate with each other. I work on the core backend project X. X needs to make requests to a cloud native project Y in order to process some information.
Now, locally I don'...
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What is the best practice about microservice architecture for consuming many stored procedures in the same database?
I have to build a micro service for my company, the backend is an Oracle database, but the micro service must consume five (5) stored procedures that already exist in the database (as shown in the ...
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Methods to model mutations performed by functions
Given a set of interfaces, objects implementing those interfaces, and functions that use those objects, what methods exist to model mutations performed by the functions?
For example, given:
A Pet ...
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How to split out shared authorization logic across spring microservices
Currently working on a project where we have multiple services that all need to consume the same authorization service when their endpoints are hit. Right now we have the authorization boilerplate ...
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Modularized authentication providers for Spring application
At our company, we have multiple products which share authentication settings. In particular, we use Spring LDAP, but since our use case and configuration is more complex, we would like to use ...
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Microservice decomposition into reusable microservice from a set of monolithic applications
So for my Masterthesis i have to decompose a set of monolithic industrial applications into microservices. The aim is to decompose the monoliths in to services that are as much reusable as possible. I ...
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I can't really tell the difference between Hexagonal and Layered Architecture
So, in the hexagonal architecture layer, the application layer has incoming ports (usecases) that's called from incoming adapters, implemented by services, that uses outcoming ports that is ...
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Microservices: Non-query calls from an API Gateway in the API Composition fashion
In a microservice architecture, it is common for an API Gateway to perform API Composition (providing CQRS is not used) for queries to multiple services to combine data to make it ready for a front ...
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Replacing service implementation based on environment variables
I have previously asked a question on this forum linked here. In short, I wanted to not call 3rd party APIs when developing locally.
Based on the wonderful answers received I have opted for the ...
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Circular references with generic classes
I'm trying to create an interaction system for a game I'm developing with Unity and C# and I've been struggling with it for a while now. It consists of interactors and interactables. The idea is that ...
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When updating a model on a RESTful API, should there be an update endpoint per field? or one endpoint for the model?
For a RESTful API, consider a model schema as follows:
MyCoolObject {
field_a
field_b
field_c
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Is it better to create one update endpoint to update one or many fields on the model? Or create ...
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How to handle storing of arbitrary data in an application enablement platform
I'm working on an AEP in the IoT space, where we've created a few domain-specific entities to allow users to model their data. Each entity has both a type and instances of that entity. These are:
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Instability metric vs Dependency Injection
Below is an excerpt of Fundamentals of Software Architecture, page 65, which I am reading:
The instability metric determines the volatility of a code base. A
code base that exhibits high degrees of ...
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Mapping to and from domain entities
I am in the process of implementing onion / clean architecture, and would like to understand better how and when to map to my domain entities.
So if we take a specific example where we have a Post and ...
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Modelling multi-device manufacture machinery software
We are building a multi-device (different vendors, different types) manufacture machinery where these device work together orchestrated by our software and operated by a human being to create various ...
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How to solve an issue when a decorator needs variables from the base class?
I have a service class that does some magic. I want to introduce a new type of functionality - raise an event. I am absolutely sure that decorator pattern is great for this scenario. The problem is ...
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Is it possible to add a unique identifier to the shared Data via bittorrent (P2P)?
I know that P2P sharing is copying the exact content between the peers. Everyone has the same data.
Let's assume the content is very important and I don't want anyone to distribute outside the group. ...
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