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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Digging deeper into differentiation and benefits of micro-frontends, module federation, and 'live' application assembly architectures
Our team is exploring microfrontends as part of the suite of applications we currently offer our clients. A few questions come to mind which I'd appreciate thoughts on:
I understand how a 'shell' or '...
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Serving hundreds of domains from one application with HTTPS
I am building an application which will provide users with custom pages served under the subdomain within my application domain.
What I want to do as next step is to allow users to create CNAME which ...
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How can we implement an incremental naming system?
Just like how Mac or Windows gives incremental names to new folders, how can we implement such a system in a database?
Let's say I have currently 3 folders (default names) i.e., "untitled folder&...
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How to handle db query between two or more microservices with different databases?
Suppose we have multiple services which each of them uses its own db(SQL or NoSQL, could be physically distributed). How can handle queries which require data from two or more microservices?
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Logical grouping of properties vs class structure
The architecture i'm working with is that we have three services:
Main service that takes care of the business logic. It exposes an internal API to proxy service in XML protocol.
Proxy service that ...
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What is the correct architecture for communication between an HTTP server and a WS server on the same machine running in separate processes?
I have a Node.js HTTP REST API server and a Node.js WS server. I separated them into 2 entrypoints so that they can be more easily debugged and run separated from each other, but now I need the REST ...
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Database architecture for Email Marketing which can be used as a micro service
I am working on a very challenging email marketing database design and i am not able to figure out the best way to build the database, where functionality can be split so it can be used as a ...
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Are common design patterns applicable for microservice architectures?
As part of my master's thesis, I am currently working on a framework for building microservice-based service systems. Based on my research, I am able to define important design criteria that the ...
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Architecture for alerts system based on API - would this be too slow a design?
(Hi I’m new here - I believe this question suits here from the guide saying “ architecture, and design” - however if there is a better place, just pop me a comment. As there’s no actual code it doesn’...
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How does Matplotlib / other GUIs work to draw the individual pixels?
So I wondered how matplotlib (or equivalents) makes graphics appear on your screen.
I found that matplotlib does not do the drawing itself; instead it is built on TKinter, which is built on TK, which ...
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What do the Trapezoid-shaped boxes mean in this schematic diagram of RISC architectures (from Wirth's compiler construction)
I am currently browsing through Niklas Wirth's compiler construction book. He presents a simple RISC architecture as a target for code generation using the following diagram. The symbols/shapes used ...
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Assumptions versus no assumptions - where do you draw the line? [closed]
In our line of work as software engineers, we can write code that assumes various things outside its scope or architectural boundary, in order to save performance, time, and on defensive coding ...
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REST Service-to-Service communication contract classes
Given two systems A and B that communicate with a Request-Response protocol (REST services).
Where should the entities representing the request and response bodies reside?
N.B.: The entities above ...
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Archival-quality future-proof pseudo-CPU architecture
Suppose we maintain a massive electronic library of texts/photos/videos etc., and want to ensure that these files are readable indefinitely long in the future. So we:
Keep snapshots of versions of ...
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Mobile authentication approaches, JWTs and refresh tokens
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I'm developing togther with my dev team a mobile app in a client-server architecture, since there will be a webclient too, allowing some users (admins) to perform certain operations from the ...
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How to model a simple chat system as a microservice architecture?
In an attempt to learn how microservices work, I'm going to attempt to convert a simple monolithic chat server to a microservice architecture.
I've created a simple chat system as a monolith, modelled ...
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What's the difference between and Event Processor and a Microservice
In Event Driven Design, there is the concept of the Event Processor which is the node within the event chain that applies business logic to/from an event message. Usually a single responsibility.
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Alternative to using enum
The project I'm working on has a code dependency on a TeamNames enum. The problem with this is that the project needs to be recompiled and redeployed on any addition/deletion in TeamNames. How can I ...
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Validations and throwing exceptions in DDD?
I have a question regarding validations and exceptions in DDD.
I have a ValueObject say, PasswordText which takes a string argument in it's constructor. Checks if the string matches the password ...
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Duplication of data vs loose coupling
Currently, I'm working with a health management application, let's call it application A. It's a partly prebuilt generic application that we are extending on. The main entities are journals, events, ...
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Form Builder architecture (Multiple Tenants)
I am currently working on a multi tenant form-builder architecture. The high level flow of the application is where a user will answer a bunch of form based questions and at the end of questionnaire, ...
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How to test integration with third party libraries on the backend from the frontend?
What is the standard or recommended approach or architecture for testing integration to third party libraries?
More specifically, for this post I am only concerned with one of the possible ways of ...
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How to set up 2 versions of Single Page Application and serve the right version to users based on the backend setting?
We develop a Single Page Application (SPA) for enterprise clients. When we deploy a new version of our SPA we would like to upgrade a subset of clients whilst leaving the other clients on the more ...
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Low-level Design of a Bike Rental Service
I'm working on the low-level design of a bike rental service and I was wondering if the solution is good or where it can be improved.
Context & Requirements
I used an exercise I found online which ...
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How harm it can be to combine an update/create/delete REST request?
Currently I have being request do implement an endpoint that would be responsible to update/create/delete sub-items for a single entity. The entities in case are students in a given classroom and the ...
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Use of API Gateway for on-premises applications doing external calls
Our team had a discussion about the use of an API Gateway when our on-premises applications have to do a external HTTP call.
The scenario would be very simple:
On-premises application --> API ...
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How to manage this microservices dependency?
I have a bookshelf microservice that manages user books' status (pending, read, reading now...). It exposes some REST endpoints to set book status:
PUT /users/{userId}/bookshelf/pending/{bookId}
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How to implement "suggested changes" functionality to the dataset of a web application
I got an application that takes either CSV or YAML which describes a graph, parses it to extract info, puts it into a database.
There is also a frontent which allows users to browse different ...
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Who to manage AAA , gateway or business service
In a debate with our solution architect, there were 2 proposed solutions to handle (illustrated below on the figure)
In the first, the API Gateway manages Authentication, Authorization and Accounting ...
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Contemporary Design and One-to-One Relationships: code-first vs data-base first approaches
After reading, Does it ever make sense NOT to condense one to one relationships?, I wanted to take the question further with regards to contemporary design of entities, front-end code and controllers. ...
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Strategy & Architectural Decision: Customer data migration between two companies
Asked this originally here, and didn't receive any answer so far, hence posting here too.
Let's say company A acquired company B in a certain region. This means, A and B were competitors in that ...
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Web api talking to a separate process
I've been working on an application (let's called it AppX) that will be launched on RaspberryPi. It's being written in C++.
As it will be a part of my smart home solution, I would like to add a ...
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Two services, one database - how do I keep clean separation between the two?
I have a service, call it serviceA, which has a relational database. This service is old and bloated, modifications to the code are very difficult. But I also can't get rid of it, it's the heart of ...
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Multiple application sharing same database functionalities
We have two application A and B that I'm refactoring. They both use the same database. Those application are written using the Symfony framework and Doctrine as database layer.
I've moved some of the ...
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Clean Architecture, good approaches to avoid hard-coding the creation of entities on the Use Case
I have an Use Case that has an UseCaseInput (which is a parameter object of the use case) and an UseCaseOutput which is the output object, the UseCaseInput has lots of parameters in which will be used ...
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Micro Frontend architecture and different teams
I often get the argument that, if only a single team is working on the UI development, then the UI should not be developed as a set of Micro Frontends, with each one representing a subdomain.
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What is the proper way to communicate with Android Service from Jetpack Composables?
I'm working on an Android application where a Manager/Controller class encapsulates basically the core functionality of the program. It has some StateFlows defined and also a few public methods to ...
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How does cuRAND use a GPU to accelerate random number generation? Don't those require a state?
My understanding is that every PRNG or QRNG requires a state to prevent the next item in its sequence from being too predictable; which is sensible, as they're all running on deterministic hardware.
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DDD Modeling - Entity with generic and specific data
Suppose I am buying coffee. There are several types of coffee (A1, A2, A3), but sometimes I want to make a reference to all types of coffee (like if I had a coffee "grouped"). Considering ...
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Distributed transaction reconciliation architecture
There is a minor difference between Saga pattern https://microservices.io/patterns/data/saga.html and my use case below. Saga pattern is about distributed transaction when an event is happening vs my ...
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Designing for many third-party REST API integrations
Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I've come across a need for this pattern a few times lately, and I would love to get some opinions on options for how to handle it.
Say I have an app ...
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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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If Entities, in the Clean Architecture, are enterprise wide rules how different applications consume them?
In this post, Uncle Bob writes:
Entities encapsulate Enterprise wide business rules. An entity can be an object with methods, or it can be a set of data structures and functions. It doesn’t matter so ...
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Order Management Microservice design pattern
I have question on how to design an order management microservice. An order has different workflow based on the previous state or based on the business needs. I'm guessing at some point cannot keep on ...
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Communication between two apps
I am thinking of creating two applications, one of which (App 1) will be in Django (DRF) and other (App 2)might be Django but might be another more lightweight framework (maybe Flask or plain Django ...
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Change architecture design to API to reduce coupling
I was reading articles about TDD and I found the following one. https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/03/03/TDD-Harms-Architecture.html
In order to answer this question I think someone should ...
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Undo/Redo with Command Pattern and Object Destruction
I'm developing a Command Pattern with Undo/Redo support. The environment is Unity C# but should be mostly language-agnostic.
My initial commands comprise of adding and removing objects to and from a ...
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Modernizing a legacy source control / deployment infrastructure
I've got a large, old application with a clunky, extremely manual deployment process (essentially, tribal knowledge combined with random scripts / build jobs scattered across servers). The application ...
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Some thoughts on the Repository pattern
Until this moment, I have seen a lot of variations and combinations of the Repository pattern, implementations that simply queried the required information, some used something like a mapper, some ...
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Architectural design for sending large amount of analytics data from production servers to s3 without impacting request performance
Lets say we have a server getting upto 1000 requests per second, serving them at p99 of 20ms (strong business case for not increasing this latency). The server gc parameters have been carefully tuned ...
