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Connect a web-app to to the back-end message queue

We are currently looking into dividing our back-end in multiple services using a message queue (RabbitMQ). Having a message queue suddenly gives us the possibility to update the web-app freely, but do ...
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Handling events internally in server

I'm trying to make sense of how to handle events in my server in a neat way. I'm creating a Whatsapp chatbot that receives messages via webhooks at a certain endpoint on my server. It doesn't seem ...
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Request and response validation

I am currently working on a project using Flask to make REST apis, blablabla. But, working with request validation tools that we use, I am thinking of whether it would be necessary to validate the ...
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Building an app+backend with extraneous functionality for an existing web shop. How to handle authentication on the backend?

This is an architecture question as I've been asked by an existing web store to build a mobile app (they don't have a mobile app) that provides extra functionality to the store, a web admin panel to ...
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Angular integration with back-end

We're developing a big project for our company, and they asked us to use Angular even though none of the devs have any considerable experience with it. The back-end is C#/.NET Core with ABP. My ...
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Client or API Gateway to perform authentication on backend?

An system called X wants to consume APIs from the backend called Y. There's a definition from the Systems Architecture Team that states that every request from the X to Y must go through the corporate'...
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What is the best way to design endpoints for a restful application?

I am a backend developer and I am writing a restful application. I have a question about how best to design the endpoints. I have a database table that stores values (I just provided an example) |id (...
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How to validate against changes to "illegal paths" in backend requests for complex data structures?

We are building a backoffice web application where people are making changes to an array of nested objects. Because of totally non relevant business reasons there are things that users cannot change ...
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To merge software solutions or not?

Software A is a Node/Express application using a MongoDB database. It is accessed mostly via RESTful endpoint by a mobile app built in RN and an admin dashboard via React web app. It also has a ...
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Notification system on app using Firebase

I have to build an app that manages orders between customers who submit the orders and riders who deliver them. Riders work in shifts, so when a customer submits an order, only the riders that are ...
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Integration Testing a dynamic backend

Our company creates financial software that integrates into a banking system backend. We're running into a lot of problems making changes to it without seemingly impacting another customer or another ...
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How to design my API that interacts with a third party API and persists to a database

I'm building a web app that will integrate with the Etsy REST API and persist information in a database for things like order information, listings, etc. Essentially a panel to manage Etsy orders and ...
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Good practices for frontend-backend communication

What are some good practices for handling communication between a frontend and a backend? From what I know in order to keep things loosely coupled you shouldn't just have your frontend have a ...
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Using Apache and PHP to provide Frontend, possible to use PHP also for backend?

I have a design question to all the programmers out there. Until now, I wrote most of my software in vb.NET oder C#, especially if I needed a Frontend. Now I would like to have a Frontend which is ...
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How to calculate user activity

I am working on a Xamarin.Forms PCL social media app project. People can like posts and comment on them which is saved in MySQL. I would like to add an activity page. What is the best way to ...
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Message Strings in Backend

Its ok to have hardcoded strings on backend? Example: Log.e("Error connecting to the database") The text "Error connecting to the database" should be hardcoded there? Or should it be in a separated ...
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