Questions tagged [design]
Questions about problem solving and planning for a solution through software design.
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How can independent game-modules block system-wide behaviour
We've stumbled at an inconvenient design in a game and wondering, whether there is nothing simpler. The background needs some explaining so I'm sorry for the wall of text.
The setting
We have a ...
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How to cache multiple version of site [on hold]
I have a site with feed of user notes, and i want to show to users only top 100 notes (paginated by 10 per page). Every note has some tags (like subreddits on reddit), and every user can add some tags ...
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Updating an entity and many relationships: database vs application layer
We are working on a transformation project
It has records in table entityA and entityB, which has a relation entityAB.
We need to delete records in table entityA and recreate them with some other ...
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Domain Models with complex properties construction
According to this article: Using Ids in Domain Models is not a good practice.
We should reference the entire domain model instead.
In this case, when we want to provide only Getters for our ...
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How to automatize report emails generated on front? [on hold]
I have an angular application connected to a backend php API.
Im currently generating PPTX report in angular app because we need to generate a nicely designed HTML and CSS report, but new client need ...
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Design Review: Randomly generated primary keys in database [on hold]
Problem:
In my web application entities have unique IDs, and for some type of entities(e.g. user, order etc.), the IDs are visible to users via URLs. MySQL is used for storing the entities.
Using ...
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What sort of data limit would make sense for pulling down all data vs autocomplete/pagination via ajax?
Imagine a page with an autocomplete textbox on it, to get Customer.
I am wondering what sort of limit for record size makes sense in this day and age regarding whether all the customers should be ...
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Handling errors in looper/event loop interface
I have a C++ class that spawns a thread that contains an event loop of sorts and the class provides an API to query the list of events that have occurred since the last call, i.e something like std::...
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Where would you handle exceptions: controller, service, repository?
I have been having this dilemma from time to time whenever I have to design or start a new project from scratch.
I particularly like how Spring framework is organised in terms of classic software ...
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Incorporate a background job enqueue endpoint in a REST API
To exchange data between our standalone frontend application and the backend API, we currently have a REST API, with standard endpoint to list/create/update/destroy ressources with a consistent naming ...
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA): One Database or Multiple Databases?
In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), should there be One Single Database "with the share as much as possible philosophy" or Multiple Databases by Service/functional area?
I know in Microservices, ...
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What is a good strategy for managing PubSub subscriptions
I am working with Reddis but this could apply to any PubSub implementation. Essentially we are trying to implement an event system using Reddis's PubSub capabilities.
As an example UserA creates a ...
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Application Structure and how to structure Business rules
I am building a cli application in php that keeps track of when people within an organisation should get a birthday present.
The application takes an input text file containing a list of names and ...
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Venue Reservation System Logic Approach/Clarification
I hope this is the right place to ask since this is a programming related question.
I’m developing a venue reservation app (similar to booking.com) and am almost done however I have 1 request for ...
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Should one make the database calls in the constructor or method of a class?
Take the following instance for example:
CreditCardApplication class
public class CreditCardApplication
{
public int Id { get; set; }
public string FirstName { get; set; }
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How to design a system that can operate and replay its functions call stack?
I am writing a processor for the Citation Style Language (CSL) in JavaScript.
Before I explain what my problem is, I must give some context first:
CSL is an XML specification for describing how to ...
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How to associate tree nodes with other objects before they have unique identifiers
I've been thinking about a simple software design problem. Imagine I am writing a web application to edit a tree of objects. Each node of this tree has an ID property that is filled in when the node ...
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Contract based programming with verifications
I have a large project that is build contract based, where all functions verify input parameters and return values. But there are also cases where they for example verify that a call to a function is ...
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Walking a graph without recursion
I'm working on a class that receives a relational EDM/data model (e.g. a SQL DB or OData API manifest) and performs a couple tasks on them (not necessarily at the same time, could be two separate runs)...
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How to approach large amounts of data to be stored and mapped?
I am developing an iOS application that plots a large number of locations on a map, I have selected a data structure that is suitable for the pins on the map, though I am stuck on an approach for the ...
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Force State changing of an Object only from Holder
Suppose I have a Button class with a color attribute.
I also have a Canvas class which stores all Buttons.
Every time a color is being changed, some side action must take place (in this example, for ...
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What motivates the design of the root Object type in Java and C#?
In Java and C#, all classes derive from the root class Object (java.lang.Object and System.Object respectively).
In both languages/libraries this class comes with a set of methods that are inherited ...
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Most readable way of generic views placement
What are your suggestions on placing many generic views?
Let's consider a classic situation where I have many generic views for CRUD for given models. What is the best way to place them in views.py?
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Class diagram for electric guitar and bass
Hi I was recently asked this in an interview to represent a 6 string guitar and a 4 string bass in class structure. I am still new to software design and analysis so was not able to complete the ...
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Landing API Requests
I think this question is simple, but I'm not often designing APIs and so I haven't confronted it: How far should we go to adhere to the single responsibility principle?
Let's say we are implementing ...
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What is better: Concrete class with Enums or subclasses implementing an Interface?
Suppose for example, there could be multiple types of vehicles. And in this scenario, only the speed and how many people can seat in the vehicle matters.
Would it be better to have a concrete class, ...
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What is the function of the special directory(named debian) to the project design?
I am reading a github project:
you see there is a directory(debian) in there, what the function of it?
I have browsed the directory, there seems have some configuration files:
shadowsocks/debian/...
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Develop based on my current requirements only? [duplicate]
I've a service called Claims-Service which has following signature:
IClaimsService { EnsureClaim(claimType, userId) }
It queries database to see if the claim is present in any of my roles or not.
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Reliable data synchronisation between several systems
We have several systems that hold the same data in different databases. The requirement is to keep the data synced in as much reliable way as possible. Performance isn't a concern because we don't ...
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Architecture for independent modules writing in the same database
Let's say I have a database with a table called "invoices".
Then I have a web application where users can manually create invoices against said table. I also have a desktop application that can ...
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How do decentralised systems deal with all nodes being killed
In relation to DHT's (distributed hash tables), how do decentralised systems deal with all nodes disconnecting and thus having its routing meta data invalidated? i.e with the implementation of DHT's ...
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Refactoring: Replacing a temporary variable with a query. Is this code example bad practice?
Before I ask my question, I want to note that this is not my own code; it comes from the Refactoring Guru website:
I often find myself using the code on the left, and I have one primary motivation ...
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What is the right design for UI apps backed by Cloud services like AWS
I am looking for some general architectural guidance about designing good cloud apps, primarily using AWS. For the sake of argument, lets say it's a single page app, written in JS, hitting a couple ...
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Help designing a product model with vast amount of properties
I've been asked how to re-design a legacy system by a relative for a company that builds custom chairs. On their website you can customize your chair in about 30 permutations : chair type, material, ...
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Architecture for message processing with scheduling, at scale
I have to design the architecture of a system that processes messages in a distributed manner. If this were the only requirement, I would use a message queue like Kafka and distribute the work with ...
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Can systems have only one use case?
I'm building a news aggregation system that collects news articles from several websites, then classifies them into categories, tags them with keywords and saves them to a database. All actions are ...
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Seperation of concerns: Submitting a form to create an email, store it and send it
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I have a workflow that has an email form. The requirements are the following: A user completes the form that contains email fields and submits it.
If everything goes well then an email model ...
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Is my understanding of modern IDEs autosave feature naive? [duplicate]
Long time ago I learned that text files are not like Random access Files, i. e., adding or updating info at the beginning of a text file involves moving all the rest of the file "forward" (or ...
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Is Template design pattern a bad practice due to inheritance?
I have been using Template Design pattern in my code for implementing CRUD procedures for different resources.
There are some steps which are same for many resources and some which need some addition/...
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Single Use Token without a database [closed]
Is there a way to generate a single use token for password recovery, without using a database?
This is because, I have an application that doesn't have a database, and doesn't store or has access to ...
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How to store relational data belonging to different client customers?
My users will be businesses with a small number of accounts each: e.g. Business #1 with 3 users, Business #2 with 5 users, etc.
I am trying to determine the best way to organise the relation (on ...
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Passing data through public members
I am working with an existing numerical model implemented in C++, and I don't have much of a background in software design. This model reads in many (~100) of structured text files, performs numerous ...
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How to compose load balancing and circuit breaking for external data source
So I have this issue. My website uses data, that is scraped from a different site - sports results. This data can update in relatively random intervals, but I do not care if my data is a bit stale - ...
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Can we completely avoid Illegal States?
Is there are way we can completely avoid illegal states rather then throwing an IllegalStateException when a method is called when it should not be?
For example:
public interface Process {
void ...
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Is it a good idea to use data structures(classes) provided by a dependency in our system?
I am building a new system, which I will call S, that needs to get some data from another system, which I'll name D. System D provides a client and a collection of classes(POJOs) to represent the ...
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What do you call a class that can be disabled [closed]
Is there a design pattern that fits this description? A factory that creates classes that can be disabled and enabled. The users of the class don't know if the functionality is enabled or disabled--...
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Design pattern for selecting data
I have implemented algorithm BFS(Breadth First Search) using a neighbors list ADT for scanning a graph and gathering information about it and answer questions.
I have function called BFS which ...
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Approach to handle network breakdowns in application dealing with database?
I have an application that writes data to database. In case of network breakdowns, the connection to database gets lost & my db queries freezes the whole application.
So, in order to make it ...
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Unit conversion of data
My team is developing a web application, where we have in the requirements to display the data in multiple unit which is set by the end user.
Where should we write down the unit conversion logic, on ...
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Designing a Social Network with Graph Databases
I am prototyping a social network as part of a project I am working on and want to learn the right way to do it as if it were for an industry leading company.
I've decided on implementing the social ...
