Questions tagged [design]
Questions about problem solving and planning for a solution through software design.
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Using Decorator Pattern For Debugging
So I keep being asked to add new metrics and log certain debug information to my current project. Now, as one would expect, this has start cluttering the code too much. From what I have read and seen ...
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Frontend development: pattern libraries and different frontend technologies
We are setting up a pattern library.
It's use is on the one hand to document and display our UI elements in a web view. On the other hand, it should also be the place where components are built. The ...
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Architecture of a real-time collaboration application [closed]
I would like to build an application similar to Google Docs that allows for real-time document collaboration and presentation. In Google docs, nearly everything is real-time; from document creation to ...
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async notifications delivery
i have some back end service that is in charge of sending notifications to my end users via mapping between some identifier to their real web sockets.
currently the service works in a sync way, ...
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How to design the interface method for the following case?
I am making a Snmp agent. In order to pass information to this Snmp agent I need to periodically extract data from two different sources and there can be more sources in future. I was designing the ...
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Instant Messaging with WebSocket
I am trying to develop an Instant messenger using WebSocket.
I have multiple instances of my servers running (say server1 , server2). Two users(say userA , userB) who wants to chat with each other. ...
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Determining the service calls within the API based on the each consumer request
Currently, I have a rest API service which serves to many different consumers. One of the endpoints of API is for retrieving an order. Inside a single application, I am making 5 different service ...
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Questions about the state of ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) [closed]
I'm looking for a little advice on a project I am considering. It's in the realm of OCR/ICR and I'm wondering how accurate ICR has gotten? There are obviously commercial solutions within Azure and ...
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In a tennis scoring program, what would be a good approach for storing and presenting both standard games and tiebreaks?
In a tennis match, each game has the possible scores of Love, 15, 30, 40, or Advantage. This could be modeled as a dictionary [0: "Love", 1: "15", 2: "30", 3: "40", 4: "Advantage"] or enumerated type ...
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What to Use In Abstract Factory Producer to Choose Concrete Factory? [duplicate]
So to create a concrete factory that extends from an abstract factory class, I usually create a 'producer' class to determine what abstract factory to use.
For example:
public abstract class ...
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DB design while designing the system
Recently we had a discussion if rough DB schema (high level tables and columns) design should be part of system design phase or not.
We have two confronting approaches in the company.
Let's assume ...
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How to keep components modular/independent in a layered architecture?
Lets say we have a layered architecture where A->B->C are three different layers. Function calls are passed from A to C and data is passed up from C to A.
I think in this case A will have a reference ...
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Feature toggle: How to toggle without spreading same toggle all over the code?
Considering a feature needs changes at many places in different modules of the software: UI, business logic, backend, etc.
What is a good approach to do so?
We are using dependency injection and ...
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modelling reusable react components with state stored in redux [closed]
I want to model a component in react, who's state is stored in redux, but I want to be able to make multiple instances of that component. The best I can come up with is to encapsulate all the ...
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Global variables and common block management in Fortran
Background
The high level overview of my situation is described here. I am breaking it apart into smaller, specific questions, such as this one, regarding extensive use of global variables in a ...
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How to formally figure out the best design based on the informal user's description of their needs?
I am to write a piece of software to a friend of my uncle's, but I don't exactly know all the elements that are needed to fulfil the user's needs, so I can't begin to formulate a design yet. Since the ...
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How to modernize large legacy Fortran program? [duplicate]
Problem Background
Recently, I joined a government agency as a software engineer/scientist/analyst. Previously, worked in software industry - gained 3 years of software engineering experience at ...
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What would be the best way to dynamically download an external dependency at runtime? [duplicate]
I have a library that depends on a PDB being present for a file present on the running OS. This PDB is hosted officially on the Microsoft servers, and the version needed will change between OS updates ...
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Deploying a Customer Facing Enterprise App
I have a customer-facing enterprise app. (like AWS). Customers specify config on the app and relevant infrastructure is spun up along with my software on it. My CloudOps team, like the AWSCloudOps ...
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Seeking advice on technologies for NoSQL application
I have a basic level of C++, beginner familiarity with DB concepts, and dabbled with MySQL. My goal is to create a program that will provide me with a deeper understanding of programming and use of ...
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Exposing implementation details to tests
I have created a class that implements behavior which is difficult to test without some intimate knowledge of internal state. I'd like not to clutter the class's public API with accessors for this ...
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Where to put the server in my Messaging System UML diagram?
I try to design a client application for a messaging application. The client can send and receive messages, the client can connect/disconnect.
My problem is that I don't know how to incorporate the ...
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Alternative to mass Try Catch blocks for my logic
Currently I'm working on creating something with the following general structure. I want to call 4 different APIs in sequential order (the results of one are needed for the next one). If one throws an ...
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Is it a common pattern to put create/update/archive as one process?
Traditionally it's assumed that we should treat create read update delete as separate concepts. However, I have noticed that the following pattern seems more usable for certain contexts [create, ...
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Refactoring and simplify this infrastructure building code [closed]
I have a piece of code (a Facade) that creates every single infrastructure component on aws.
private void synthesizeStack() {
Deployer<Vpc> vpcDeployer = new VpcDeployer(this);
Deployer&...
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What's the prefer way when validate a “set” semantic input JSON array parameter in a blog website, silently ignore it or report an error?
I am developing a blog website, for each post, it has a list of tags, just like stackoverflow.
There is no doubt that in the server side, i will expose a api like blog/edit to the client side, and ...
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Customizing module per client
let's say I have 3 customers A, B and C.
I have application (whatever what this application is) I have front-end (let's say in angular2) and back-end (in Spring).
On the beggining I have one common ...
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Angular FormBuilders and Unit Testing Practice
What is the unit testing best practice of testing Angular Forms and Formbuilders?
Should I validate the formbuilder testing every member, by patching values onto it, test min/max validators by ...
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Inline HTML elements don't allow setting “width” - why is that?
In HTML/CSS, inline elements, such as <span>, do not support explicitly setting their width via the width CSS property.
This is confusing to many developers, as questions like "Setting the ...
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Handle multiple similar structured XMLs in a Java project
We have a case scenario in our project where we are provided with a set of XSDs. These XSDs we converted to Java Pojos with the help of JAXB. After this we were suppose to update few values in the ...
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Basic advice on structuring python project [closed]
I've been using python for several years as a non-developer writing scripts to help business processes. I'm in a new position (still non-developer) and would like to adopt more rigorous coding ...
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Is this SRP violation?
Consider I have a class which represents a tree element. An element can be changed, inspected children elements can be added to it (say trough the add() method). But also I have a class which contains ...
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How to design a fast way to `unarchive` file using python?
Assuming the following scenario:
A python application that receives file and process that file trying to understand what the file format( any type of data/compressions/archives/packages/mounts/etc ),...
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Factory/Strategy Pattern for objects that require different pieces of data
I'm facing some difficulty with designing a factory and/or strategy pattern for building out EmailTemplates. IMO this seems like the design pattern to go with, but I feel like the path I'm going down ...
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Would it be possible to abstract multi-threading ability for programs not originaly designed for such?
Would it be feasible to provide (or further) multi-core threading ability for programs that weren't originally designed for such?
And doing so by creating a "virtual" CPU core (or for i7's with ...
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Fail-fast design vs. limiting constructor logic
In any programming task, my preference is to write fail-fast code. That doesn't seem to be too controversial. However, I've also seen many developers say that constructors should do as little as ...
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Am I using namespaces wrong?
I'm obsessed with organization - it's probably the real reason why I enjoy coding. So I namespace everything. But I'm just curious if I'm doing it wrong by being redundant.
Consider this, which I ...
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Double way parent child relationship in Django
I am building an app to register and update children information, this information is to be provided by their tutors. Every child can have multiple tutors, and a tutor can be a tutor for multiple ...
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Technical architecture of platform on .Net Core
I'm designing a platform that will run robots developed by others.
Basically anyone could implement a IAutonomousAgent and register the implementation on the platform. At runtime, the platform will ...
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Independence axiom and ideal design explained
I am studying a book about software design called: Nonfunctional Requirements in Systems Analysis and Design which talks about the Axiomatic Design Methodology.
This methodology has two axioms. One ...
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Is it logical to use dependency injection in .net core library project? [closed]
Earlier, we serve with web service but we decide to use dll methods. Because served products are on same machine with common database. So we start to create a library with .net core. This library will ...
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Multiple functions assuming value or check value in each function
Let's say I have an object A with a public method bool Foo(arg). Foo is potentially a complex algorithm with nested rules (if's). I don't want Foo to have all the code, I want several intermediate ...
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Handling Failed Rollbacks
To give an arbitrary example, let's say that I'm storing two objects, Item and Box, in the same database.
These objects have a one-to-one relationship.
Item has the following properties:
ID (string)...
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Is it practical to pass function pointers to a separate class to avoid additional includes?
In my program I've included the header for an external library (GLFW) in my Main class. Everything I need to use that library for can be handled in my main class, with the exception of two sneaky ...
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Should vanilla solutions be avoided in Spring web applications?
I am making a Java and Spring webapp that scrapes data from a web and then publishes it through an API. Some of the raw scrapped data is in the form of Set<SomeObject> which I then convert to a ...
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Designing interpretable/maintainable python code that use pandas DataFrames?
I am working with/writing a good amount of code in python using pandas dataframes. One thing I'm really struggling with is how to enforce a "schema" of sorts or make it apparent what data fields are ...
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How to keep user inputs consistent with assumed inputs to slow computations at the backend?
Background:
I'm writing a clinical trials simulator. The user defines future trial options, eg a trial with 100 placebo patients, 200 treatment patients, "optimistic" outcome scenario, etc. There can ...
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Sequence diagram: explicitly show websocket creation?
I am trying to draw up a sequence diagram to show how my web client will interact with my backend over a websocket connection.
I am using a websocket middleware to manage the stream connections.
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Application Design For Given Scenario
Given the below scenario, how should you architect this application to take advantage of modern standards/technology?
You are tasked to build out an application where users can login to view data ...
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How to increase difficulty of intercepting resources downloaded from developer console
I have a web application that allows user view our data that front-end in JavaScript fetches the data via a Restful request to back-end, then render it in the application. The size of each data can ...
