Questions tagged [design]
Questions about problem solving and planning for a solution through software design.
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Is it okay to have a class where some attributes won't always be used?
I'm designing an app which use a Knowledge Base filled with rules.
Depending on the context some rules will be applicable and others will not.
I need to get first the list of the applicable rules and ...
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What is a good way of satisfying open/closed principle in this case
I have a class that looks like this:
class MyClass
# takes an array of actions
def initialize(actions)
@actions = actions
end
def act
@actions.each {|a| a.do}
end
end
class ...
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Using rabbitMQ for an order management system
I am building an e-commerce app that allows you to buy products from an online store. I am struggling to understand if using a queue will be helpful. if so, how can I make use of it effectively?
Let'...
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Make a class depends on its own ports instead of injecting dependency interfaces
I just have an idea about dependency management in Spring IOC environment that seems to be better than the typical approach, but I am not sure because I can't find any references or example out there ...
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In TDD, should we specifiy all classes to implement before start coding
My team is interested to apply TDD in our next software project. We have a discussion about how many details should be specified in design specs before the developers start coding.
Some of us propose ...
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What is the best model to catch DB side error?
We have a web application that all update, insert and DB operation procedure handle via SQL Server DB 2017. What is the best way to handle and get error (in Web-app or SQL server error handler?). for ...
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How to separate responsibilities of a shared entity
Suppose I have game achievement class that stores achievement information like name, popup message, etc.
class GoldMedal implements GameAchievement {
@Override
String getName() { ... }
@...
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Interface for abstract base class [duplicate]
I'm planning an application in C# which has a feature of sending messages.
ATM I'm doing the non-businesslogics and frameworking stuff.
The idea was to make an abstract base class which is inherited ...
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How can I optimize an alert system that processes 1000 requests / hour?
I am building a solution where IoT-devices send in measurement-data to an API that's hosted on AWS. For each measurement-type the user can set a threshold value; that when reached will trigger an ...
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Running medium duration critical distributed jobs every minute
I have the following requirement:
There are about a 100 recurring jobs that needs to run every one minute.
This job has an IO intensive phase, followed by a CPU intensive phase, followed again by ...
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JDBC Connection Url Logging - Security Risk
In one of the existing batch process codebase, I can see a practice of JDBC Connection String is getting logged and also persisted. Logging or Persisting a JDBC Connection String alone may not be a ...
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track user actions on UI and store them in the database
I have the web application that provides user with the interface to edit its character. When user makes some changes and saves them, I store it as delta in MongoDB. UI and backend communicate via REST....
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HashMap versus Object ? Which one is better to finally generate JSON output with KEY and VALUE
I do have this use case.
callers(APIs in same microservice or different microservices) wants to report different KEYS and VALUES as an audit as part of their methods.
There is a high possibilities ...
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How to manage cart details across various devices
Recently I was asked in a interview to implement to e-commerce site .
One of the requirement was to maintain cart details across various devices .(i.e) if user adds a book from his iPhone , and when ...
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MVC Controller calling UoW (unit of work) directly instead of going through Service Layer
Currently im injecting my Unit of Work inside the controller.
I figured out that in most of the designs, controllers calls the service layer and service calls the repository/DAL layer.
Most of the ...
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How to implement a partial resource rest api?
I first posted this question on stackoverflow but I think, it as more it's place here.
In order to limit the size of my REST API answers, I want to implement the Google performance tip: using the ...
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Design approach for extending class functionality - Embedded C++
For my company i am refactoring our embedded C/C++ code base to increase re-usability for commonly used functionality. Currently i am refactoring our command line interface but i ran into a design ...
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handle server shutdown while serving http request
Scenario : The server is in middle of processing a http request and the server shuts down. There are multiple points till where the code has executed. How are such cases typically handled ?. A typical ...
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Authorization and Audit on models in MVC architecture
What are the best practices to extend Authorization to the Model layer if in a monolith MVC application (i.e rails) you have other entry-points than just the Controller? I.e background jobs, or the ...
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How can I track questions and decisions for each of multiple report columns?
For a report with 25 fields, there are a lot of decisions to be made for every column. Tracking them in a wiki, like what's below, drew complaints that the final field values couldn't be scanned ...
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Layered architecture - what's the best way to share data?
I'm developing a project (.net core) which is still in its very initial stages. For now, I've divided the solution into multiple projects each of which represents a layer. For ex: Project.Web (react/...
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Implementation event-based game server architecture
I'm trying to develop a game server in Netty using an event-based approach where incoming events are dispatched to the correct game rooms, but I'm having some trouble with managing my world state. My ...
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Controller or application service making HTTP Requests
I'm in the school of thought of 'thin controllers', and love to push logic down into services and the domain models. However, I'm wondering if my controller should be making an HTTP Request to another ...
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What are possible benefits of using a class instead of a function here?
I often see classes of this form:
class Thingy {
public Thingy( /* some arguments here */ ) {
// Initialize some member variables.
// Maybe do some other things that
// ...
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Algorithm for Parking Space Allocator System
In my office, there are 200 employees who come to the office in their car. But my parking space has slots for parking 160 cars only. Now I want to design and develop an application that issues parking ...
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Architecture for remote data collection using MySQL
I am working through a MySQL design issue. I have a server with a database of phone numbers used in nuisance calls, like robocallers. I also have remote clients that are provisioned. I want the remote ...
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How should I design database, where I have 30 users, each who needs full access to their data?
I work for something like a consulting company. I have a web application that I built for one client. Now around 30 other clients want about the same product. The problem is, I don't know where to put ...
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API Race conditions
I have an API in which we expect a emailID and a certain deal data.
The case is we want to keep the dealId and contactId(email) to be unique.
Creating a deal requires data insertion in multiple ...
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Extent of Administrator Capabilities: HR and Design Logistics?
So I am developing an employee management application on behalf of a company and am concerned about the extent of rights and capabilities that are to be bestowed upon registered administrator accounts....
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What is the right way to orchestrate long running batch jobs?
I have a long running (3-4 hours long) monthly batch job that is scheduled to run on AWS with Python as it's implementation language. There are multiple python scripts which essentially needs to run ...
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Usage of composition relationship between two class in UML
I'm having quite a difficulty with what i think would suit a Patient class and a Record class in UML
Basically the Record class stores the patient's information such as name, vitals, gender, age and ...
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Advantages of using a message broker for scaling websocket client-to-client communications
I'm designing a system where pairs of clients need to exchange messages proxied by a backend service. My initial plan was to use websockets and have the clients connect to a single websocket server, ...
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Library with different runtime behaviour based on usage history (design question) [closed]
I want to design a hash table library that keeps usage statistics and based on how it is used will use different implementations at runtime. For example use a certain implementation for small size ...
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Functional Approaches to Serializing Objects to Variable-length Byte Array Output
I have a large number of record types derived from a binary format specification. So far, I've already written a computation expression builder that let’s me read structures from the files easily:
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How to avoid Super User account from business?
I have developed a package program 3 tiers architecture. Persistence layer is developed by using Repository Pattern and Entity Framework 6 Code First Approach.
This package program has many features ...
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Design optimal read operation in my service
---- Description
I'd like to optimize read operation in my service. It has basically put and get methods.
On put I accept some numbers in a string format and put them into thread-safe cache with ...
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Object Oriented Design: Repositories and Inheritance
I have an OO design concern. Let's say my models as following:
class Account {}
class LocalAccount extends Account {}
class SocialAccount extends Account {}
These Account entities are persisted and ...
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How to write a class that uses other classes but needs the same functionality - should I just wrap around the methods?
I want to create a class ProcessHandler for Windows that pretty much uses the WINAPI.
The class ProcessHandler should be able to scan memory, emulate keyboard and mouse, needs some DLLInjector, some ...
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How to model workflows
I'm building a helpdesk-type system, where there are:
Customer - can submit/resubmit tickets;
Manager - can review submitted tickets, assign to developers (one ticket to multiple developers), review ...
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Ideas for designing a system for processing status updates [closed]
Given that this question is related to my work, I will simplify what I need to do. The system consists of 4 primary types of statuses (internally, we call them events):
Working, not operating ...
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Should we have one class for each responsibility?
Consider an Eg. of Library Management System, we can have a design where in a student can search for a book based on it's title from the list of books using a function, something like below (in c++)
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Syncing two Notifications and Merging them Into One
I am running into this issue:
Suppose that there are two independent services, A and B, and both process messages from C.
Suppose that I have a service X that needs to know if a message m from C was ...
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What is the best way of implement a virtual world like a garden? [closed]
I want to develop a virtual garden with a lot of kind of insects like ants, bees, etc...
For example, if I want to create an area of 10x10m².
I can implement this with ArrayList<ArrayList<...
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Does the Open and Close Principle relate to renaming a class [duplicate]
My coworker and I have having an argument. The Open and closed principle is defined as:
A module will be said to be open if it is still available for extension. For example, it should be possible ...
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How to (or should I) refactor RxJS nested subscriptions with intermediate return value?
I hope this fits more here than SO because it is mostly about code design than making it work. Also, this is not tied to RxJs, but more to the reactive paradigm. (TypeScript tag is only added to make ...
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Architecture design for Linux administrative interface
I've developed an IoT device utilising OpenWrt so my design needs run a on a shoe-string budget of resources.
I need to be able to push small amounts of data, up to 300bytes to my app on a very ...
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Third-party API wrapper in Java: how to design
Suppose, there's a site that provides an API, such as this:
Users post questions, answers on that site
You can make GET and
POST calls
There are two types of authentication: weak (only gives
read ...
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Does splitting a potentially monolithic application into several smaller ones help prevent bugs? [closed]
Another way of asking this is; why do programs tend to be monolithic?
I am thinking of something like an animation package like Maya, which people use for various different workflows.
If the ...
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Angular class design dilemma
I'm trying to set up a good class diagram for my Angular application, however I have a problem figuring out how to solve the following situation:
I created a base Link class that can be used anywhere ...
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How to get a decoupled design without injecting repositories inside entities
I am facing the following situation:
I have to develop a system that has to calculate the price of a car so i need to calculate the prices of all the Pieces that make up the car and then total them.
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