Questions tagged [design]
Questions about problem solving and planning for a solution through software design.
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What is the best way to desgin my api workflow?
I am building a bank management system using the microservices architecture. I have many microservices but I am going to talk about two. I have customer account service and transaction service. Let's ...
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How to prevent in house frameworks and libraries from becoming technical debt
My company develops many relatively small projects that a lot of times do the same things and have a similar structure. (e.g. read/write to a databse, data pre processing, building a query etc.). This ...
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Simple elevator algorithm that also accepts incoming requests [duplicate]
I need to implement a simple system that models the functioning of a single elevator. Now, I am aware of the SCAN algorithm (also called "elevator algorithm") and how it works, but I ...
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Elegant way to go about navigating between components in React
I'm busy creating a navigation flow on the startup page in a SPA, and I'm experimenting with different methods of going about navigating between components.
Here's an image to give you an idea of the ...
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Modules Design and Communication Between Them
I'm trying to design a monolithic application following DDD and clean code. Lets say I have Users, User Types, Products, Product Types and Purchases. I want to implement using different modules.
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Publish-subscribe inside a single application
I've been using the publish-subscribe pattern for a while for communicating devices and it works really well, making it easy to add extra services without touching the rest. I'm thinking of using it ...
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Should mocks used in unit tests represent entireties or subsets?
I was working on a unit test that has a mock object looking something like:
public class TestMock
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static {
Doodad a = new Doodad(0);
Doodad b = new Doodad(1);
Doodad c = ...
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Simplifying TryGet methods to execute logic
Sorry my title is terrible i couldn't think of a concise title to use.
I have a bit of code that needs to consume two quantities from two objects, this is done using a TryGet() type of method and the ...
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Java OOP Philosophy/Design: Mutable classes
I do know that the best practice these days is to model immutable classes in Java. An ex: below
// It makes sense to model this in an immmutable fashion
class 2DPoint {
private int x;
private int ...
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Design efficient real-time data subscription to reduce service workload
I am designing a service for a hobby app in JavaScript and looking for feedback on best way to design the service.
TickerService
Accepts an array of stock tickers. eg: ['AAPL', 'AMZN', ...]
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Does my View Model violate the Single Responsibility Principle? Or am I just used to toy examples from tutorials?
I am a very beginner writing one of my first webapps. I'm using FastAPI and I'm stuck on the logic of creating an endpoint that has to do a lot of things before it returns something back to the user. ...
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Is the difference between "changesets" and "snapshots" in version control primarily a space-time tradeoff?
There are many version control systems out there, and they tend to use one of the following models to store separate versions of a repository:
Snapshots - each version of your repository is stored in ...
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REST API designing resources for complex entities
I have an ASP.Net Core Web API where I am having difficulties designing the REST resources based on the EF Entities I have.
There are three entities that describe a Reservation. First, there is the ...
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When using composition when to favour wrapper methods?
When using composition, when should we favour wrapper methods? Let's say we have the classic car example.
public class Car {
private Battery battery;
//wrapper method
public void load(...
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Store static data in public folder as json file or directly in .js file?
I'm busy working on a website – somewhat new to this – and I don't quite know where I should store static data: in the public folder as a separate json file, or within the .js file as an object.
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Design of A Multithreaded Simulator
When designing my simulator, I have gotten stuck on 2 main design choices.
The simulator can be described as having X number of nodes (between 50 - 2000) that each need to independently do some ...
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Improve code design of legacy code [duplicate]
I'm working on a legacy project in java(struts 1 framework) and I want improve code design of it. Basically is a struts framework(jsp, form and actionControllers) on tip, linked to controller has a ...
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Validation in a simple DDD example
I'm doing a simple project that represents a CI Pipeline in a low scale. So I'm trying to model "the best way possible" to practice DDD.
Basically I have the following information:
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Handling recurring events
I have a application built with nodejs. It's hosted on AWS and uses postgres as the database. The application allows for users to create bookings. When a booking is created, an email is sent to the ...
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Updating data when fetching
Is it possible to fetch data and update it if a time constraint has been met? Originally, my implementation was a cron job that regularly updated the data in my PostgreSQL table every minute on the ...
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Class design: should I split responsibilities or should the class take care of itself?
I have a Curve class that has some CurveData inside as private member as well as getter functions for topics of interest (e.g. peaks, width and so). So the math logic of a curve is inside this class.
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Is it logically possible to consistently name commits in a VCS using an ordered sequence?
Imagine you're creating a completely new version control system, like Git, Mercurial, SVN etc. from scratch. Rather than identifying commits by SHA hashes, you identify them using an ordered sequence ...
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Polymorphism: Overriding properties versus overwriting attributes
In polymorphism, your base class defines an interface. The inheriting classes fill in the data for that interface. The key is that the interface remains the same.
Given that, if your interface is ...
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How to implement an approval queue for created/updated/deleted records?
Say I have 5 different types of records which can be created, updated, and deleted. Each time one of these actions are performed, an item is added to a global queue which people need to look through ...
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Which design to follow to override a flag from a jar in the application using it?
At my workplace, there are lot of Java/Spring/Spring-Boot based applications which have a common jar added as maven dependency.
This common jar is always used as a SNAPSHOT dependency and I am not ...
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Designing class for fixed-size data structure backed by ArrayList
Say we want to write a Java class that represents a fixed-size list. Let's call it Chunk.java (as in, it represents a chunk of data to be processed or sent somewhere). My implementation of this class ...
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Is it bad practice to have too many direct subclasses?
Let's say we have an undo/redo system and we have a superclass storing an object that should later form a tree of the attributes that can be undone/redone.
This would require every class that should ...
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How do we logically divide a Chatbot app meant to support both Slack & Microsoft Teams
We are building bot application that suppose to support both Slack & Teams. Both Slack & Team has a single Web hook endpoint which makes the app code tightly coupled with them and hard to make ...
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React function that opens and closes form in which user selects some data?
I am developing sales invoice form in ReactJS as SPA application, which communicates with API/DB (Laravel).
I have the following use case:
user clicks on one button (e.g. Select Person, Select Good);
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Having a front end grid component fetches its metadata from the backend, is this a "bad" strong coupling?
The idea is that for each resource we want to dispaly in a grid, there will be one endpoint for data and another for metadata.
The metadata endpoint will bascially return a list of columns and their ...
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More efficient FIFO inventory calculation?
I am implementing a basic ledger system for which I want to calculate costs based on the FIFO system. Is there a more clever method than an O(n) search?
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Suppose I have two lists of ...
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Design for hardware UIs
What is a suitable software design approach for handling user input from hardware buttons, where the function of each button depends on state?
I'm designing a musical instrument which has a lot of ...
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Multi-threaded design for continuous messages analysis
Since I don't have much knowledge of multi-threaded design and English is not my native language, I don't know how to exactly describe my problem.
Let's say I have a mini-program in school, which has ...
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Best Practices for Designing Around Presence/Absence of Home Button on Tablets?
Older iPads used to have a home button:
Newer iPads don't have it. They have a line on the screen you're supposed to swipe up to get to the home screen:
Now if an app has a row of links or buttons ...
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Database design - how to model database tables for similar objects - booleans / enums / inheritance / archived vs active
I only recently started to work with backends. My database is supposed to store information about maven-like artifacts. There are going to be applications and configuration artifacts. Now those ...
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Are microservices unfit for our domain logic
I work in a software company with a single product, a 25 year old monolith application (1.2m lines of code) handling all HR related data (employments, salary, collective agreements etc.).
I've been ...
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REST API design: how to represent users joining and leaving groups?
I'm designing a REST API in which users create groups that other users join and leave.
A user creates a group by making a request like this:
POST /groups
Request body:
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SOAP client app design approach - many endpoints with similar contracts
I have a question regarding the code design for a client application that will connect to external SOAP services. Basically, I need to write a client application in .NET that will connect to external ...
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Is it possible to predict last 3 digits of a closing stock price? [closed]
So, i just start learning in AI field and i want to develop my skill more. So, i just curious is it possible to predict last 3 digits of a closing stock price? which mean the output result will run ...
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How to design a table component that stores data and also includes HTML code
I am developing a front end application given a back end with some API.
The application has two similar views. Both views make use of a big table that's also used as a form . For example, in the ...
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Microservices - create post for logged in user
I am working on a small project with microservices architecture in Spring Boot. As to not make unnecessary calls to users-microservice, I have duplicated some necessary User data (id, name, summary, ...
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Design a Program which Forwards Work Pieces to Corresponding Modules
I am working on a program that will listen to a queue of incoming message and will process each message differently depending on the metadata of that message. The messages must be processed in order ...
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Best way to store key-value pairs of different types in c++?
I'm reading values from a (PE) binary file. The values have a known length and position in the file and are stored with no padding (right next to each other). They store various types (int, long, ...
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Validation in both controller and my service classes?
I use the Laravel framework.
I've got controllers, like CustomerActivityController, and I've got a service layer with services like CustomerActivityService.
Say I want to create a new customer ...
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Refactor conditional multiple AND OR operations? [duplicate]
I have a piece of code where two objects (incoming request object and a profile object) are to be checked for matching conditions.
So the first method is as below where I check whether the profile ...
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Should I store non-editable items lists in a database?
Relational database is mostly used for storing editable user data.
But how about storing non-editable lists of information? Possible examples are:
GUI-related: main menu items, selectbox options, ...
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Use aggregation like LSP in C++
I was reading about LSP (Liskov Substitution Principle) in a book called Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design. I have a question regarding how this would be ...
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Properly "exposing" a variable from a class in Python
I have a Launcher class that manages (check if they're alive and if not respawns them, also starts, etc.) Clusters which are processes launched through the multiprocessing Discord module.
To post ...
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WPF Best way to create viewmodel from another viewmodel
Often I want to open a new window from within some view.
I see opening a window as view logic. So I don't want code in my viewmodel that creates/opens/changes windows or anything else that interacts ...
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Is it a good idea to use database sequential id as a key in external key-value storage?
I use Postgres database to store user information. Some of that information is sensitive so it was decided to store that information in Vault. The user table in Postgres has id's generated by a ...
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